The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-22
THE. ANNIVERSARY OF A
HISTORICAL DECISION


Is PEI cent compared with 554 per cent last
year, including in the cities-939 per cent in
the Donbas-934 per cent, and in the districts
of compact collectivtzation-72 per cent. IS per
cent of youngsters between the age of II and
is attend school,
THE children are now taught in their own
language, and the number of schools for the
children of the national minorties has been
considerably increased 90 per cent of the chill
dren of the Russian population of the Ukrainian
S.S.R. between the age of and 10, 963 per cent
of the Jewish, 974 per cent of the German,
96.9 per cent of the Polish, 963 per cent of the
Bulgarian and 90 per cent of the Greek popula-
ton attend school.
side by side with the development of the
schools on a hitherto unknown scale, we have
also considerable attachments with regard to the
reorganization of the schools on the basis of
poly -technzation. Over rs per cent of the 7-year
schools are attached to factories, Soviet and
collective farms, and are reorganized into voca-
tional and young peasant schools"
These reports speak for themselves. They
show very wildly the difference between the
state system of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re
publics and that of the capitalist states On
July Is, 1881, it was said in the :Izvestia":
I'm the workers districts of the Soviet Union,
compulsory education has taken this year the
form of the 7-year's school. In the preparations
for the new school year Q931-32) the problem
of compulsory 7-years education for all children
will be one Of the main tasks of cultural con-
struction. By giving compulsory education the
form of the 7-year school, by placing the voca-
tional schools on the sound foundation of a Z
years education, we will make a big stride to-
wards the full realization of the program of our
If
children and youngsters up to the age of IT,"
Capitalism does not require intellectual forces,
it can neither absorb them, nor make full use
of them. Moreover, capitalism is afraid of in
tellect because it begins to feel vaguely that its
existence is already historically unnecessary and
unreasonable. BY restraining the aspiration of
its youth towards higher intellectual qualifi-
cation, capitalism. so to speak, withholds from
the youth the right to develop its intellect be-
yond the limits required for the Qualification of
the power of capitalism. This is Infamous but
it shows foresight An unemployed intellectual
is a proletarian, and in the struggle for eXis
tence, he must march hand in hand with the
proletariat, and the more clever he is the more
dangerous.
The Soviet power has taken an important
step, essential in the interests of revolution
which is to lead to the intellectual armament
of the millions of strong youth Of the Soviet
Union. "The 7-year school for all means equal
opportunities for the whole youth to develop its
intellect. Making the 7-year school reality is
creating one of the premises for the attainment
of high aim which the obedient servants of
the capitalists call social utopia" an Illusion
a fib, for the attainment of a state of affairs
when everyone works according to his ability
when everyone receives according to his need"
when all are sufficiently reasonable socially not
to require Compulsion. Then the state as a
constraining organization disappears entirely.
1.-THE 7-year school for all" is a matter of enor-
nous historical Importance.
1t is self-evident that we cannot stop at the
"7-year school," Our country which has popu-
lation of 160,O000o0, stands in need of hundreds
of thousands of highly qualified workers in the
domains of science, technique and art. We
have everything to learn, we are only beginning
to know our country, to discover its wealth of
raw material and to study it. While in our
country every hard won roube is spent for the
construction of factories and schools for the re-
lease of the peasantry from the hard labor to
which it was accustomed, for the abolition of
every distinction between town and country-the
capitalists are robbing their workers and peas
ants for armament against us. The military
expenditure of the capitalist countries is grow
ing enormously. Capitalism is an organization
of robbers who are openly and shamelessly pre-
pairing for another monstrous crime against the
proletarat of all countries for, every war of the
capitalists is against the toilers.
Will the capitalists succeed in organizing once
more the determination of millions of proetar-
ians? This question can be answered only by
the proletariat of Europe and America, by the
proletariat of the barracks, factories and fields
1t is time to make up ones mind for this an
swer, and this simple and clear answer is rec
commended to the workers of the world by the
Communist Party. The workers of the world
must realize that by working for the capitalists
they are committing suicide They must realize
that the only admissible, and even historically
inevitable warts the war of the working class
of the whole world against the capitalists of the
whole world against small group of people
which leads the toilers world to degeneration
and perdition. They must realize that the work
ing class of the Soviet Union, the full master of
its country, shows them the way to the regen-
Grafton of toiling mankind
The capitalist world is on the brink of an
abyss, the historical duty of the proletariat is
to push this rotting world which has outlived
itself, into the abyss.