The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-16
By M. JABLONsKI.

Ten years have passed since the
best representatives of the inter-
national revolutionary proletariat,
rallying to the call of the Central
Committee of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union, gathered to-
gether in the Red c pital of the
first workers State to lay the foun-
{ ..tions of the new revolutionary
International.
They were not numerous, these
foreign delegates to the first world
conference of the Communists, who
stood for the platform of Bolshev-
ism; 1T the theological force with
which they were supported made the
whole capitalist world quake. For
this was the power which arose out
of the imperialist war and of the
October Revolution, which, in con-
sistently triumphant advance, won
over the vanguard of the working
class, who defended it with great
sacrifice and suffering, with tie
blood of such fighters of the prole-
tartan struggle for emancipation as
Rosa Luxembourg, Karl Liebknec--.
and thousands of unknown heroes.
The days from the End to the 7th
of March, 1919, on which the first
Congress Of the Comintern sat UNI
der the Craftsmanship of Lenin and
proclaimed the battle-cries of the
world revolution, are an important
date in the history of humanity.
The class fight of the. proletariat
in the whole world took on new
forms, forms of the real revolution
airy instructions against inter-
national capital. 1t assumed fresh
fundamental content, represented by
the conviction that the task of over
throwing the bourgeoisie and de-
stroying the bourgeois State is no
longer more or less distant future
dream but an actuality on the order
of the day. In word; the chang
ing of the fundamental forms of the
proletarian fight and the changing
of it's main content was summed up
and expressed in those two leading
principles laid down by the first
Congress in its resolutions: the prin-
ciple of the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat and of the Soviets as its
form, as the form in which demo-
cracy for the working class, demo-
cracy for all workers, is most prac-
tically and concretely realized.
In these two principles or, rather,
in this one single principle--for the
Soviet Power is the realization of
proletarian dictatorship-lies the
fundamental historical significance
of the Communist International, "its
place and it's role" in the fight for
the emancipation Of the working
class and of the whole of humanity
from economic exploitation and po-
litical bondage. In his famous art
icle "The Third International and Its
Place in History" Lenin points out
the insoluble relationship between
the founding of the Comintern and
the creation of the Soviet Union, the
common path of the fight which
must be followed by them to achieve
the overthrow of world capitalism.
In this connection Lenin says:
Formally the III. international
was founded at it's first Congress
in March, 1919, in Moscow. And
the characteristic feature of the
III. International--its vocation to
fulfil Marks testament and con-
vert it into life, and to realize the
eternal ideals of Socialism and of
the III. international found ex-
preston from the start, for the
new, the third, international
Labor Association" Immediately
began to coincide in certain
measure with the Union of the
Socialist Soviet Republics"
Lenin supplements this thought
in the following explanation:
1.-THE international federation of
the parties, which command the
most revolutionary movement in
the world, i. e. the movement Of
the proletariat for the overthrow
of capitalist dominion, now has a
special and, as far as its COM
pleteness is concerned, an unpar-
alleled basis: several Soviet Re-
publics, which embody on an inter-
Ii national scale the dictatorship of
the proletariat and its victory
over capitalism"
When Lenin wrote these lines the
Hungarian Soviet Republic existed
side by side with the triumphant
Soviet State of the Russian probe
tariat, and in this strengthening OF
the foundations Of the international
revolution, in this extension of its
basis, the clearest expression was
given to the fact that the Commun-
ist international is not only child
of the October of 1917 but organizer
and creator of the world October
the pledge of the final victory OF
the proletariat in the whole world
Tor in individual countries) forms
the center about which all national
and class conflicts of the new epoch
of world history will have to gather
The words of Lenin, that the rev
dictionary world party possesses q
firm foundation in the existence Of
the Soviet Republics, confirm and
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