The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-10
By A. MARRIOTT.
Director Workers SchoOl.)

Director Workers SchOOl,(
The Workers School, now in its
tenth year, has endeavored to carry
out the full meaning of the slo-
gan Training for the Glass Strug-
GLE. This implies that the the
oretical training at the Workers
School has a definite aim, that of
equipping the workers with knowl-
edge for a more efficient partici-
patton in the struggles of the work
ers against capitalist exploitation.
Theoretical training is essential
in the class struggle. Engels, re-
ferring to the struggles of the
German workers, said the follow
ing:
For the first time in the history
of the Labor movement the strug-
gle is being SO conducted that its
three sides, the theoretical the
political and the practical eco
nomical deposition to capital
istsl, form one harmonious and
weII-planned entity. In this con-
centric attack, as It were, lies the
strength and inVincibility of the
German movement"
Engels thus clearly indicates that
the class struggle cannot be sue
cessfully conducted without an
adequate theoretical training of at
least the more advanced section of
the class conscious workers. But
the recognition of the necessity for
training is only part of the prob
lem. The kind of theory supplied
to the workers is the essential
thing. Engels, in speaking of the
DRY had in mind only one theory,
the one based on the class Strug-
gle, the theory of Marx and Engels.
Lenin carried the theory of Marx
and Engels further applied it to
the specific problems of the period
of imperialism and the epoch of
proletarian revolutions and devel-
oped it further, thus adding the
feminist phase to MarXism, en-
riching the theory of the class
struggle. 1t is the theory of Marx
ism-Leninisln which constitutes the
only correct theory for the work
ing class; it is the MarXist-Lenirl-
iSt theory combined with the prac-
teal participation in the class
struggle which constitutes the in
yincible weapon of the working
class. This is the real meaning of
Training for the Glass Struggle"
The correct Bolshevik application
OF the MarXist-Leninist teachings
in the class struggle constitutes the
basis of the Workers School.
UNBIASED Education"
We often hear individuals with
a liberal trend of mind, say that
the Workers School is biased, that
it does not present all sides. etc.
They claim that education should
be partisan that We should
bring in all views and let the stu
dent make up his or her mind as
to who is right. They will point
to the New School for Social Re
search, TO the Rand School. Brook
wood College, etc To these indi-
viduals we have one answer to give:
with us the class struggle is not a
debatable question; it is am estab-
lished fact. Therefore our aim
must be to develop the most eff
fective means Of overthrowing the
enemy and establishing proletar-
ian dictatorship in order to build
a classics society.
We can also point out that those
institutions which under the guise
of workers education carry on So
called impartial, non-biased educa-
ton serve es excellent agents of
the ruling forces of the capitalist
system. The Rand School for ex-
ample, in the announcement of
1882, in the section Proposed
Roads for Labor" had among its
lecturers the scoundrel, the betrayer
of the workers in the U. S., Mat
thew Vol. Tt also featured Wal
ter Drew, counsel of the National
Erectors Association on THE Case
for the Open Shop" The Rand
School educators" are evidently
not sure whether the workers
should organize against the ex-
plciters. We also find that Noel
Sargent, Secretary Of the National
Association of Manufacturers, was
scheduled among the lecturers to
speak on Labor Unionism from the
Employers Point Of View. OF
course we also find A. j. Music,
the director OF Brookwood College
among these honorable" gentle
men. A. ]. Muste. the pEnteseed