The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22


needs. Now we discover Hearst de-
liberately distorting sections Of the
program of the Communist Internal
tional. We print herewith that Sec
ton of the program Of the Commu
mist International from which
Hearst takes few sentences, re-
writes them to suit his own poison
propaganda needs. Not satisfied
with this, Hearst's scribblers add
whole sections which do not exist
In the original. For example, Hearst
for days now has been reprinting
what he claims is a quotation from
the Program of the Communist IN
ternational, adopted at its Sixth
Congress in 1928. We print below
the Section on THE Period Of
Transition from Capitalism to So
cialism and the Dictatorship Of the
Proletariat," which is Of the great
est Importance in view of present
events in the Soviet Union.
Concocts Quotation
Hearst, for example, conoocts the
following spurious quotation THE
conquest Of power by the proletariat
is the violent abolition of the power
of the bourgeoisie, the destruction
of the machinery Of the capitalist
state.
I'VE proclaim openly that our de-
sign can only be realized by the
violent overthrow of the entire ira
ditionaI social order"
Here the trick is obvious, by par
italy accurate quotation, though
with tricky capitalization, and by
absolute dissertation of other sec
tons, Hearst tries to give his read
erS picture of Communism which
is absolutely false.
The section of the program, print
ed below, which Hearst distorts,
reads as follows: 1.-THE conquest of
power by the proletariat is the vio-
lent overthrow Of bourgeois power,
the destruction of the capitalist
state apparatus bourgeois armies,
police, bureaucratic hierarchy, the
judiciary, parliaments, etc. and
substituting in its place new organs
OF proletarian power, to serve pri-
marily as instruments of suppress
sion Of the exploiters."
Explained in the Text
This is fully explained in the fol-
lowing text itself:
". THE PERIOD OF TRANSIT
TION FROM CAPITALISM TO
SOCIALISM AND THE DICTA-
TORSHTP OF THE PROLE-
TARIAT.
l. The Transition Period and the
Conquest of Power by the Prole-
ta<iat.
BETWEEN capitalist society and
- Communist society a period of
revolutionary Transformation in
tervenes, during which the one
changes into the other. Corre-
spondingly, there is also an in
tervening period of political tran
sitiOn, in which the essential
State form is the revolutionary
dictatorship of the proletariat.
The transition from the world
dictatorship of Imperialism to the
world dictatorship of the prole-
tariat extends over a long period
of proletarian struggles with de-
featS as well as victories; a period
of continuous general crisis in cap
1talist relationships and growth of
social revolutions, i. e., of probe
tartan civil wars against the bOur-
geoisie; period of national wars
and colonial rebellions which, al
though not in themselves revoIu-
tionary proletarian socialist move
ments, are, nevertheless, objec-
lively, insofar as they undermine
the domination of Imperialism,
constituent parts of the world
proletarian revolution: a period in
which capitalist and socialist
economic and social systems exist
side by side in peaceful" rela-
tionships as well as in armed con-
flict; a period of formation of a
Union of Soviet Republics; a
period in which the ties between
the Soviet States and the colonial
peoples become more and more
closely established, etc.
Uneven economic and political
Development is an absolute law
of capitalism. This unevenness is
still more pronounced and acute
in the epoch of Imperialism.
Hence, 1t follows that the inter
national prcietarian revolution
cannot be conceived as a single
event occurring simultaneously all
over the world; at first socialism
may be victorious in a few, or
even in one single capitalist coun-
try. Every such proletarian vic
tory, however, broadens the basis
of the world revolution and con-
Sequently still further intensifies
the general crisis of capitalism.
Thus, the capitalist system as a
whole reaches the point of its
final collapse; the dictatorship of
finance capital perishes and gives
place to the dictatorship of the
proIetariat.
Bourgeois revolutions brought
about the political liberation of a
system of productive relationships
that had already established itself
and become economically DOM
inant, and transferred political
power from the hands of one class
of exploiters to the hands of an