The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-07
IN the International Character of the October Revolution

place of refuge and school for the revolutionary
representatives Of the rising bourgeosie, so today
MOSCOW is the refuge and the school for the reyo-
lutonary representatives of the rising proetariat.
Hatred against the Jacobns did not save feudalism
from disaster. There cannot be the least doubt that
hatred against the Bolsheviki will not save capital
ism from its inevitable ruin.
The era of stability is past, and there has gone
with it the legend of the imperishableness of the
bourgeois social order.
The era of the catastrophe Of capitalism has
dawned.
4. The october Revolution is not only revo-
luton in the sphere of economic social and poll
teal relations, it is at the same time revolution
of the mind, a revolution of the theology Of the
working class The October Revolution was born
and strengthened under the banner of Marxism,
under the banner of the idea of the dictatorship
of the proletariat, under the banner of Leninism,
which is the Marzism of the epoch of imperialism
and of the proletarian revolution. 1t means there
fore, the victory of Marxism reformism, the
victory of Leninism over social democracy.
Formerly, before the victory of the dictatorship
of the proetariat, the social democrats were still
able to parade under the banner of Marxism, with
out openly denying the dictatorship Of the prole-
tariat, without however doing the least thing to
bring this idea to realization. For such an
attitude on the part Of social democracy did not
mean any threat to capitalism.
Today after the victory of the dictatorship Of
the proletariat, after everybody has with his
own eyes whittier Marxism leads and what its VIC
tory may mean, the social democracy can no longer
flirt with the idea of the dictatorship Of the prole
tariat without creating certain danger to capital
ism. After it had long broken with the spirit of
Marxism, 1t itself compelled to break also with
the banner of Marxism and has openly and in
dsputably proceeded against the offspring of Marx
ism, against the october Revolution, against the
first dictatorship of the proletariat in the world
Bankruptcy of Social Democracy
Between social democracy and Marxism there
lies today an abyss. From now on the only bearer
and stronghold of Marxism is Leninism, Commu-
nisn.
The October Revolution has separated social
democracy from Marxisrn and driven it into the
camp of the immediate defenders of capitalism
against the first proletarian dictatorship in the
world. When the social democratic leaders abuse
the Soviet regime" and laud parliamentary dem
ocracy" they thereby wish to say that they are
fighting and will fight for the re-establishment OF
capitalist conditions in the Soviet Union, for the
maintenance Of capitalist slavery in the civilized"
States. Present day social democracy is an deolo-
gical support of capitalism LSnin was indisputaby
right when he said that the present social demo-
cratic politicians will, in the civil of the pro-
letariat against the bourgeosie inevitably side with
the Versailaise against the Comnunards."
One cannot put an end to capitalism without
putting end to social democracy within the Ia
Dor movement Consequently, the era of the death
Of capitalism is at the same time the era Of the
death of social democracy in the labor movement.
The era Of the rule of the Second International
and of social democracy in the labor movement
is at an end.
There has commenced the era Of the rule of
Leninism and the rule Of the Third International