The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19
Proletariat Must B e
Organized for New
Social Order

Ietariat. as the only revolutionary
class, will have overthrown the ex-
ploiters, crushed them, freed the ex-
plotted from their state Of slavery,
| improved their living conditions i'm
mediately at the expense Of the ex-
propriated capitalists-oTlly after
this, and during the very course Of
/ the acute class struggle, will it be
possible to bring about the enlight-
eminent, education, and organization
of the broadcast masses Of toilers and
exploited under the influence and
leadership of the proletariat, to lib
crate them from their egoisnl, their
lack of solidarity, their vices and
weaknesses, which are being engen-
dered by private ownership, and TO
/ transform them into free workers
freely allied together.
TOR the success of the victory over
L capitalism it is necessary to have
a correct interrelation between the
leading Communist Party, the reyo-
lutionary class, the proletariat, and
the masses, lie, the whole body Of
toilers and exploited. Only the Com
munist Party, if it really is the van
guard of the revolutionary class, if
1t includes in its ranks all the best
representative Of this class, If it
consists of fully conscious, devoted
Communists, schooled and steeled
by the experience gained in the
stubborn revolutionary struggle, if
it has known how to link itself up
indissolubly with the entire life of
its class and through the latter with
all the exploited masses and how
to inspire this class and these mass
es with full confidence-only such
a Party is capable of leading the
proletariat in the most merciless,
final and decisive struggle against
all the forces Of capitalism.
On the other hand, only under
the leadership Of such a Party will
the proletariat be able to deply the
whole force Of its revolutionary on
slaught, nullify the inevitable
apathy and in part the resistance
OF the small minority of the labor
aristocracy corrupted by capitalism,
of the old leaders Of the trade
Unions, cooperatives, ETC.; only then
will it be able to deply all its force,
which-by reason Of the very eco
nomic structure Of capitalist society
is irnmeasurably greater than its
share in the population. Lastly,
only when actually liberated from
the bondage of the bourgeoisie and
of the bourgeois State apparatus,
only after acquiring the possibility
of freely (unhampered by the ex-
ploiters) organizing in their own
Soviets will the masses-i.e., all the
toilers and exploited-be able for
the first time in history to utilize
all the initiative and all the energy
of tens Of millions of people now
crushed by capitalism.
ONLY when the Soviets become
" the only State apparatus, will
real participation in administration
be achieved for all the exploited
masses, who even under the most
enlightened and freest bourgeois de-
mocracy were always, in SO cases
out of 100, actually excluded from
participation in adninistr ion.
Only in the Soviets do the exploited
masses begin really to 1earn-not
from books, but from their own
practical experience-how to under
take the work Of Socialist construc-
ton, the creation of a new social
discipline, of a free alliance of free
workers.
Lenin Theses on the Basic Tasks
/ of the Second Congress of the CHI