The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-04

( confirmation of AarS's teachings:
the Dictatorship Ct the Proletarist in
Russia and the beginning Of the first
Socialist Republic.
Each panel has stirring pictures Of
Marks days and choice quotations
| painted in neat red letters related
to the period dealt with. There are
| photoStatic COPIES Of famous histoTi-
cal documents written by Marx
copies Of the RheiniSche Zeitung, the
paper edited by Marx, which was
| banned, and Marx banished from
Germany. Pictures OF the Chartist
battles Of 1889 In England and Err
nest Jones, Chartist leader.
The famous date, 1913. The oats
of the first French revolution, the
date Of the writing Of q document
which was bound to have the most
profound effect on the course Of hue
man history-the Communist Mani
festo. All this wildly told In pie
lures attractively arranged on the
neat red bordered panels.
The collection of quotations slona
from dozens of works was worth tbs
visit. Each quotation epitomized
some historical truth. From Capital;
ct is not the consciousness Of men
that determines their existence but
on the contrary, their social exist
| ence determines their consciousness"
"What men, these Communards
was the comment among the visitors
as they looked on the pictures OF
/ the leaders of the Paris Commune.
Daring, courageous, intelligent faces
and the scenes in which they took
part in Paris, 1871. The streets bar
| ricaded, workers with guns, bloody
| fighting. Alongside the pictures,
| Marks interpretations and the les
sons he drew for the working lass to
guide them in the future. at was the
first revolution in which the working
class was acknowledged as the only
! class capable Of social initiative" and
then the words Of Marx from which
the working class had the most 10
learn and which the opportunists.
| particularly the Socialist Parties. try
the hardest TO ignore or distort. The
Paris Commune, wrote Marx, was
'the finally discovered form in which
the economic liberation Of the work
ers can take place" that is, the Die
tatorship Of the Proletariat.
And so from one panel TO the
other, each a course in NIarxist his
tory. until the epoch OF Imperialism
and Lenin
Stains words on what Leninisln
is: "Lenirism is Msrxism of the
epoch of Imperialism and of tine
| Proletarian Revolution. Leniu-
ism is the theory and the tactic Of
the proletarian revolution in general
| and the theory and the tactic Of the
dictatorship Of the proletariat in par
ticular."
Then from the panels Of docu-
ments, the books, the quotations, the
pictures Of action, Paris Commune,
1905, 1917. the guide-posts, springing
from all this like from an architects
plaza new panel: The First Five
Year Plan. E. Dnieperstroy, Kuznet-
stroy Magnetogorsk, giant symbols
Of the profound vision Of Marx, En-
gels, Lenin, Stain.
From 1919 the Communist Mani
festo, to 1888 and the Soviet Union,
moving towards q classics society.
The interest on the faces of the
workers as they stopped at panel
after panel, the slow, careful chew
ing Of the quotations, the blood
quickened by the historical pictures
all was testimonial to Lenin's words
that 1.-THE worker wants to know
everything everybody else knows"
Colorfully setting off the panels and
summing up their meaning to the
revolutionary working class today.
were red remnants Of the Workers
School, edging the shelves on which
the panels stood with the words:
Training for the Glass Struggle"