The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
0ttOBauer DiStOrtS
EngeIS to Justify
His BetrayalS
Uses Notorious Forgery
to Justify Failure to
Take Power
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that it cannot win in revolutionary
struggle against its oppressors.
But it was Marx himself who gave
the most crushing answer to the
SociaI-Democratic philistines who
warned the working class against
preparing for armed struggle. Writ
ing in the 'Neue Rheinische Zeit-
ung,' Marx declared:
"The cannibals Of counter-revO-
luton will teach the people that
there is only one means to shorten,
TO minimize, to concentrate the
murderOus death-agonies of the
old society and the bloody birth
agOnies of the new, only one
means-revolutiOnary terrorism"
This goes to the heart of the mat
ter. It is precisely by armed, reso-
Lutte, revolutionary assault against
the fortresses Of capitalism that the
proletariat will be able to reduce
bloodShed and violence to a mini
mum. To hesitate. to preach sub
mission, to preach the peaceful
path to Socialism" as the Socialist
leaders all over the world do, Is to
avoid temporary battle only in
order to leave the masses in the
hands of the imperialist war makers
who slaughter millions upon mil
lions in defense Of their profits.
A true Marxist party follows in
the path of Marx and Engels. This
is how Lenin led the Bolsheviks to
victory in the Soviet Union. Such
a party organizes the workers to
fight, day by day, against the bour-
geoisie. always leading the struggles
higher and higher to the final goal
what Marx himself called "the
smashing of the bourgeois state
power"
Lenin summed up the problem
simply by saying: 1.-THE bourgeois
State can be replaced by the proIe-
tartan State only by a violent revo-
luton"
This is the road to the proletarian
dictatorship, to Soviet power.
The Communist international,
founded by Lenin and now led by
Stain, treads the road Of Marxism.
The Communist International in
preparing the proletariat for the
final armed struggle against the
capitalist State mercilessly fights
against all attempts at "Blanquism"
or putschism, that is, premature
armed uprisings that have no mass
basis. But at the same time the
Communist International, carrying
forward the revolutionary teachings
of Marx and Engels, never loses
sight of the final goal, the final in
evitable battle.
In Austria, the elements were
ripe for the seizure of power. They
were ripe before in 1919, when the
majority of the population and the
army we're ready to strike out for
a Socialist Austria if the leader
ship of a Communist Party had
been present. But the Socialist
leaders of Austria, like the So
cialist leaders of Germany, Italy,
England, etc. betrayed the pro-
letarian revolution. They betray
it because they do not believe in
the possibility of the proletariat
ever striking its chains off Its back.
They believe in the alI-powerfuI
strength of the bOurgeoisie. They
talk about Socialism, but they do
not believe in its possibility, and
they take care that the working
class shall be submissive as long
as possible to the bourgeoisie.
The Communist Parties alone pre-
pare the masses for the revolution
airy way out of the crisis, for the
seizure of power, for the establish
ment Of Soviet Power Of the prole-
tariat This is the only road that
can lead to the smashing of the
capitalist rule. All others are traps
and decisions that play into the
hands of the exploiters.