The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-24
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
The Daily Worker will answer in, this col
umn questions which are sent in to its Work.
ers Correspondence Department

The Daily Worker will answer in this col
umn questions which sent in to its Work.
ers Correspondence Department.
Question-What is Communism anyway?
Brooklyn N. Y.
It is used with two meanings: Communism is
the future form of society which will replace
capitalism. 1t also means the revolutionary
movement of the working class whose aims and
activities will bring about this Communist So
ciety.
In the world Communist society, work will
longer be done for capitalists, since class
divisions. along with the capitalists will be abol
ished. All will be workers and comrades working
for their common benefit. Private property will
be abolished, the means of production and dis
tribution will be owned in common and con-
sciously planned and organized for the purpose
OF satisfying the growing social needs All crises,
wars, unemployment, oppression, poverty and
wretched standards of living will disappear. Each
can have what he needs for the asking, and
many things will be furnished without asking
money will be unnecessary. The practice will
be- From each according to his abilities, to
each according to his needs"
Production will be so efficient that every one
can have the better thin0s of life, education,
recreation and culture. The social distinctions
between workers doing different kinds of work.
and between manual and mental labor will be
abolished. Under capitalism each worker has
a one-sided monotonous training and is Ignorant
in many ways. Under Communism work, edu-
cation and social life will be associated together.
Each will receive an all-around education, so
that he can understand and do many things.
No one will be REQUIRED to do the same thing all
of the while but will do different jobs at various
times Machinery will do many disagreeabIe
- I.Izz..
will be much shorter The State which is
means of class rule will no longer be necessary
and will disappear.
The revolutionary movement which is what
is more generally meant by Communism, is
working class movement which fights most mill
family right now for the everyday needs of
the toilers and also leads them to this new So
ciety. Only the working class with the leader
ship of the Communist Parties, is able to bring
about the necessary conditions and build a Com
munist society which is the only way to gain
freedom and full human development.
The capitalist class which now rules, which
exploits and Expresses the workers and poor
farmers is bitterly opposed to Communism and
to the wel-being of the laborers. 1t is necessary
for the toilers to organize, overthrow the capi-
taIists and their rule, take industry and estab-
lish a workers and farmers government The
workers will win this class struggle. The So
Wet Union is already in the first stages of a
Communist Society.
| Communism is worldwide movement. The
| Communist Parties are joined together in one
association the Communist International 1t
leads the longer struggle sd well as the i'm
-nediate bread and butter fight of the masses
Question: What is the difference between
,,iSf RoI
A Communist is Bolshevik Bolshevik is a
Russian word and means majority" When the
| Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party split in
1908, because one section unwilling to accept
revolutionary (CommuniSt program, the adj
herents of the Communist program received
majority, and the opponents of the Communist
program remained in a minority, both continued
| to consider and call themselves the Socal-Demo-
cratic Labor Party of Russia To distinguish
themselves from the non-Communist minority,
the Communist majority attached to its name
| the word ajority" (Boshevik). Gradually, the
word "Bolshevik" came to mean the same as
| Communist"
Question: Who constitute the international
! Conference of Revolutionary writers?-Washing-
ton, ID. C..
The International Conference Of Revolutionary
Writers and Artists, held at Kharkov, U. S. S. r.,
from November to November Is, brought to-
gether delegates from % countries and five con-
tinents who discussed their problems. adopted
common platform and made concrete plans tor
cultural and political work in each country. The
conference was organized by the international
Bureau of Revolutionary Literature to which or
CARNATIONS of revolutionary writer's and artists
in various countries are affiliated The Ameri
can delegation representing the John Reed Club
and the New Masses, consisted of Fred Ellis
Michael Gold, William Chopper, Joshua Kunitz
A. b. Magil and Harry Allan Potamkin.
The conference declared the chief potica
task of all revolutionary writer's and artists Il
be the waging of relentless struggle agans
the war danger and in defense of the Sovie
Union. For full report of the conference Sc
the February number of the New Masses. Oool
for your other questions in the near future.)