The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-03
BY c. E. RUTHENBERG.
CFrom THE Liberator," July, 1929


What is the goal of the Communist Party?
Wherein does it differ from other labor political
parties What is the role of the Communist
Party-in this country the Workers Party-in
the struggle for the emancipation of the work
ers?
The Communists accept their guiding
policy that the world imperialist was the
beginning of the decay and disintegTatlon OF
the capitalist system. Although the capitalists,
financiers, and statesmen have striven nightly
since 1918 to find solution to the financial
and economic problems brought upon them by
the war; the process Of disintegration still goes
on. At times there are slight improvements
only to be followed by worse conditions. Finan-
cially and economically, Europe draws nearer
and nearer to the brink.
The Communists point out to the working
class that the capitalist system has outlived
its day. that it cannot be reformed or recon-
structed that the misery and suffering which
are the lot of the workers can only be ended
by the workers establishing their rule and pro-
ceeding with the work of rebuilding the eco
nomic system on a Communist basis.
The Communists are under no illusion that
this can be done over night. The struggle
against the capitalist system may still last for
decades and even after the workers achieve
power, will go on for years. The Communists
do not attempt to deceive the workers by teach
ing them that the social revolution is pink
tea affair to be achieved in the legislative halls
of the capitalist government. The lesson of
the one country in which the workers have at
tanned power-Soviet Russia-shows that after
the workers government is established an
iron dictatorship must rule as the instrument
through which the struggle against the exploit
ers is carried forward there. The Communists
recognize she historic truth that no privileged
class has ever given up its special position, its
power to live in luxury through the exploita-
ton of the oppressed class, without bitter
struggle in which it has resorted to every means
within its power to retain its privileged posi-
ton
Everything points to the fact that the strug
gle against capitalism in Europe and America
will not differ from the class struggles of the
past and that the workers in the fight to
emancipate themselves must be ready for this
struggle.
In the United States the Communists today
are advocating as their chief immediate pro-
posals the amalgapoation Of the trade unions
into industrial rnions and the formation of
labor Iarty. While the Communists in the
United States are the leaders in the struggle
to bring about amalgamation and the forma-
ton of a labor party, this does not mean that
when this goal is achieved the task of the
communists IS at an end.
For the Communists, the amalgamation of
the trade unions into industrial unions and the
formation of labor party to fight the poll
teal battles of the working masses of this
country are but the first steps toward the ulti-
mate goal of the workers government and the
Communist society.
When these means of struggle are achieved
there will still remain for the Communists
the tasks of bringing to the masses of the