The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-25
Capitalist Dictatorship

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THE striking workers of Toledo and
1 Minneapolis have now come face to
face with the Government.
Naked bayonets, poison gas, machine
guns, murderous brutality-that is how
the Government looks when it is stripped
of all its hypocritical rot about "democ-
racy" and the "rule of the people"
Not only the striking workers, but the working
class of the whole country can now see for them
selves what lies behind the traditional lies about
democratic" rule under a capitalist government.
The press, the schools, the church, the radio
and the movies all din into the ears Of the masses
that the Government is of and by the people.
Yet when the working class menaces too much
the profits of the employers it always sends troops
against the workers and their families, acting as
the executive committee of the ruling class MARX
The capitalist government doesn't care that the
workers and their families are starving. The cap
italist government no matter whether it hides its
face behind the clouds Of Roosevelt promises or
Hoover lies always takes the side Of property and
profits against the needs Of the masses. Its main
interest is to protect the employers profits and the
profit system.
All capitalist governments, whether they are
cloaked by democratic" hypocrisies, whether they
OF the Roosevelt OF mower StLlpS Gllcy
the dictatorship of the Wall Street monopohes and
capitalist corporations against the working masses,
And this dictatorship, in the last analysis, rests
upon naked military violence, which is unsheathed
In all its savagery whenever the masses begin to
threaten its rule.
In the present stage of the crisis every strug-
gle Of the workers FOR their immediate needs in
evitaby brings them into open conflict with the
whole capitalist state power. The economic strug-
giles have reached the stage where they are be-
coming political struggles against capitalist rule.
THE army, said Lenin, consists of workers and
l farmers in uniform. This is the fatal weakness,
the Achilles heel of the capitalist military suppress
sive machine.
Within the armed troops itself the class struggle
penetrates This is given remarkable proof in the
latest dispatches from the strike area. In dis
patch which was expurgated from all the later edi-
tons the United Press reports
The local National Guard not mobiliEed
because military authorities and local authorities
thought it inadvisable to ask soldiers to charge
their own townsmen."
Soldiers are not orphans. In action, they may
shoot down brothers, fathers, relatives. That is
why the Government is fearful of risking the grisy
savagery of charge against their own townsmen"
We must say to the soldiers You shoot
ing your own kind and kin. You are defending the
class that hates and Expresses you as well as us
The Wall Street government Expresses You too. You
belong with u.s. not against us"
without softening by single hair the fighting
militancy of the workers. must, at the same
time, strive for determination of the troops with
the strikers wherever possible.
WE COMMUNISTS following the revolutionary
W teachings of our leaders MarxS Engels, Lenin
and Stain, expose the fact that all capitalist gov
ernments are really relationships Of the property
classes.
We Communists struggle to lead the working
class against the employers for better wages, for
better conditions.
But always we say that the exploiting bloody,
criss-ridden rule of the employers the Wall Street
rule based on bayonets, can be ended only by set
ting up a proletarian dictatorship, government of
workers and farmers, Soviet Government. Then
the power will be on the side of the working class
against the exploiting class.