The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04

ment against the NRA hunger and
war program.
The Communists, of course, cannot
be satisfied with merely winning one
or number of immediate demands.
Their aim is to overthrow the capi-
talist system and build a Socialist
society. They therefore look upon
these demands as a means of setting
tire workers into motion towards file
ultimate goal. Immediate demands
can be likened to stairway leading
to the revolution.
But this does not mean that the
Communists are not interested in
winning these immediate demands.
For victories won as the result OF
the action of the workers themselves
strengthens the organizations of the
workers and their class consciousness.
The struggle exposes the role of labor
takers and other enemies of the
workers The workers find them
selves at higher stage from which
they can push ahead to further VIC
tories 1t is precisely the task Of
the Communists to see to 1t that
the workers do not rest contented
with a single victory, but push on
to further victories, learning at the
same time the necessity of over
throwing capitalism and how it Is
to be done. Only in this way can
the working class be marshalled and
led in the attack against capitalism.
The rapid development of the pro-
letarian revolution during the period
between March and November, 1917,
in Russia was, to a large manner,
due to the ability of the Bolsheviks
to lead the masses in their struggle
for peace, bread and land-to the
very seizure of the state power. The
revolution developed from thousands
of inlmedt tie demands. which under
the situation, led into the main
stream OF the proletarian revolution.
1t is on this basis that the Conn
nunist Party has developed a pro-
gram expressing the day-to-day needs
not only of the workers, but OF their
allies, the farmers and Negro people.
The G. P, moreover, does not do this
in an abstract manner. It does it
by organizing and leading the work
ers in their struggles-by being q.
Party, not for the workers only, but
of the workers. And at no time does
it lead the workers to believe that
by the winning Of this or that inn
mediate demand will everything be
settled. On the contrary, 1t always
agitates for further steps, always
carries on propaganda in all struggles
exposing the role Of the state and
the broader aims of the working class.
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
The cleft" and revolutionary sound
ing phrases of the SIP. have q hol-
low ring when confronted with their
theory as regards the dictatorship Of
the proletariat, to say nothing OF
their actions. DeLeon and after him
his apostles contend that no dicta-
torship of the proletariat Will be
necessary after the overthrow OF
capitalism and that there will be
even less need at that time Tor a
revolutionary working class party
While this, they say, may not be true
in Europe, the U. S. is an exception
Whenever anyone claims an "excep-
ton" for q fundamental principle OF
the working class movement, you
may be sure that he is but seeking
for an excuse to reject that principle.
Their arguments remind us OF more
recent "exceptionalists'' (Arnerican
history is full of them, the DeLeon-
ties were neither the first nor the
last)-tlae followers of Lovestone, who
we're expelled from the Communist
Party in 1929 as renegades because
they argued that America was diff
ferent" and that the policy OF the
international Communist movement
did not therefore apply to these pre-
cocious states.
Concluded Tomorrow