The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-02

to one or the other of the parties
of American imperialism. ..5.... ~,
But it is precisely from the above =
sources that the worst lying state !,
ments about the lack of democracy
and the suppression of the working
class in the U.S.S.R. come. Citizen b
ship in the Soviet Union is granted
only to those who perform, useful 3
labor. TITS exactly this fact, known
to all class enemies of the working
class, that arouses them to frenzy.
Workers and farmers in the U.S.S.R.
led by the Communist Party, thru
the Soviet form of government, rule !
one-sixth of the earth's. surface :
solely in the interests of the toiling
masses of the cities and agrarian q
districts.
One Land of Labor.
In no country in the world is the r
press so free-for workers and far
mers. 1t is not free for the REM
nants of the capitalist class or for
the dwindling remains of the ear
list aristocracy, or for landlords, or
for agents of imperialism. The entire
nress is the press of the masses. |
Through it, and through the mass
elections for all branches of govern
ment, the masses make war on all
evils which arise-and correct them.
Government officials receive the
same pay as skilled worker. In
some cases, as the wages and stan
dards of living of the workers are
constantly increasing - the only
country in the world in which this
is true-government officials re-
ceive even less than skilled workers.
All government officials mist an
swer to the workers and peasants
for their acts and the press, espe-
cially by means of worker CORES
pondence, carries on continually the
most mercfless criticism. The same
holds true of all factory managers,
executives and Communist Party
leaders. = $3.50 a.r
Writing of the Paris Commune,
Marx pointed out that it had deli
vered terrible blow to the govern
ment bureaucracy by placing the
income Of all officials on the same
basis as those Of workers and en-
phasized the fundamental revolu-
tionary character Of such step. In
the Soviet Union the beginning made
by the Communards has been carried
! to completion. In the same thesis
from which we quote at the begin
ming of this article Lenin says:
"The essence Of the Soviet pow
err consists in the fact that the
| continuous and unique basis of all
State machinery and public auth
GRITTY is constituted by the mass
organizations of exactly those
classes which were oppressed by
capitalism-the workers and semi
| proletarians, peasants not exploit
| ing hired labor and forced to sell
| at least fraction of their own
labor power. These very masses,
which even In the most democratic
bourgeois republics, though enjoy
ing equal rights in law, are still
kept in practice from all partici-
patton in political life and from
the enjoyment Of all democratic
liberties and rights are now
brought into permanent, unaSoid-
able, and, therefore, decisive,
touch with the democratic ad-
ministration of the State"
1.-THE equality Of all citizens, ir-
respective of sex, religion, race or
nationality, which was always and !,
everywhere promised, but never
carried out, by the bourgeois DEM
ocracy, and indeed never could be
carried out under capitalism, is
Immediately and amply realized I
by. the Soviet power, or, in other
words, by proIetarian dictatorship.
Only the dictatorship of the work
ers can achieve this equality, be-
cause they have no private pro-
perry. interest either in production
or in the struggle for distribution
and redistribution" my emphasis !
-B.D.l ''
I Genuine Democracy.
I This is the essence of working
class democracy expressed in the
words of the greatest leader of the
worlds working class. This is the
democracy that exists in the u. s.
S. r, This is the democracy that
establishes the seven-hour day while
in all other countries, "democratical-
lily" governed or otherwise, longer
working hours are being forced upon
the masses as part Of capitalist ra-.
tionalizatian and as part of the
preparation for new imperialist
world war.
Against the tremendous achieve
ments Of the Soviet power in the
last twelve years the lies of the
enemies of the worlds workers falls
shattered, The u. S. S. R., build
ing socialist society at a speed
which amazes and frightens the rob
Der governments of the other ma
tions,'i the fatherland of the work.
inc class. Knowing this, the work.
ling class and the colonial peoples
still more oppressed by imperialism,
will defend It. topether 9th ira paJ