The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-07
4 Systc-l Which
Has Proven Its So
Cial Bankruptcy
BY D. z. MANUMsKY
Excerpt Ffrom His Report to the
41th P1enum Of the Com. IntIl

NOAAA aoeS, nave come 10 the end
OF my report. At the basis of the
theses submitted to you on the first
question Of the agenda we placed
the contrast between the U.SSR.
and the entire capitalist world.
This Is no accident. The antagon-
ism between the two irreconcilable
worlds constitutes the pivot of the
present international situation.
The proletariat dictatorship comes
forward now, not on the smoky
ruins OF imperialiSt war, but clad
more and more IN the steel armor
OF socialism not in Timing up" with
the postwar economic chaos in all
the belligerent countries in Europe,
but in the dynamics Of the upswing
OF Socialism and the decline of
capitalism.
1t is no longer carrying on agita-
ton only with the aid of the heroic
pages of the civil war, it is corrod-
ing the capitalist world with the
smoke of its gigantic factories built
up under great difficulties and with
tremendous effort. It is rousing the
peasantry of the capitalist coun-
tries with the CHEEKY sound of the
first Soviet made tractors in the
fields Of the U.S.S.R. In the capt.
talist world we have the philosophy
OF twilight Of Europe. the MASTER
mino-Spengler. In the U.S.S.R.
we have the philosophy of the revo-
Iuttonary struggles, and the bearer
OF this philosophy Is the worker en-
gagged in gigantic construction
whose stern features express the
power of a conquering class. the
pathos Of It's struggle and Socialist
construction. Among the capital
lists there is diSnay, lack of conf
dence In the morrow, alarm before
difficulties; in the U.S.S.R. there
Is firm confidence in the chosen
road leading to victory, a steeled
will to overcome difficulties. In the
capitalist world thousands are ask
ing, says Professor Bonn:
Whether the capitalist system
has any right to exist IL it is un-
sbie in the richest country in the
t0rid to create a system where
billions Of people will not be
compelled from time TO time to
live In poverty and depend upon
charity soup kitchens and lodging
houses"
What can the capitalist phil
osopherS, politicians and journalists
say to the millions OF slaves OF the
capitalist system in justification of
this slaveryP BY what arguments of
human logic can they prove to the
masses the reasonableness of this
system which has proved its social
ahsurdity, unless It be with guns.
machine guns. airplanes, prisons,
police and gendarmerie2 If we
were to say that the hypocritical
British bourgeoisie calls upon the
millions Of starving unemployed TO
suffer patiently and look forward
20 the life after death 1t would be
regarded as bad joke. But 1t is
not thought Joke. One can read
this in the New Year issue of the
Times this year. In the leading ar
ticle which consoles the unemployed
with the thought that this world is
only part Of the universe, that after
this vale Of tears and suffering, q |
better time awaits them in heaveni
But the millions of the mem-
ployed in Germany. Poland, U.S.A.,
Great Britain. the masses Of hui
manity In China. India and Indo-
China do not want to wait until
the promissory note which The
Times gave to the unemployed has
expired. the more so that 1t has not
been guaranteed by a single impor-
tant bank except that of the Vat
lean. These masses are moving in
TO action. They see not only the
glare of impending imperialist wars,
they are already the victims of saw
age war which capital Is waging
against them in the capitalist as
well as in the colonial countries.
eff Communism continues to
Improve its achievements it will
have far greater effect upon the
life of the West than anything
else and viii be the biggest fac
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