The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24

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order to bleed the rising revolution
airy tempo Of the masses-hoping
to bleed it into decisive defeat. AS
Madariaga, outstanding Spanish lib
ersl writer declared, in a special
article to the Hearst papers, on
Nov. 10, defending the fascist
butchery, the Spanish prole-
tarist held a loaded gun of the
threat of revolution at the head Of
the republic turning fascist. The
aims Of the bourgeoisie was to get
the proletariat to shoot so that its
weapons would be unloaded. The
proletarian revolution is maya
zine with a variety of ammunition
always retaining a last bullet for
the enemy. The weapon was not
held in firm hands and was not
aimed properly.
Aim of BOurgeOisie
Madrid proved to the hilt the
declaration of the Communist
Party of Spain: 1.-THE revolution
does not just occur, it is organized"
Instruction, as Lenin pointed out,
is an art. The organization of
revolution cannot be restricted to
shock troops prepared to do any
thing" but must bring into the Of
fensive the whole forces of the
working class, and must arouse into
action the great peasant masses.
The workers did not know who,
where and under what forms of
struggle the revolution was being
led, and what organs of power
should be set up.
The Socialist leaders did not
know and could not apply the les
sons Of instruction taught by
Marx, and so brilliantly developed
by Lenin and confirmed by the vic
torious Russian Revolution. ITO be
successful" wrote Lenin in his ar
ticle on "Marxism and Uprising,
the uprising must be based not on
a conspiracy, not on a party, but
on the advanced class. This is the
first point. The uprising must be
based on the revolutionary upsurge
of the people. This is the second
point. The uprising must be based
on the crucial point in the history
of the maturing revolution, when
the activity of the vanguard of the
people is at its height, when the
vacilIatiOns in the ranks of the enc
mics, and in the ranks of the weak,
half hearted, undecided friends Of
the revolution are at their highest
point. This is the third point. "a.
But once these conditions exist,
then to refuse to treat the uprising
as an art means to betray MarXism
and the revolution" Oenin's en-
phasis)
Waited For the Fascists
The Socialist leaders did not pick
the crucial point, waiting for the
fascists to take the initiative. When
they did go into action, they did
not base themselves on the mass
struggles at their height. nor did
they treat the uprising as an art
and failed to organize it for the
victory which could have been
achieved.
What happened in Catalonia
turned the tide of events. For four
hundred years, the central rulers
of Spain have been trying to unity
Catalonia with the rest of Spain.
When the 1881 republic was estab-
lished, the Catalonian people
achieved a restricted measure of
national independence which was
fast being curbed as the demo-
cratic measures of the republic
were being whitfield away by the
right, and later by the fascist de-
Yelopments.
The crisis in the Samper govern
ment, which led to the formation of
the Lerroux- Robes fascist regime,
and the armed uprising was pre-
cipitated over the agrarian-national
question in Catalonia. The Cata-
lonian Generahdad Qocal govern
ment) some months before the
clash had passed an agrarian law,