The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-10
Communist International Celebrates
18th Year UnderLenin, Stain Banner;
En'bodies Teachings Of Mara, EngeLs

mune, and with the consequent re-
action The First international had
gone as far as it could under the
circumstances. It's liquidation was
practically accomplished with the
shifting Of the headquarters from
Europe to New York in 1872. But
the fruits Of the First International
were not lost.
The sos brought the death Of
Marx 1889, and his work was con-
tinued by his great collaboration,
Engels.
IN 1889, the 2nd International was
founded.
''The 2nd international pre-
pared the ground for a wide ex-
tension of the movement in a
number of es."-Lenin.
By the COS, the recognition Of
Marxism as the theology of the IN
ternational Socialist movement, be-
came general. Friedrich Engels,
Marks collaboration, carried on his
work and brought to completion the
monumental 'Das Kapital." Engels'
contributions, both during and after
the life Of Marx, represented, not
only basic collaboration in the crea-
ton of scientific socialism. but
helped greatly to enrich the devel-
opment Of clarity in the revolution
airy program.
It is notable that at the death OF
F. Engels, 1895, the great successor
Of Marx and Engels, in Russia,
Vladimir I. Lenin, was already In
his early maturity. and had begun
his revolutionary life work, and had
already produced the beginning of
his wide and profound literary
contributions.
The close of Engels' life and the
coming to maturity Of Lenin coin
cided with the opening Of the epoch
Of modern imperialism. A series Of
wars of conquest by the major
capitalist countries began: Spanish
American War, 1898; the advance
Of British, Belgian and French i'm
perialism in Africa; the interven-
ton in China against the Boxer
uprising" 1900; and the Boer
War Of Great Britain against the
Dutch republics of South Africa
(1903. Throughout the whole
world, the export of capital by the
great industrial countries and the
enforcement of inperialist war over
weaker peoples, with double inten-
sive exploitation and oppression Of
colonial workers and peasantS-the
ruthless plumber of the rest Of the
world by few great powers-be-
came the basis of immense increases
in the wealth of the imperialists.
On the basis of these super profits,
a great advance in the standard Of
living of the more skilled sections of
the working class, labor aristoc-
racy," engendered a widespread de-
generation of the revolutionary
theology Of the labor movement.
With the dawn of the twentieth
century, and with the dawn of the
epoch Of imperialism, there was in
general an adaptation Of the Second
International to the outlook of the
more skilled sections of the work
ing-class with their higher standard
Of living, and partnership" in
colonial oppression, and adaptation
to the outlook Of The high salaried
labor leaders, and the Socialist
ministers Of capitalist governments.
In Czarist Russia, under the fire
Of intense class struggle, there was
being built up the Russian Social
Democratic Labor Parry, in the
leadership Of which the strong hand
Of the young Lenin was beginning
to be decisive. The struggle led by
Lenin against the opportunist cor
ruption in the international became
decisive in the course of irtcrna-
tional development when in 1903
the Marxist revolut ionary Socialists
broke from the opportunist section
of the Party AMI founded the sep
arate Bclshevik Party.
1t was in the building Of this
party and its hardening and train
ing in the three revolutions that