The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-17

ruthless enough against its enemies. The lackeys
and prostitute bourgeois historians stiA shiyer in
fright at what they call the terrorism of the Paris
Commune But the trouble that the Paris pro-
letariat was not hard enough, not decisive enough
against its capitalist enemies who repaid them for
their misguided generosity with one Of the blood
lest, most savage orgies of slaughter in modern
annals
IT WAS LENIN who applied these lessons and
avoided these mistakes in the october Revolu-
ton and steered the Russian proletariat straight
and true to its revolutionary goal-the new type Of
State which had been envsaged already in the Paris
Commune and saw the light in the Russian Revo-
luton of 1905, the Soviet State Of the proetarian
dictatorship!
It was the Bolsheviks, with Lenn at their head,
who applied and profited from the lessons which
Marx and Enges drew from the Paris Commune
in the following paragraph, which should be, as
Lenn said, on the walls Of every workers home:
"The Commune was compelled to recognize
from the outset that the working class, once come
to power, could not carry with the old State
machinery; that in order not to lose again its
newIy-won supremacy, this working class must
abolish all the old repressive machinery previously
used against it
"Of late the SociaI-D Democratic philistine has
once more been filed with wholesome terror at
the words: Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Well
and good gentlemen do you want to know what
the dictatorship of the prOletariat looks like? Look
at the Paris Commune. That was the dictatorship
of the prOletariat"
And today we say, do you want to know what
the dictatorship of the proletariat looks like? Look
at the Soviet Union that is the dictatorship of the
proletariat.
1t was because the Russian proletariat pos
sessed what the Paris proletariat in 1871 and the
heroic Austrian proetariat recently also lacked,
BOLSHEVIK COMMUNIST PARTY GUIDING
THE REVOLUTION TOWARD SOVIET POWER
that they achieved revolutionary triumph in Oc-
tober, 1917. 1t because of this that they were
able to destroy the capitalist State power set up
the dictatorship of the proletariat in its place and
are now, under the Bolshevik leadership of Stain
building Socialism and laying the basis for class
less society.
1T WAS the Paris Commune that struck the first
! open blow for the establishment of new form
of democracy, proletarian democracy, what Lenin
has called "the highest form of democracy the world
has ever known" And it was the Soviet workers,
under the leadership Of the Bolsheviks, who trum-
phantly completed in the october Revolution what
the Paris Commune set out to do-and established
proletarian democracy democracy for the toiling
masses, the vast majority of the population, by
smashing the dictatorship of the capitalist exploit
ers and setting up a Soviet Government
The leadership of a Bolshevk, Communist Party,
steering the mass movement toward Soviet Power
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dispensable precondition for the successful smash
ing of the monster of Fascistcapitalist oppression.
The fight for power, for the smashing of the
capitalist State rule is now on the order of the
day Soviet power! This is the slogan raised aloft
by the 18th Plenum of the Executive Committee Of
the Communist International! The world stands at
the brink of tremendous proletarian revolutionary
struggles The Austrian proletariat has filled the
world proletariat with pride and admiration with
its heroic march onto the road Of open class war.
The Austrian February is the prelude to the Aus
TRAN October Bolshevik Revolution. The Austrian
proletariat has given heroic proof that the world
proletariat is getting ready to strike out for
the revolutionary seizure Of power.
The terrible ravages of the capitalist crisis
brings the question Of the revolutionary road out
Of the crisis into the day to day struggles Of the
working class Which way out of this terrible
misery? The example of the Soviet Union, whose
workers fully took the road OF revolution
viks led by Lenin, must be our guide and example
World capitalism, racked with parasitism, crisis
and disintegration unleashes its Fascist blood
hounds against the proetariat. But the world pro-
etaria steeled by the historic example of the Soviet
Union, under the leadership of the Communist In
ternational led by Stain, prepares for the final class
battles, for the revolutionary seizure of Soviet
Powerl Already the Austrian workers have Spoken
in the language of Bolshevism. Soon the world pro.
letariat will follow in it's footsteps.
We can best celebrate the immortal struggles
Of the Communards by preparing to complete thu
path upon which they started, by preparing for thu
Communist road to power, by placing ourselves a
the head of the proletarian army that now dali!
gets ready to smash the chains Of its wage slavery