The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-27

into the ranks Of the proletariat,
and carry on a violent struggle
against capitalism for the abstract
conception of liberty and equal
ity" which expresses the utopian de-
sire of the enraged petty bourgeoisie
to preserve their individual property
and liberty"
Because of the late development
of capitalism in Spain, the anarch-
lists were able to get foothold, and
carry over their leadership into a
period when the proletariat was
maturing rapidly toward seizure of
power and the establishment of the
proletarian dictatorship.
The anarchist leaders idea is,
since the proletarian dictatorship is
no better than the capitalist die
tatorship, when the one is threat
ened by the other, why take sides?
Furthermore, not believing in pro-
letariat struggles, they fight against
strikes of a political nature, especi-
ally one leading to the armed in
surrection for workers power.
The anarchist leaders fought
against the Soviet Union and the
proletarian dictatorship more Wig
orously than against the capitalist
state, considered by them freer than
proletarian rule, which they called
red imperialism"
Sabotaged General Strike
Hence, when it came to the de-
cisive test, when fascism sought to
establish it's open, brutal dictator
ship, the anarchists, true to their
historical role, sabotaged the gen.
eral strike, the armed uprising for
Catalonian national independence,
and the proletarian revolution and
the es Bills h m mt of Soviets
throughout Spain.
Anarchism, in the person of the
Spanish anarchist leaders, per-
formed a service for Spanish CAPT.
talisnl which its mercenary, Grim
inal Foreign Legion could never
have performed alone with it's most
modern means of mass murder.
The lessons of the Spanish revo-
luton are of international signifi-
canoe, and will have international,
immediate repercussions in the
class struggle and the world battle
against fascism and for Soviet
power.
In recent article in Interna-
tional Press Correspondence on
1.-THE Civil War in Spain and the
international Proletariat," Com
rade Ercoli writes:
THE recent events in Spain have
once again provided a convincing
object lesson of the international
validity of Leninism and Boil
shevism. The victory of the revo-
luton demands revolutionary STRAIT
egg and revolutionary tactics. There
are no revolutionary tactics and
strategy outside the practice and
theory of Bolshevism. =.
1.-THE Octover struggles of the
Spanish masses which revealed this
ineapacity of the socialist leaders
by an acid test, represent de-
ciSive stage in the development of
the Spanish revolution. The work
ing mass of Spain will learn from
their experience. =.
THE Communist Party of Spain
was not only the sole working class
organization which had correct
policy toward all the fundamental
problems of the revolution, but it
was also at the head of the work
ing masses in their struggles in the
october days. The red flag of the
Communist Party waved victori-
ously over the barricades in Astu-
rias and it was carried into the
struggle by the most determined of
the proletarian fighters of the
glorious Commune of &sturias.
The Spanish revolution is still
proceeding. The Spanish bour-
geoisie is we'll aware that the work.
ers and peasants have not suffered
a final defeat, and the fear of fur
ther mass struggles has already
made section of the bourgeoisie