The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-01
Communists Only True
Heirs of Marx
And Engels

As the Communist Parties of the
world send their best representa-
tives to the Soviet Union to pre-
pare for the epoehsl Seventh World
Congress of the Communist Inter
national, the working class of the
world today celebrates the 10th an
niversary of the founding of the
First international, the glorious In
ternational Workingwomen's Asso-
citation, by Karl Marx and Freder-
lex Ergels.
1t was with the practical organ
izstion of this first world revolu-
tionary body, uniting the workers
of the world in international soi-
darity, that Marx and Engels
launched the historic revolutionary
struggle Of the proletariat for the
seizure of power.
The Significance of the First In
ternatiOnal
The working class must know its
history, NUT honor it's own revolu-
tionary past and must on the hard
road to revolutionary victory collect
everything that can render this vic
tory easier. The First Interna-
tional was not an honorable be-
ginning; 1t was q REVOLUTION
AIRY INSTRUMENT shaped by the
conditions Of the life of the work
ing class. At its head there stood
the greatest thinkers and organizers
Of the working class-Marx and
Engels. Their theory, further de-
veloped by Lenin, is today an eff
Gent weapon in the hands OF the
revolutionary vanguard of the in
ternational proletariat, the world
Communist Party. Their practice,
based on this theory, and embodied
in the First international, their
fight against the deviation to the
Plight" and to the Left" in the
ranks of the working class at the
time, and their principles of Or
ganization are not dead, are not
merely "the past; but contain the
GERM of what was realized in the
Third (Communist) International
proof of their correctness and
vitality.
Only those have q right to
celebrate this anniversary who not
only honored the theories and prac-
tice of the First International but
also transformed them into deeds.
Only those who always remained
true to the workers revolutionary
past and always fought against the
opportunism and treason of inter
national menshevism and even at
the very moment Of the deepest de-
basement Of the working class, dur
ing the imperialist war, raised the
red banner of international indig-
nation, of the revolution, that BAN
ner which had been deserted by the
social democrats, trodden into the
mire and exchanged for the differ
ent national colors, was the banner
with which they placed themselves
at the head of the working class
Only the Communists, only the
true heirs of Marx and Lenin, have
the right to celebrate the anniver-
sary of the foundation of the First
International Of the first interna-
tional of the revolutionary solidar-
ity! Only those have a right to
celebrate this anniversary who
saved even the good and useful in
the past, that was in the Second
International, from betrayal and
humiliation, and who had more
respect for that past than the Sec
ond International leaders! 1t IS
they who continue the theory and
practice of the First international;
they are the pioneers of the inter
national revolution. The Third In
ternational has fulfilled Engel's
hopes; 81 believe that the next In
ternational will be definitely Com
munist."
The first proclamation, the first