The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-26
Thomas and F0ster>>> "Ptons
Pleading Us. Class Struggle"
Positions of the Candidates of the Communist and
Socialist Parties in Sharp Contrast

"The capitalists will never
voluntarily give up control of
society and abdicate their system
of exploiting the masses. Regard
less of the devastating effects of
their decaying capitalism; Let
there be famine, war, pestiIenOes
terrorism, they will hang on to
their wealth and power until IT is
snatched from their hands by the
revolutionary prOletariat.
THE capitalists will not give
up OF their own accord; nor can
they be talked, bought or voted
out of power. To believe other
wise would be deadly fataIism,
disarming and paralyzing the
workers in their struggle. No
ruling class ever surrendered to a
rising subject class without last
ditch open fight. Witness the
fight of Great Britain in 1916 to
retain the American colonies; and
the fight of the Southern ruling
class in 1861-C. A. H. To put an
end to the capitalist system
will require consciously revolu-
tionary act by the great toiling
masses, led by the Communist
Party; that is the conquest of the
State power, the destruction of
the State machine created by the
ruling class, and the organization
of the proletarian dictatorship.
The lessons of history allow of no
other conclusion"
In this statement, William z.
Foster stands on firm ground
together with Marx, Engels, Lenin,
and, yes, even with Eugene v. Debs.
ABOVE all, recent events prove
n the correctness of these asser-
tons. The murderous warfare of
the bosses and their political bench
men against the unemployed,
clubbing, casing, and even killing
them in dozens of cities, including
socialist" Milwaukee; the vicious
attacks against the ex-servicemen
in Washington; the brutal efforts
to break the fighting front of the
poor farmers; the categorical re-
fusal of Republicans, Democrats,
and Socialists alike to pay adequate
relief to the hungry and suffering
millions - workers, -servicemen,
Negroes, and poor farmers-al1 this
conclusively proves that the cap
italist class will never yield an inch,
a h 10 L.
workers without fight, without
'class strife becoming literal class
war"
Norman Thomas, with his paci-
fism, is not weakening the assault
of the bosses against the workers:
he is only attempting to disarm
the workers, to break their re-
SiStance.
THE ONLY WAY OUT
William z. Foster, on the con-
trary, stands firmly on the plat
form of the father of revolutionary
socialism, Karl Marx on the plat
form of the class struggle. In the
words of Marx and Engels in the
Communist Manifesto, "The Com
munist disdafn to conceal their
views and aims. They openly de-
clare that their ends can be at.
tanned only by the forcibIe over
throw of all existing social condi-
tions. Let the ruling classes trembIe
at Communist revolution. The
proletarians have nothing TO lose
but their chains. They have a
world to gain
Those workers in this election
campaign who are really for a
fight for bread today and for
socialism will repect the deadly
pacifist poison of Norman Thomas,
and energetically support the Com
munist candidates, William 2. Fos-
ter and James w. Ford.
Their road = the revolutionary
road-alone offers way out of the
crisis and misery of capitalism,