The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
nv MoISsAYE J. OLGTN

BY MOISSAYE J. OLGlN
7 ENIN died nine years ago. Under
Il ,Lenin's leadership, the Russian
Bolshevik Party was organized.
Under his leadership, the Bolshe-
viks seized power In Russia during
November, 1917. Under his firm
guidance, the first steps Of the
Proletarian Dictatorship were
made. But Lenin did not live to
see the first Five Year Plan which
built the foundation of Socialism.
He did not see the coming of the
Second Five Year Plan, which
means the completion Of social
ist society.
Socialism is the abolition Of
classes" said Lenin. I'm order to
abolish classes, the landowners and
capitalists must, first Of all, be
overthrowr1. This part OF the task
we have carried out, but this is
only a part and not the most diff
cult at that"
DICTATORSHIP OF
PROLETARIAT.
To overthrow the landowners
and capitalists means to establish
the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat,
and to make it secure. The Die
tatorship of the Proletariat, said
Ler1i11, is not only the power of the
proletariat over the bourgeoisie,
but it Is at the same time class
war. 1.-THE Dictatorship Of the Pro
letariat is the most Self-Sacrificing
but at the same time the most
Inerciless war of the new class
against the more powerful enemy,
the bourgeoiSie, whose resistance
increases tenfold by its over
throw; "the Dictatorship Of the
ProIetariat is a stubborn struggle,
bloody and bloodless, by force and
violence and by pacific means,
military and economic, educational
and administrative, against the
powers and traditions Of old So
ciety."
MERCILESS war against the old
W classes and their remnants is
one Of the fundamentals of Lenin-
ism. This has been carried out re-
ientlessly by the Communist Party
and its leaders. The opportunists
from the right and left" whose
activities aim at weakening the
struggle of the Proletarian Dicta~
torship against the class enemies,
tried to detract the revolution from
the true path of Leninisn. II they
have not succeeded, it was due to
the vigilance Of the Party with
Comrade Stain at its head.
'Proletarian dictatorship is not
only force and violence, and not
mainly force and violance against
the exploiters," said Lenin. "T'he
proletariat represents and puts into
operation a higher type of social
organization Of labor" This higher
type Of organization makes it pos
sible not only to produce quicker
and better than under capitalism,
but to produce according to plan.
The real and only base for the
creation of a socialist society Is
one and only one, and that is large
scale industry" said Lenin. With
out highly developed large scale
industry there can be no talk
about socialism generally, and more
so In peasant country like Rus
sia. Instead of the indefinite
on abstract form Of rebuilding
large scale industry, we speak now
about definite precisely calcu-
lated concrete plan of electrifica-
ton. We have completely, pre-
cisely calculated plan, calculated
with the aid Of the best Russian
specialists and men Of science,
which gives us a definite idea as
to what resources, what natural
peculiarities Of Russia we may and
can use in building this basis Of
large scale industry for our eco
nof1ic life"
NO SOCIALISM WITHOUT
LARGE-SCALE INDUSTRY
Without large scale industry
there can be no socialism, said
Lenir1. And large scale industry
needs q plan. The Soviet Union is
now working according to definite,
well developed plans.
But industry alone could not solve
the problem Of building socialism,