The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-28
Marx On the Bourgeois
State and the Dictn-
tOrShip of the
Pr0letdridt

tOrShjp of the
Proletdridt
TODAY, the Socialist Party in the
United States, in its attempts
TO reclaim" Marxism, covers up
and distorts some of the most i'm
portant revolutionary teachings of
Karl Marx. In their attempt TO
justify their anti-revolutionary po-
sition, the Socialist Party leaders
deny that Marx spoke about the
necessity of the revolutionary over
throw Of capitalism, the capture Of
state power, and the establishment
Of the dictatorship Of the prole-
tariat as a transition to the build
ing of a classics socialist society.
We give here various quotations
from some Of the writings OF Marx
which show the unity of Marx
Engels-Leninist teachings on the
theory Of the state and the die
tatorship Of the proletariat
In the Communist Manifesto
Marx and EngelS state:
THE executive of the modern
state is but a committee for man
aging the common affairs Of the
whole bourgeoisie.''
TN depicting the most general
phases of the development of the
proletariat, we traced the more or
less yelled civil war, raging within
existing society, up to the point
where that war breaks out into
open revolution, and where the
violent overthrow of the bourgeoi-
sic lays the foundation for the
sway Of the pro1etariat.'
IN the Address to the Communist
League, 1850, Marx states:
1.-THE democratic demands can
never satisfy the party OF the pro-
letariat. While the democratic pet
ty bourgeoisie would like to bring
the revolution to close as soon
as their demands are more or less
complied with, it is our interest
and our task to make the revolution
permanent, to keep it going until
all the ruling and possessing class
es are deprived of power, the gov
ernmental machinery occupied by
the proletariat, and the organiza-
ton of the working class of all
lands is so far advanced that all
rivalry and competition among
themselves has ceased; until the
more important forces of produce
ton are concentrated in the hands
Of the proletarians. With us it is
n9t a matter of reforming private
property, but Of abolishing it; not
of hushing up the class antago-
nism, but of abolishing the class
es; not of ameliorating the exist
ing society, but Of establishing a
new one"
IN April IL, 1871, at the very
v time of the Paris Commune,
Marx in letter to Kugelmann,
states:
If you look at the last
chapter of my Eighteenth Bru-
MARIE, you will see that I declare
the next attempt of the French
Revolution to be: not merely to
transfer the bureaucratic and mill
tary machinery from one set of
hands to anoGher-as has occurred
hitherto-buC TO break it up (orig-
inal emphasis; and this is the
preliminary condition of any real
peoples revolution on the CONT
nent. This is exactly what the at
tempt of our heroic Partisan COM
rades implies"
MARX in a letter to Weidemein,
Nt dated March 5, 1852, states:
GAS far as L am concerned, the
honor does not belong to me for
either having discovered the ex-
istence of classes in present So
ciety or of the struggle between the
classes. Bourgeois historians a long
time before me eXpounded the
historical development of this class
war and the bourgeois economists
the economical structure Of classes.
What I did, was to prove the fol-
lowing: u That the existence of
classes is connected only with Ger
tain historical struggles which are
characteristic Of the development
of production. D That class war
indispensably leads TO the dictator
ship of the proletariat. 81 That this
dictatorship is only a transition to
the destruction of any classes and
to society without classes.