The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-10
By ROBERT MINOR

In this month IS celebrated the
fifteenth anniversary Of the found
ing OF the Communist Interna-
tORal, which is the heir and con-
tinuatOr Of tae best revolutionary
traditions, the leader Of the pres
ent General staff Of the World
Revolution.
IN lS47, on the eve Of revolutionary
i struggles throughout Europe, the
first great programmatic document
Of scientific socialism, the Commu-
mist Manifesto, was written.
a.. that the first step in the rev.
olution by the working class is to
raise the proletariat to the posi-
ton of ruling class, to establish
democracy.
"The proletariat will use its
political supremacy to wrest by
degrees all capital from the bOur-
geOisie, to centralize all instru-
ments of production in the hands
Of the state, i.e., of the proletariat
organized as the ruling class; and
to increase the total of productive
forces as rapidly as possible"
IN THIS, formulated by Marx and
1 Engels 81 years ago, we have the
germ Of the revolutionary program
which was to be developed during
the epoch Of Imperialism by Lenin
and to be realized through the pro-
letarian revolution Of october 1917.
Cd The Dictatorship of the Pro-
letarian revolution Of October 1917:
the position of ruling class" and
the concept of this dictatorship as
establishing democracy" the
highest type of democracy" as
Lenin described the Soviet system,
without which new kind Of demo-
crazy, for the proletarians and the
dispossessed; a new kind of die
tatorship, against the bourgeoisie, 3"
the building Of Socialism is impos-
sible).
90 The appropriation of capital
Of the means Of production. with
the Capitalization of industry in
the hands Of the proletarian Soviet
state; and
CD The increase of the total of
productive forces as rapidly as pos
sible"-what is this? Can we not
see in it that which, nearly a CEN
tury after Marx wrote it, under
the leadership of Stain became the
"Proorann of. Great Wc~l5s." known
to the world as the Give Year
Plan?
IN 1854 the International Working
ingmen's Association - the First
Observation-Disclosures founded in Lon
don by Marx and Engels.
HThe First International laid the
foundation of the proIetarian in
ternational struggle for Social
ism."-Lenin.
Upon this foundation, the strug-
gle led through stormy times. In
1871 the Paris Commune famed
across the sky for the. proletariat Of
the whole world, the first example
in living reality of the proletarian
State. In the Manifesto we find the
dictatorship of the proIetaIia It
uas fTcn this time forward that
Marx and Fngels were able to give
a more precise formulation of "the
State, /. E., the proIetariat organized
as the ruling class. from the date of
the Paris Commune Marx spoke Of
he Dictatorship Of the Probe
tariat." THE proletariat cannot
simply lay hold of the ready-msde
State machinery and WELD it for its
own purposes'-but must break it
up"
The Paris Commune brought, on
the basis Of historical experience. a
higher development of the revolu-
tionary Marian program. The DE-
ta-orship of the proletariat became
established clearly as the revolu-
tionary course.
Disruption by petty-bourgeois
confusionists and adventures came
after the defeat of the Paris Com