The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
Leninism and the Building of
Socialism in the Soviet Union

have been completed in the main.
Socialist society will have been con-
structed.
Cultural Revolution.
Socialist society presupposes
cultural development ON a high
plane. "a cultural revolution Is
necessary for us in order that we
might find ourselves socialist
country" said Lenin. But for Us
this cultural revolution represents
unbelievable. difficulties, both Of
purely cultural nature because we
are analphabeths) and of a ma
terial nature because in order to
be cultural one must have a Ger
tain development Of the material
means of production, one must
have a certain material basis)."
These difficulties have now been
overcome. The Soviet Union Is no
more illiterate. With 100000
children of. school age in the ele-
11ientary schools, with 80 per cent
of the adult population knowing
how to read and write before the
Revolution, IS per cent OF all the
adults were illiterate), with 2.5 mil
lion workers and peasants in the
universities, institutes, technicums,
workers faculties and trade schools,
the Soviet Union is now the most
cultured country in the world. The
daily circulation OF the papers be-
fore the Revolution was 2,700,000.
In 1882, it was 100000. The
Soviet Union PRODUCES more books
than any other country. The polit-
ical@ understanding of the masses
Of the population cannot be
matched anywhere.
TOGETHER with culture, together
with the organization OF large
scale industry and agriculture,
goes the improvement of the stand
ARD Of living Of the workers and
the masses generally The stand
ards Of living are not yet what the
workers would desire. Yet, wages
rose in the last four years 81 per
cent; housing conditions improved;
the Russian masses eat better and
live better than they ever did in
the history of the Soviet Union;
there Is no unemployment; a vast
system of social insurance provides
for every emergency; a system of
public restaurants, factory kitchens,
etc, provides for the feeding of
ever large masses Today, $4,000, 600
get their meals in socialist restau-
rants. In five years from now,
every man, woman and child in the
U. S. S. r. will be fed in restau-
rants Of q socialist nature. The
woman Is thus freed from being a
kitchen slave. The equality OF
man and woman, equality of youth
and adult, equality Of all nation
alities inhabiting the, Soviet terri
tory-au this tends towards the
establishing OF classics society.
The state itself is being trans
formed from an instrument of
power to an instrument OF eco
nonlic ard cultural advice and
guidance. Socialism is here. We
see it's coming.
THROUGH STRUGGLE
: All this has been achieved in the
midst and by means OF the greatest
struggles. All this has been accom-
panied by great difficulties. Neither
the struggles nor. the difficulties
are over. But the foundation is
firm. The structure is rockbound.
The proletariat understands its
task. The Communist Party, under
the leadership Of its Central Com
mittee, is united, monolithic. The
class struggle will be continued to
the very end, which is Socialism.
May the enemies howl. May the
heroes of the Second International
conduct a vicious campaign of
conspiring with the, imperialists to
crush the Workers Fatherland.
The workers Of the world will stand
firm in defense OF the Soviet Union
and the best Way OF defending it
Is an attack upon home capitalism
for the establishment Of Soviet
Union in place Of the capitalist sys-
tenn. a..