The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-16
All Revolutionary Traditions Belong to the
Communist international

The month of March is replete with anniversaries sig
nfcant to the revolutionary labor movement
On March 49, 1871 ftyeight years ago the Paris Com
the first appearance history OF the dictatorship OF
the proletariat, proclaimed.
On March H. 1885, the great founder of the Communist
Party, Karl Marx. died.
On March Ia, 1917 the Russian car was overthrow.
From March to March T. 1919 occurred the first Con-
gress of the Third nternationathe Communist nterna
tionan Moscow which had become the capital OF the VIC
torious Russian proletarian revolution
All of these events of March inseparaby bound
together the history of the long struggle of the enaved
working for freedom And the lastnamed of these
eventshe founding of the Communist international just
ten years responsibilities the embodiment of the whole of
the revolutionary traditions that called to memory by
the other anniversaries
The revolution of the Paris working class which founded
the Commune was direct historical ancestor of the revo
ton of the Russian workers and peasants OF 1905 and OF the
subsequent successful revolution of October 1917 The Paris
Commune historical the predecessor of
the present dictatorship of the proeat of the Union OF
Socialist Soviet Republics In the Paris revolution of 1871
active members of the international Workngmens AS
ISOLATION the First International of which the present Com
munst International is the direct heir and the successor on
immensely developed scale
Marx contributed the world proetaran revolution the
tremendous which laid the foundation of the science
of proetaran revolution embodied today in the Communist
International. The founder of the Communist League
which issued the Communist Manifesto in 1848 in fact
also the founder of the Communist International Vladimir
Iytch Lenn whose leadership the proetarlan revou
ton was and the successful dictatorship OF the poe
tarat established and whose strong hand guided the Com
munst International into e did much than the mere
revival and application" of Marxsm. For Lenin was
himself the creative genius of revolution who ranks with
Marx in the building of the revolutionary science The per-
od Imperialism the last stage of capitalism the period
of the proearian revolution bringing forth unprecedented
phenomena found in Lenin repeater of knowl
edge long ago learned but another revolutionary giant OF
the stature of MARIA creative leader capable not only OF
the complete mastery of all that Marx had given but also
capable carrying that science forward to unprecedented
development both the theoretical and the practical plane
under the conditions of Imperialism worldwar and the
breaking of the mperst chain by force of revolution at
its weakest point 1t is thus that revolutionary Marxsm,
not only Marxism, but also as Leninism found its
triumph in the victorious revolutionary Soviet Union
It truly said that Lenn the founder of the Com
munt International and is just true that the historical
origin the Communist International dates back to Marx
who shares with Lenn the title of its founder We recall the
efforts to claim the traditions of Marx belonging to the
sociademocratic parties of the Second International OPP
position to what the soademocratc traitors called the
"Asiatic Socialism of Lenin embodied in the Communist
International But the heous lie burns the lips OF those who
tell it. Even the yellow socademocratc traitors themselves
hardly any longer to maintain the shameless preense
that the revou Marx belongs to the
airy party of Hiqu and Cahan Schedemann Noske, Muel
Ter and Macdonald and today their papers full of Eek
plantations" that Marx is now Obsolete"
Marx belongs to the Communist International.
The overthrow of the Russian czar preceding the pro
tartan overthrow of the Russian bougeose would have re-
suited in nothing resembling the liberation of the Rus
sian Masses if it had not served the starting point for
the proetaran revolution It's traditions also meaning
less except the history of the Communist revolution
Throughout the world is customary for clasconscious
workers demonstrate the 18th of March in of
the Paris Commune But today the Paris Commune is no
longer dead thing of tradition aone The Paris Commune
actually lives the form of the Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics The slightest word of gorficaon OF the heroic
deeds of 1871 becomes shameful hypocrisy unless coupled
with honor to the paris Commune of today-the Soviet
Union Would you live again in the traditions of the bar
rades of Pars-defending the Commune from the armies
of reaction? WE'LL then you have chance to do this
not stupid makebeeve but in deeds For the living
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is facing attack today
The imperass plotting for the destruction of the
Union of Socialist Soviets Defend it with your lfework
of all countries!
Would you do honor to Marx? Then do honor to the
living organization of proetaan revolution which is in the
founded by Marxthe Communist International
And not in words, but in revolutionary practically be-
coming member of the Communist Party of the United
States Of America the section of the Communist Inerna
tional.
The Communist International is the word-Party of the
proearian revolution In it found the glorious trad
lions of all of the history Of the working class struggle In
is found the only leadership that anyone dream
n If