The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
Two-Faced Policy Of S.P., Its Support Of
Var Revealed in ''MiI,Uaukee Leader"

tirely separate and apart from the
Soviet Government and that they
have no control over it. Two cog
wheels are separate also, but they
work together. The Soviet Gov
eminent could easily curb the
third international if it wanted
to-"
Whenever a capitalist government
wants to provoke war against the
Soviet Union or break off relations
it utilities this WORKOUT platitude
about propaganda" Third Inter
national" Soviet Agents" etc. Anc
now the Socialist Milwaukee Leader
resorts to the same form so that
when the signal for a war of inter
vention is given, it can justify inn
perialism and at the same time helr
the American capitalist class to de-
clare civil war against the American
Communist Party, a section of the
Third International.
Social Fascism is preparing the
crusade against the Soviet Union
under the guise of defending demo-
crazy. In fact, it says: 1.-THE work.
ing class can only come to Socialism
on the basis of Democracy" At the
conference of the Second Interna-
tional held in Paris, Social Fascism
once more emphasized its opposition
to the dictatorship of the prole-
tariat. This problem is very impor-
tant, for the question of the die
tatorship of the proletariat sepa-
rates Communism from Social
Democracy.
rs 1T true that the Communists,
as well as the Fascists, are in favor
of dictatorship, while the Socialists
are in favor of democracy? To place
the question in this manner is a
distortion of the Communist posi-
ton. The Communists are not in
favor of dictatorship in general. The
Communists strive to establish a
prOletarian dictatorship. The living
example Of this can be seen in the
Soviet Union where the Proletarian
Dictatorship expresses itself in the
form of Soviets and real democracy
exists for the toiling majority, not
in words but in practice of everyday
life.
When the Soviet Union was first
established, the enemies of the
working class, among them Karl
Kautsky and other leaders of Social
Democracy, attempted to discredit
the workers republic by slanderous
attacks against it. They stated that
the Soviets are denial of pure
democracy and that dictatorship
no matter what kind, is bad, etc.
Although Comrade Lenin was alb
sorbed in the daily practical work
of the Party and the Soviet Gov
eminent, he took time to answer
those who distorted the teachings of
Marx about the question of democ-
racy and dictatorship. At the first
congress of the Communist Inter-
national, Lenin introduced his thesis
on bourgeoisie democracy and pro-
letarian dictatorship. This docu-
ment is the clearest expression of
the Communist position on this
question. Lenin answered the agents
of the capitalist class as follows
In the first place, this argu-
ment uses the notions democracy
in general and dictatorship in
general without introducing the
motive of class. Such manner
of framing the question, putting
it outside or above the class point
of view, is direct mockery of the
fundamental principle of Social
ism; the doctrine of class war is
doctrine much accepted in
speeches and easily forgotten in
practice by such Socialists as have
gone over to the camp of the
enemies. For in none Of the civ
ilized capitalistic countries is there
such a thing as democracy in
general nor is the dictatorship in
question dictatorship in general
but dictatorship of the OPP
pressed over the oppressors, of the
exploited over the expIoiters, to
the end of conquering their re-
sistance in the struggle for power"
In the United States we have not
democracy in general but capt.
talist democracy. That this demo-
cracy is in the interest of the ex-
ploiters is obvious to the more class
conscious sections of the working
class. To safeguard the interests OF
capitalism, the capitalist state ma
chinery, judiciary, army, police, etc.
is modified to shoot and Jail strik-
erS who threaten the profits of the
trusts. In many cities and towns
in the U. S. there are no such things
as free speech and assemblage. Even
in the Socialist city of Milwaukee
the revolutionary working class has
to struggle to obtain the right tc
use the municipal auditorium fol-
meetings. Lenin was correct in
pointing out that even the most
democratic bourgeois government is
the dictatorship Of the capitalist
class. The disclosures in the
Senates' investigation of the house
of Morgan clearly exposed before
the masses the fact that the gov
eminent is Wall Street govern
ment.
In the Soviet Union, the situation
is reversed. There, under the pro-
letarian dictatorship, the worker;
rule. The Soviet state is an instru-