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ference between the value of what the workers
produce and the wages they receive for their
labor is pocketed by the capitalists as profit
Ii the capitalists cannot get any profit they
stop or curtail production in their factories
That is why today, in the midst of plenty, mil
lions of American workers and poor farmers
are starving.
S0viets Establish Socialism
The Russian Revolution endeavors to replace
this capitalist system with socialist system.
Under socialism all the socially necessary
natural resources, factories, means of trans
portation, etc, are owned socially. They will
be operated and exploited not for the profit
of private owners but for the benefit of all.
Under socialism, bread will be baked clothing
will be manufactured and houses will be erect
ed no longer for the enrichment of COM
paratively few capitalists but in order to supply
the needs of the masses. Under socialism So
ciety does not pay any tribute to capitalists.
Everyone, according to his ability, pays tribute
to society in the form of useful labor. In
return everyone participates in the fruits of
this common endeavor. Under capitalism the
development of the productive forces means
more intense exploitation for the workers and
greater profits for the capitalists. Under so
cialism the development of the productive
forces means a reduction of the required effort
for the workers accompanied by growing
share in the social products.
The first step in the change from capital
ism to socialism is not an economic but po-
litical problem. The capitalists not only own
privately and individually ALL the natural re-
sources and factories, etc., but collectively, as
8 class, they also own the government. The
principles of the capitalist class are also the
principles of the capitalist government; they
are the principles of private property. my
country was founded upon the rock (not of the
rights of man, but Of property rights and
the sanctty of contracts declared James M.
Beck, solicitor-genaral of the United States
during the Harding administration. And in
deed the powers Of the American government,
its laws, its courts, its police its army, main
tain and defend only property rights. The
capitalist class is the ruling class; its interests
are the embodiment of ''law and order" When
workers organize against these interests and
for their own the capitalists charge violation
of claw and ORDER" threaten the workers lead
ers with death or imprison them for life as
they have done with Mooney and Billings.
When the workers strike for better wages
against the high profits of the capitalists, the
ORDER" arrest their leaders and imprison them
for life as was done to the leaders of the In
perial Valley strike. When workers picket for
decent working conditions against the profit
interests of the capitalists they are restrained
by capitalist court injunctions and capitalist
policeman shoots them down to protect law
and order as was done to Steve Katovis. When
the workers demonstrate for bread and against
the profit interests of the Bosses they are
ridden down by State Cossacks, they are club
bed, they are met with tear gas bombs and
machine guns and their leaders are imprisoned
for violating claw and order" as has happened
to the unemployed demonstrations throughout
the United States. The government of the
United States is capitalist dictatorship.
Only Revolution Can Effect Change
Against this capitalist government with its
laws and its police and it's army, no social
change can be affected without fundamental
political change The capitalist class must be
removed and replaced as the ruling class by
the workers The working class in alliance
with the poor farmers, must build its govern
ment apparatus in place of the present capt.
taist apparatus. The capitalist government
apparatus is designed to carry through and
defend only the interests Of the capitalists
against the workers. To carry through and
defend the interests of the workers against
the capitalists the workers must set up their
own government apparatus They must re
place the capitalist with proletarian dicta-
torship.
The Sovets in Russia are the structure and
apparatus of workers government When
the Soviets defeated and replaced the czarist