The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-23

establishment and the definitive
consolidation Of socialism"
WHAT will the Soviets Of France
W offer to the peasants?
"S0il to those who till II!
I'VE will overthrow the rule of
the big landowners, we will ex-
prOpriate their land without in
densnity and we will hand it over
to the working peasants; we will
abolish mortgage-debts which
weigh on the poor peasants; we
will bring to the agricultural pro-
letariat the same working condi-
tions as those Of the city, we will
win over the millions of peasant
workers to the cause Of socialist
construction"
The Soviets Of France will abol-
ish the antagonism between city
and country. They will abolish the
conflicting cultural differences. And
for the tyranny Of the range-keeper,
the gendarme and the project, they
will substitute the collaboration of
the workers and peasants in the So
Wet assemblies.
What will the Soviets of France
offer to the petty-bourgeoisie?
Has not the depression taught it
what the rule of big capital means?
What privileges does it wish to re-
tain TODAY against the proletsriat?
STEPPED in debt, on the brink of
bankruptcy and ruin. the petty
bourgeoisie breads its imminent
proletarianization.
Under the domination Of capital,
its sons cannot find a market for
the so-called liberal professions
which they have chosen. They are
called upon to vegetate or become
"declassed." Let them work with
the proletariat for the establish
ment and maintenance of a Soviet
Francel If the youth had precise
knowledge of what the Soviets are,
it would begin today to rally to it
zen masse."
The Soviets Of France will offer
to the y-bourgeoisie the cancel
lation of its debts, as the Commune
did for the merchants. shop-keepers
and business men of Paris, "the
rich capitalists excepted" (Karl
Marx, Civil War in France'D. The
Soviets of France will offer to the
members of the middle class in
stead of these Jobs which make
capitalists Wallets out Of them, work
which will enable them to prove
their attachment to the cause Of
all workers.
The engineer, the architect, the
writer, have in the land of the So
VETS assumed place which the
bourgeoisie, knowing no law but the
one of cold cash payment, has
granted only to those among them
who were not only engineers, archi-
tects, writer's, but also. and above
all, capitalists or the servants of the
money dictatorship.
AND among the middle class, as
II among the peasantry. the idea
Of the Soviets is also taking shape.
Haven't we seen in a number of
quarters of Paris on the 18th of
February. the small business men
close their stores in sympathy with
the General Strike? Are they not
the middle class element-those
functionaries who demonstrated on
Jan. 20 on the Chatelet So. to the
cry of For a World Soviet? Are
they not middle class clements
those intellectuals. already number
ing more than 5000, who, facing the
fascist menace. have placed them
selves at the disposal Of the work
ers' organizations, and whom I saw
applaud at the cry For a World
Soviet!"?
For World Soviet. This cry sums
up the hope and combativeness of
all classes which join with the revo-
lutionary proletariat, for the over
throw of the bourgeoisie and the
establishment of the dictatorship
Of the proletariat.
.For World Soviet This cry Is
the cry of confidence in the prole-
tariat and its vanguard, the Com
munist Party!
1t is the cry which is raised
against the poisonous swamp of the
depression, which energies from the
industrial prisons, from the misery
of the country, from the inferno of
French colonial Imperialism.
For World Soviet! This cry is
also that of United Action, because
it is the voice of the masses de-
handing the creatioA of the most
widespread organizations of the
United Front. the Soviets-the So
VETS which knew how to lead the
revolutionary workers of Russia to
victory and without which this vic
tory could never have been pos
sible.
For a World Soviet Long live
the Soviets of Francel
Leninism. by Stain. p. IS; In
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