The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-02
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
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plot or Cypress another Therefore the basis
of the state is removed. Engels explains it by
saying that, 1.-THE interference of the authority
of the state with social relations will . be-
come superfluous in one field after another and
finally will cease of itself. The authority of
government over persons will be replaced by the
administration of things and the direction of
the processes of production.p There will remain
the Conmunistic planning and administering
of production and distribution. (See Lenins
State and Revolution)
Question: u What is the ProIetarian Party
all about?-A Worker, N. Y.
(2) Is it possible for a revolution to succeed
before a majority of proletarians understand
Marks theory? Is it necessary to study, prac-
tice and theory at the same time before they
could lead to a revolution?--J. X. Pcnna.
Answer: These two questions from different
sources can be answered together as we shall
soon see
The Proletarian Party originated as one of the
Left Wing groups that split off from the social
list party just after the war, but unlike the other
left wing groups it refused to merge into the
Communist Party Cat that time called the Work
ers Party. The Proletarian Party believes that
the revolution will be brought about purely by
the Theoretical education of the workers-that if
the workers only get educated enough they will
somehow spontaneously revolt. This is a thor
oughly petty-bourgeois theory. 1t is theory
which instead of breeding active revolutionists,
breeds only "hall-cats' and "spittoon philoso-
phers'-people who are always ready to sit
around and "schmoose" about revolutionary the
cries, but who are inwardly decayed with a
cynical contempt for "those saps, those dumb
bell" as they call the workers who, they say
haven't got the sense" to revolt. They claim
that the Communists do not have sufficiently
pure MARKHAM program. Pure" to them means
lots of words without any action. For the Com
munists not only study theory but put their
theories into practice by organizing and fight
ing in the class struggle. True Marxism is the
science of the class struggle. And those who
take no part whatever in it, as the Proletarian
Party and the Socialist Labor Party, certainly
cannot claim to be real Marxsts and reyoIu-
tionists.
OF course education in Marxian-Leninist
theory is of tremendous importance for every
worker, not as a goal in ITSELF but as most
essential guide to his participation in the class
struggle, the highest point Of which is the prole-
tartan revolution. But the education obtained
through practical experience in the class strug-
gle is every bit as important. Both are neces-
sary to an active revolutionist
1t it we're necessary to wait until the major
ity of workers understand Marks complete the
cries before the revolution, then it would not
take place. For, do what we can, the facilities
of a Communist Party to reach and convince
the millions of workers in a capitalist country
by complete system of theoretical education
are indeed small compared to the tremendous
task. On the other hand, the capitalists con-
troll all the schools, press, churches movies,
radio, and every imaginable facility for propa-
gandar There is only one basic, theory of Marx
which must be learnt by the majority of the
working class, or at least the decisive section of
it--and that is the Glass Struggle-the need for
oyerthrowing the government of the capitalists.
and setting up their own Workers Soviet Gov
eminent But this the great masses of workers
Will not learn from books though books plav
an important role. They will lsarn this from
their everyday experiences in the factory, from
their struggles against wage cuts and for i'm
provements in conditions, from their experiences
III strikes, from their clashes with police and
troops on the picket line, from their struggle
against war, from their fight for unemployment
relief. When 1t Ks a question Of great masses
the Glass Struggle itself is the greatest teacher
AS we develop and lead this struggle. we build
up revolutionary consciousness as well as the
revolutionary organization which is necessary to
win ii.