The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-04
SOCIALIST
COMPETITION

of realizing the control, in ways of destroying
and rendering harmless the parasites (the rich,
the scoundrels, idlers and hysterical intellec-
tuals, etc.. On the contrary, this assures unity
The Parts Commune was striking example OF
the combination of initiative independence, free
dom OF movement and energy of the rank and
file and voluntary, unstereotyped centralsm.
Our Soviets are proceeding along the same lines.
But they are still shy" they have not yet de-
veloped, they have not yet become absorbed i'll
this new, great constructive work of creating
socialism. The soyiets must set to work more
Courageousy, with more initiative. Every com
mune," factory, village, consumers organization,
supplies committee must come forward. compete
with the others as practical organizers of ac-
counting and control of labor and the distribu-
ton of products. The program of this account
ing and control must be simple, clear, intelli-
gible to every one that every one should have
bread; that every one should wear good shoes,
wear decent clothes, live in warm houses, work
conscientiously; that not a single scoundre
(shirker) remain free but sit in prison or do hard
labor; that not a single wealthy man, violating
the regulations and laws OF socialism evade the
scoundrers fate. In all Justice, the rich mans
fate should be- He who does not work, neither
shall he eat" That is the practical command
ment of socialism. That is what we now have
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practical successes which our "communes," our
worker and peasant organizers and particularly
our intellectuals must take pride in tparticu-
larly since they are too accustomed, much too
accustomed, to take pride in general instruction.
and resoludons).
Thousands of ways and means for the prac-
teal registering and control of the wealthy, OF
the scoundrels and the parasites, must be worked
Cd in, Nv
self, by the small nuclei in the villages ard in
the city Here, variety is the guarantee of vital
tty, the pledge of success in the achievements of
a general single aim to free the land OF Russia
from all pests, from scoundrels rich men, and
other pernicious insects who infest the country
like bugs and fleas. In one place, imprison q
dozen rich people, q score of Scoundrels half q
dozen workers who are Sinking work like those
hooiganS, the Petrograd compositors who are
lodging work particularly in the Party printing
shops) CAT the beginning of the October Revo-
luton the printers in the main supported the
Mensheyiks. Those who we're working on the
Bolsheyk Party press sabotaged the work Ed
In another, make them clean the atrines. In
a third, give them yellow ticket when they
leave prison SO that the whole nation will be
able to keep their eye on them as dangerous
people until they have been reformed In
In fifth, adopt combination of different ways
and means, as, for example, putting those ele-
ments, scoundrels and hooligans who can be re-
formed, on probation, as means of reforming
them rapidly The more varied the means, the
better, the richer will be the general experience
truer and quicker will be the success of social
ism, and practice will produce with greater IA
cility-for only practice productive best
ways and means of carrying on the struggle
In what commune, In what section of large
city, in what factory, in what village are there no
hungry people, no unemployed, no rich loafers,
no scoundrelly bourgeois lackeys, saboteurs who
call themselves intellectuals? Where was more
done to increase the productivity of labor? To
construct new good houses for the poor? To
house the poor in the houses of the rich? To
see that each poor family is well supplied and
that every child In the family has a bottle OF
milk every day? These are the things for which
the commune, the productive consumers society
and the co-operatives of the Soviets of Workers,
Soldiers and Peasants Deputies must compete
1t is in this kind Of work that the organizing
talents must display themselves in a practical
way and come to the surface in work of the
state administration There is much talent of
this kind among the people The talents have
been suppressed They must be helped to de-
velop. These talents and only these, with the
support of the masses, can save Russia and save
the work of socialism.