The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-09-30

II is written on the whole record
of our race. British and American
history is made up Of rebellion and
revolution. Many of the crowned
kings were rebels or usurpers.
Hampden, Pyn, and Oliver Crom-
we'll; Washington, Adams and JEFF
ferson-alI were rebels. 1t is no
word of repr0ach. But these men
al knew the work they had set
themselves to do. They never call
ed their rebellion 'ptlceable Sc
cession.' They were sustained by
the consciousness OF right when
they overthrow established auth
GRITTY, but they meant to overthrow
it. They meant rebellion, civil war,
bioodshed infinite suffering for
themselves and their whole genera
ton, for they accounted them well
come substitutes for insulted liberty
and violated right. There can be
nothing palmer, then, than the
American right of revolution"
Americans have always been able
to solve a basic crisis by revolution
airy means. Nm 1776 we smashed the
letters of reactionary feudal rule by
the European absentee landlords In
1861 We smashed the feudal REM
nants of Negro slavery With the
same resolute and revolutionary de-
termination we must, In 1888, turn to
the task of smashing the oppressive
and destructive rule of the Wall
Street monopolist capitalists who
have brought our country to the brink
of destruction.
eff that be treason, make the most
of itr'
That's beautiful dream" admits
our admirer of General johnson and
his blue bird, "but its Utopian. It
wouldn't work. We can't get along
without the capitalists"
That used to sound like crushirT (.
argument. But that was long ag |
when the capitalist system was wor' (
ing, after fashion, and there was rlo'
other example of social organization
except the feudal, pre-capitalist So
cieties. But today such an argument
falls very flat.
1t is exactly capitalism that doesn't
work. The whole system has cracked
up so completely that nobody pre-
tends to deny the fact any more.
The only country in the world that
has no crisis today is that country
where they got rid of all their CAPT.
talists. That is Soviet Russia, the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
No Crisis in Soviet Union
Russia, when it was ruled by the
capitalists and feudal landlords, IN
der the Gar, was the most backward
country of Europe. But after the
Russian workers and farmers defeat :
ed the old government and its land
lord and capitalist class supporters
after they set up their own govern
ment of Workers and Farmers Coun-
ellis (Soviets), after they chased out
the capitalists or put them into over
alls-since then that backward old
country has made amazing strides
forward
just look at few things they were
able to do, at time when our capt.
talist system was falling about cur
ears and threatening to destroy us.
In Soviet Russia production has in
creased threefold over the pre-war
figure. Meanwhile, our production
dropped more than one-half.
The Soyiets abolished unemploy-
ment entirely. In America we threw
100000 out of their jobs.
The Soviets multiplied their schools
and cultural facilities by five or six
times, and turned billions of dollars
in this development. In America our
school system is falling to pieces, its
revenues are drying up, our school
teachers are unpaid, our culture is
stultifled.
ITO BE Continued