The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
Manifesto of Communist International
on 5Oth Anniversary of Marks Death

MOSCOW, March 13.-On the &C.
casion of the Fiftietsl Anniversary of
the death of Karl Marx, the founder
Of the theory and practice of the
proletarian revolutionary movement,
the Executive Committee of the
Communist International published a
declaration to the working men and
women of all countries and to the
oppressed masses of the entire world.
Fifty years ago, on March IA, 1883,
Karl Marx, the greatest thinker and
the greatest revolutionary in the his
tory Of mankind. died. He was the
man, the declaration states, who
proved that wealth and poverty do
not arise from the unalterable laws
of nature or god; the man who
proved that tyranny and Slavery are
the result of a definite mode of pro-
duction and the social institutions
that arise therefrom; and which in
stitutions are created and overthroWn
by classes struggling against one an
other.
''E1e was the man." continues the
declaration, who discovered the Sec
ret of capitalist society, the secret
of the accumulation of capital on
the basis of the exploitation of the
working class.
"1e showed that capitalism is Gre
ating for its own humiliation and
the establishment of socialism by the
gravedigger of capitalisln-the mo-
dern working class. He showed that
the working class, in the struggle a.
gainst the exploiting classes will de-
stroy them and build a classics SOC
iety. He was the man who founded
and led the first international CThe
International Workingmen's Associ-
atom.
yiceory of Marxisn
con this fiftieth anniversary OF the
death of Karl Marx, when we look
at the world, we see revealed a pic
ture of the historic victory of Marx
ism. Socialism is already being con-
structed in one sixth of the surface
Of the inhabitable globe-in the
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics.
'Marxisn1 is the science OF the
working class which not only ex-
plains the world, but also shows the
proletariat how to transform the
world. The struggle for Marxism was
and is an inseparable part Of the
struggle of the working class against
the capitalist class"
Attempts to Destroy Marxism
The spread of Marxisin, the decla-
ration points out, led to attempts to
destroy Marxism by falsitication.
Headed by Karl Kautsky, the cen
trists created the theoretical basis
for the policy of collaboration with
the capitalist class. Instead of the
revolutionary overthrow of the capt.
talist state, they advocated peaceful
reforms through parliament. Instead
of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
they proposed the peaceful growing
Of capitalism into socialism.
"This refornlist conception acquired
general sway in the parties of the
Second International after the death
Of Frederick Ergels, the great COM
panion-i n-a arms of Karl Marx, Rev
dictionary Marxism was abandoned
in the Second International when
capitalism entered the phase of i'm
perialism.
The Great Betrayal of 1914
cat the beginning OF the imperial
tst war in 1914 the Socialist Parties
went over to the side of their own
imperialism and helped the capital
ist class drive worker against worker
and peasant against peasant in world
slaughter.
ut was precisely at this time that
Lenin, the equal of Karl Marx and
Frederick Engels, the founder and
leader of the Bolshevist Party, the
only consistent MARKHAM revolutionary
Party, raised the banner of revolu-
tionary proletarian internationalisn,
the banner of the Third Internation-
al, and called for the turning of the
impe7ialist war between the imperial