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

jected. The only choice is between
the two sides of the struggle.
If bourgeois property wins the
immediate fight, at the expense of
the masses of the population and
by destroying vast wealth and pro-
ductive forces, this by no means
represents any permanent solution
of the problem. 1t only reproduces
the contradictions on higher scale,
with a more violent crisis ensuing.
That is why the more successful
are the immediate policies Of Roose-
welt, for example, the deeper grow
the general difficulties, contradic-
tions and antagonisms.
But if the progressive forces in
society overcome bourgeois property,
then history leaps forward to new
and higher stage. Then a planned
utilization of the full productive
possibilities once and for all releases
humanity from the tyranny of man
over man and Of nature and things
over man: mankind energies into
the era of freedom.
This is possible because today, as
distinct from past revolutionary
periods of history, the revolutionary
class is the working class. which is
itself the greatest productive force,
which is the foundation of society,
and which cannot free itself with
out freeing the whole human race.
AS Marx and Engels said:
"Of all the classes that stand
face to face with the bourgeoisie
today, the proletariat alone is a
really revolutionary class. The
other classes decay and finally
disappear in the face of modern
industry; the proletariat is its
special and essential product H.. :"
"All previous historical move
ments were movements of minori-
ties, or in the interest of r1inori-
ties. The proletarian movement
is the self-conscious, independent
movement Of the advanced major
ity. The proletariat, the lowest
stratum of our present society,
cannot stir, cannot raise itself up,
without the whole superintendent
strata of official society being
sprung into the air -"
"The modern laborer instead
Of rising with the progress of in
dustry, sinks deeper and deeper
below the existence of his own
class. He becomes a pauper, and
pauperism develops more rapidly
than population and wealth. And
here it becomes clear that the
bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to
be the ruling class in society, and
to impose its conditions of exist
ence upon society as an overrid-
ing law. 1t is unfit to rule, be-
cause it is incompetent to insure
an existence to its slave within
his slavery, because it cannot help
letting him sink into such state
that it has to feed him, instead
of being fed by him. Society can
no longer live under this bour-
geoisie; in other words, its exis-
tence is no longer compatible with
society. The DEVELOPMENT of
modern industry therefore, cuts
from under its feet the very foun-
dation on which the bourgeoisie
produces and appropriates prod
ucts What the bourgeoisie, there
fore, produces above all, are its
own grave-diggers. It's fall and
the victory of the proletariat are
equally inevitable"
Engels on Planning
What is the effect upon the pro-
ductive forces of the overthrow OF
capitalist power, and the establish
ment of working class govern
ment? Let us take the answer from
the words of Engels, written in 1883,
showing for how long have the lead
ers Of the working class been study
ing the problem of social-economic
planning:
With the Selling of the means
of production by society. produc-
ton of commodities is done away
with and. simultaneously, the mas
terry of the product over the pro-
Queer. Anarchy in social produc-
tion is replaced by systematic,
definite organization. The struggle
for individual existence disap-
pears. Then for the first time,
man, in certain sense, is finally
marked off from the rest of the
animal kingdom and emerges from
mere animal conditions Of exis-
tence into really human ones.
Mans own social organization,
hitherto confronting him as a
necessity imposed by nature and
history, now becomes the result
of his own free action. Il. Only
from that time will man himself.
more and more consciously, make
his own history-only from that
time will the social causes set in
movement by him have in the