The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

ana Ulle DallOI. Once Jlle WOIhSIS'
have obtained the majority vote and
they have been organized into indus
trial unions, it will only be necessary
for the workers to take possession
of the industries and capitalism will
be caput. The workers will only
need to use force in defense of the
revolution, he argued, for the process
Of taking over the industries will be
a peaceful one. Only if the capital
lists will try to take them back, then
will the workers resort to arms. But
the capitalists will surrender I'M
conoitionally," a classics society will
set in; no dictatorship OF the prole-
tariat or a Communist Party will be
necessary. Today the S. L. P, using
the language of the militant So
cialists, designate this b1issful state
as industrial democracy"
Feudalism and Revolution
DeLeon died in 1914-this is be-
fore he had an opportunity to OBJ
serve or learn from the Russian
Revolution. Even then, however,
Lenin, on the basis of the expert
ences of the European revolutions of
the 18th Centuries and the Russian
Revolution of 1905, as well as by a
study of the writings of Marx on
the State, had forseen that no such
utopian DeLeonites picture of the
future was possible. Today, after
the Russian Revolution, experience
has indisputably shown that with
out dictatorship of the proletariat
to take the place of the machinery
of state which had been completely
smashed by tn revolution, it would
have been impossible for the working
class to maintain itself in power, it
would have been powerless against
all the internal as well as external
enemies of the workers republic. It
has also shown that a Communist
Party is necessary just as much after
the revolution as before. In fact it
is the main directing force in the
great task which faces the working.
class after the revolution-the build
ing of Socialism, and the creation of
a classics society.
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nants of feudalism has nothing to
do with it. It may effect certain as
poets of the revolution, but not its
main outlines. In the South, for in
stance, there are still very strong
remnants of the slave system, which
exhibit feudal features. This will
not affect the question of the die
tatorship of the proletariat. 1t will,
however, have the effect of acceler-
ating the revolutionary movement in
the South by drawing into the prole-
tartan revolution the Negro masses
suffering under peon conditions.
Fascism and Democracy
The rise of fascisin in a number of
European countries as the last line
OF resistance of capitalism against
the gathering revolutionary forces
should be sufficient to silence the
clackers for democracy Fascism
has shown that the capitalists, far
from "surrendering Internationally"
will go to any resort to keep them
selves in power and maintain the
capitalist system. If not overthrow,
capitalist democracy develops into
fascism. 1t is great crime against
the working class to spread the illu-
sion that capitalists will simply throw
up the sponge, for 1t leaves the
working class unprepared for the
revolutionary struggle. Social-Dem-
ocracy in Germany helped to usher
Hitler in, precisely by finding DEM
ocracy even in the semi-fascist Won
Papen cabinet and by its fear of the
dictatorship of the proletariat."
And Socialist leaders in this coun-
try today speak of the impossibility
of fascism here because of the
"purer" form of democracy. The s..
L. P. has, indeed, worthy bedmates.
Despite revolutionary phrases, they
spread illusions which have the eff
feet OF defending capitalism and
putting the workers to sleep.
A sect, such as the S. L. P. has