The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-10-02

ISM were lecturing the working class
on the evils of preparation for con-
flict and admonishing the trade
union membership to trust implicit
ly in the ability of the general coun-
Gil and other union officials to con-
vince the bosses and their govern
ment of the beauties of peace and
harmony and the milk of human
kindness.
These people are indeed wonder
full leaders of the working, class
into the slaughter house prepared
for them by the capitalist class.
The Use of a Workers State.
Nothing is more typical of the de-
based talk of the university drivel-
lers than Laski's attempt to assail
the Soviet Union with the charge
that it is like all other relationships.
Although professors of political
economy in Harvard, Oxford and
London University may be unable to
perceive the difference, the class
conscious worker will not cavail at
relationships alone or assail, anar-
chist fashion, all states, but will
ask: In whose interest does the
state function? Is it the dictator
ship of the working class or a die
tatorship of the capitalist class?
Likewise, it is a piece of intel
lectual dishonesty to talk idly about
some abstract hatred. While the in
tellectual retainers of Imperialism
may not be able to understand how
the dictatorship of the proletariat,
based as it is and must be, on the
forcible suppression of the former
eXploiters by the former exploited,
can realize any degree of fraternity,
the working class will be able to
understand perfectly well that there
can be no harmony between these
classes, that only by destroying ut
terly the base of the class power Of
capitalism can we ever speak Of
fraternity in any hope of its becom-
ing reality. AS long as slavery ex-
lists it is imperative that the revolu-
zionist preach an indomitable class
hatred, endeavor to implant in the
breast of the oppressed masses the
deepest contempt for capitalism and
all it's institutions and retainers I'M
til the oppressed of the world have
become welded together into an i'm
placable fighting force that will
scourge the oppressive system from
the face of the earth. Our frater-
nifty is that which is based upon
class solidarity.
That may be too realistic, too
stern, too brutal, for the gentlemen
of the university chairs, who fear
for their own hides, but it is his
torical necessity for the working
class. The revolutionist will not
listen to the teachings of slave re-
ligion to turn the other cheek" but
when someone strikes us on one
side of the face we will anrihilate
him if we can.
The prelude 70 society fit for
people to live in must be the deep
est hatred on the part of the work.
ers for their murderous exploiters.
And as for this twaddle about the
vanishing of civilization, let us re-
mind the professor that history also
is eloquent on that point and proves
that when a certain stage IF eco
nomic development is reached it is
cal able of surviving not merely revo-
luton, but even barbarian invasion,
as was the case when Rome fell be-
fore the invading hordes at the close
tc the fifth century and again at
the close of the rinth.
But then it is an old trick of the
defenders of a decadent system to
view its passing as the enI of the
world.
Only Real Democracy.
The insipid liberals pine for pure
democracy, embracing all classes,
without realizing, as Lenin said, that
the very conception of purity i'm
plies that human investigation has
been applied in narrow, one-sided
manner. ("The Collapse of the Sec
ond international" Lenin. Page DO,
S. L. P. BRITISH edition)
Here, again, arises that one ques-
ton that constantly plaques all lib
erals and fabians-the CLASS ques-
ton. In whose behalf and by whom
is democracy exercised? Then there
arises the next question: Which is
the more democratic, the capitalist
state or the workers state.
This answer to the erudite Oxford
gentleman will be left to Lenin:
TN capitalist society we have
democracy that is wretched,
curtailed, false; a democracy
only for the rich, for the minor
itx. The dictatorship of the
proletariat, the period of transit
ton to Communism, will, for the
u first time, produce democracy
for the people, for the majority.
side by side with the necessary
suppression of the minority con-
stituted by the former exploiters.
Communism alone is capable of
giving a really complete demo-
cracy." Estate and Revolu-
tion.)
When, through the democratic die
tatorship of the proletariat, we
have destroyed not only the capital
list class as class, but destroyed
] also the very soil upon which it
springs there will then be no need
IF a state as a special instrument of