The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-06
World Front
II Years Ago
Life Answers
Prophets of Doom
BY HARRY CANNES
TOMORROW it will be II

the Communist Party (Bol-
sheviks) by armed force smashed
the rule of the capitalists and the
Gar and carried into life the slogan
"All Power to the Sovietsl"
Throughout the seventeen years,
every enemy Of the Soviet Union
predicted it's imminent collapse. At
first there was the combined forces
of the capitalists and the leaders
of the Second International. Kaut-
sky stormed against the Soviet
Union while the counter-revolu-
tionary war Of the imperialists
ragged I remember a speech by
Clarence Darrow in Chicago in 1919
filed with venom, hate and predic-
ton of imminent doom for the Sow
let Union. do you think those dogs,
that vile rabble can rule for another
80 dsys?" shrieked this liberal
lawyer.
Later prediction of doom came
from the Menshevik Trotzky. The
Five-Year Plan he declared meant
the Inauguration of an incurable
crisis in tn Soviet Union. Socialism
could not be constructed in the Sow
let Union, he howled. The first Five
Year Plan will lead to a catastrophe.
New forces we're beginning to serve
the counter revolution.
But today the mighty power Of
the proletariat, embracing 100000
900 people, one-sixth of the surface
of the globe, is sweeping on victori-
ously to the upbuilding Of Socialism.
Every one of the foul ISLANDERS of
Trotzky has been rammed down his
throat. Instead Of the crisis that he
predicted, construction in the Soviet
Union, under the leadership of the
Party of Lenin and Stain, sweeps
ahead so that not one single CAPT.
taliSt newspaper can any longer
deny the fact of the momentous
economic gains.
Trotzkys counter revolutionary,
Menshevik theories of the INSOFAR
able link between Soviet and CAPT.
talist economy is answered by the
facts Of the present world crisis.
While industry, agriculture sweep
ahead in the Soviet Union, while
unemployment is ended, while the
masses improve their conditions Of
life with speed never before known
in history, capitalist economy enters
deeper and deeper into it's general
crisis.
The misery of the masses in the
capitalist countries grows exactly
in the inverse ratio as the condi-
tions of the masses in the Soviet
Union improves. This is the chief
answer to the Trotzkyist counter
revolutionary theory of the INSOFAR
able link between Soviet and capi-
talist economy.
IN EVERY field of its life and work,
the Soviet Union has advanced
tremendously. The power of the
proletariat becomes stronger and
stronger, as the forces OF the enemy
are driven into the limbo of history
by Socialist construction and col
lective agriculture.
internationally, the Soviet Union
is becoming the decisive factor of
world history, striving for peace
when the whole impulse and direc-
ton of capitalism is to war, to mass
slaughter in an effort to save its
system.
The Soviet Union holds up before
all humanity the fact that only by
the proletarian revolution can the
toiling masses end capitalist rule.
Only by the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat can the enemy be defeated.
Only by the proletarian dictatorship,
by Soviet power, can planned econ
omy be instituted and humanity no
longer be subject to the blind forces
of capitalist economy.
THIS lesson is sinking deeply into
the whole labor movement, de-
spite every effort at resistance by
the Social-Democratic allies of the
capitalist state power. The left
ward sweep in the Socialist Parties
is inspired chiefly by the victory Of
the proletarian revolution in Rus
sia which, in this period of Fascist
advance, shows to the working class
of the world that only where the
proletarian revolution was led by
the Communist Party, is all POSSIBLE
ity of fascism smashed forever.
The very growth in the strength
and Importance of the Soviet Union,
its advance from victory to victory
in Socialist construction, while the
capitalist crisis stirs the masses into
action. spurs the imperialist rulers
to new, more gigantic war ventures
against the workers fatherland
True, their difficulties mount. The
Soviet Union is more capable of de-
Tending itself against any attack.
The sympathy of the working masses
throughout the world towards the
Soviet Union grows stronger. The
peace policies Of the Soviet Union
raises new obstacles. But the basic
contradiction between world capital
ism and the land of Socialism grows
stronger precisely as the well being
of the Soviet masses advance while
the workers in the capitalist lands
WITNESS the 1900 PEGS miners at
tempting suicide rather than con-
tinuing to live under starvation con-
ditions) are forced more and more
to coolie standards.
Seventeen years of the Soviet
Union will inspire the workers every
where to greater efforts in their
battles AGAINST capitalism. The cues