The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07

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the Bolshevik Party which achieved
the historic honor of being the
first to break through the ring of
capitalism, have written of the les
sons of the October Revolution.
Elsewhere in this issue is reprinted
the article of Stain summing up
the fundamental meaning of the
October Revolution.
But for us in this country, in this
country of the Roosevelt New Deal
in the fifth year of the crisis, what
are the lessons which the October
Revolution holds for us, and for the
great mass of the toiling popula-
ton of the country?
Today the life Of the great mai
ority of the people of the country
the workers and impoverished
farmers, is a life of misery, hunger,
insecurity, perpetual fear of evic-
tions, mortgage foreclosures, loss OF
work.
Have Solved Problems
In the Soviet Union today the
workers and farmers have solved all
these problems.
1t is the way that they solved
these problems, the example that
they set for the rest Of the work.
ers Of the world, that is of the
greatest significance today for the
workers and impoverished farmers
of this country.
What are the essentials of this
example which the october Revo-
luton set for the toilers of the
world, oppressed by capitalist ex-
ploitation and imperialist oppres-
sion?
Stain in his interview with H
G. Wells recently made many OF
these essentials crystal clear
You have anarchy in production
crisis, unemployment, hunger, and
insecurity, Stain in effect told the
American workers. You want to get
rid of these things. But how? BY
planning? But it is impossible for
capitalism, for Roosevelt and Wall
Street, to get rid Of the anarchy OF
production, Stain pointed out to
the American working class. And
he gave the reason:
mo capitalist will ever agree
at any price to complete the abol-
ition Of unemployment, the aboli-
ton of the reserve army of I'M
employed whose mission is to put
pressure on the labor market to
ensure low paid workers. Here,
then is the first big gap In the
planned economy of the capital
list society"
Further, Stain gave the next
fundamental reason why the work.
ers and Impoverished farmers OF
this country can never hope to
achieve planned society without
overthroWing capitalism
"You can never compel a cap
italist to cause himself losses and
consent to lower rate of profit
for the sake of satisfying the
public requirements" Stain
pointed out.
In short, before the workers and
impoverished farmers of the coun-
try can hope to rid themselves of
the yoke Of capitalist robbery, hun
ger, crises, and insecurity, they
must do one necessary thing-they
must abolish that which stands in
the way of real planned economy
the capitalist system and the capt.
talist class. In revolutionary way
they must abolish the capitalist
state and set up their own state
the dictatorship of the proletariat
A Revolutionary Lesson
Such is the revolutionary lesson
Of the October Revolution, the in
ternational lesson which holds good
for every country in the world where
the capitalist class dominates the
life of the country.
Capitalist Democracy
Yesterday 100000 people
mostly workers and small farmers
voted on election day. But did this
mean that the majority of the toll
ing people of the country are tax
ing real part in running the
country, that they are participat-
ing in truly democratic way in
ruling themselves?
This democracy under Roosevelt
and the capitalist system is fraud
There can be no real democracy
for the majority of the people of
this country, the toiling people,
until they liberate themselves from
the exploitation of capital, the
rule Of the Wall Street rr1onopolies.
How can there be democracy,
Lenin and the Bolsheviks asked, if
the majority of the population must
depend on a handful of capitalist
employers, bankers, landlords, who
own and control the country's econ
oftic life? How can there be real
democracy for the majority of the
people in this country if the Wall
Street trusts control the means of
production and the state?
And the Bolsheviks proceeded to
establish real, proletarian demo-
cracy for the toiling population by
leading the masses in smashing the
state power of the capitalists, and
setting up a new form of state
power, the Soviet Power in the
form of workers and farmers
councils Economically elected in
the factories and on the farms.
1.-THE proletarian dictatorship
gives the masses a million times
more democracy than is even con-
ceivable under capitalist democracy"
Lenin declared. This is the second
international lesson of the October
Revolution which Is of the greatest