of the of the shell of the old.
conscious of Labor.
THE COMMUNIST PAGE TWENTY THREE So much for the being the kin it.
civilization. It says the civilized method Now as to the being the kin than their funky, Peterson, who wants to Could any bourgeois agent do better of settling disputes (meaning the class struggle) is by argument, not fist fights.
substitute the destruction of the bourgeois Hence the addresses itself to the From the Preamble: By state machinery, instead of by mass action workers and urges that they meet the waminating in armed insurrection and civil capitalist class at the ballot box and settle structure of the new society within the bourgeois Peterson. as civilization has provided. The ofWeekly People, November 13, 1920: To attain Socialism, according to Peter ficialdom of the must have for In this organization. the new, class son and his co renegades of the gotten that in the Communist Manifesto, unionism, industrial unions, be to declare for it at the hustings! Fine!
all what the workers will have to do wiii which is published by them, there is this: harmonious with the lines drawn by mod The history of all hitherto existing ern industry concretely the Workers In The imperialistic counter revolutionary society is the history of class struggles.
bandits ought not to be suppresed by the ternational Industrial Union in this ordictatorship of the proletariat in the form The modern bourgeois society that has ganization we see a very concrete deveof a Soviet Government, thus whisper the sprouted from the ruins of feudal society, lopment and formation already under bourgeoisie. And their lieutenants, the has not done away with class antagonisms.
capitalism of the American Soviets, the It has but established new classes, new Petersons, say: But if the counter revoluCouncils of Labor in the future Republic tion should raise its head, the same work struggle in place of the old ones.
conditions of oppression, new forms of ing class, industrially organized, will crush Where, Mr. serious minded revolution it and more effectively than any so called Society as a whole is more and more ist is the difference between the two dictatorship of the proletariat could do splitting up into two great hostile camps, above quotations? There is none. The it.
into two great classes directly facing each is in agreement with the Continuing, Peterson other: Bourgeois and Prolteariat.
states: Marx in its industrial conception. The once said that force is the midwife of of the development of the proletariat, we In depicting the most general phases is in agreement with the on the revolution. Exectly. But. Time and political field; the seeks to attain circumstances will determine what kind traced the more or less veiled civil war, its end by training the workers to use the ballot box to vote out the capitalists and of a midwife you want. Here in America raging within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks out into we know (get that, we know) that Industmiddle classes by orderly and constitution rial Unionism is the only midwife conopen revolution, and where the violent al means, while the believes in ceivable. How Peterson acquired the foundation for the sway of the proletaoverthrow of the bourgeoisie, lays the the same way but expresses it in different art of bourgeois servitude can be observed words, that is, it addresses itself to the by his first quoting Marx, then agreeing riat. The Communists disdain to conceal workers and urges that they meet the with him by saying exactly and finally thei views and aims. They openly declare capitalist class at the ballot box and settle by disagreeing with him by adding a but that their ends can be attained only by the question as civilization has provided.
to it. What Marx said is this: That And since there is no difference between the forcible overthrow of all existing social force plays another role in history, a revothe the and the lutionary role; that force is the midwife conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletathen your own terminology is now quite of the old society that is pregnant with rians have no to lose but their chains.
in place: The in conjunction the new; that force is the instrument and They have a world to win.
with its kith and kin, the and the the means by which social movements acts a sort of poultice on the hack their way through and break up the Working men of all countries, unite!
The Communist Party of America, Seclabor movement, absorbing a good bit of dead and fossilized political forms. This tion of the Third International the living the impurities that are created in that passage by Marx is very specific and expression of Marxism the Communist movement. The existence of the clear, yet Peterson is substituting for it Party of America does not forget the with its Petersons, the with its Ber this indefinite term: Time and circumclass struggle, as the and gers, Hilquits, and Co. is proof to the stances will determine what kind of a do. Nor does the Communist Party of eflect that the Communist Party is not midwife you want as though Marx America substitute the class struggle for a poultice on the labor movement; that would have never definitely stated that a few bourgeois pacifistic phrases about it does not absorb the impurities created force is the midwife. Having abjured settling the question by civilized mein that movement.
Marx to such an extend, he concludes: thods, etc. as the does. The Listen to this repudiation of all in one Here in America we know (get that we Communist Party of America maintains. the general strike, mass action, armed know, again) that Industrial Unionism is that the class struggle is essentially a poliinsurrection and the dictatorship of the the only midwife conceivable.
tical struggle, that is, a struggle to conquer proletariat by Arnold Peterson in the In other words, here in America we the power of the state; destroy the bourWeekly People of January 1, 1921: But bourgeois lieutenants of the know geois state machinery by mass action culby physical force we do not understand what Marx said, that force is the midwife minating in armed insurrection and civil street riots, or general strike. nor do of the old society that is pregnant with war, and the establshment of the dictatorwe mean armed insurrection, nor any the new; that force is the instrument and ship of the proletariat in the form of a other such tomfoolery. By force we means by which social movements hack Soviet Government as the ONLY means understand the integral industrial union their way through and break up the dead of introducing the Communist Society.
revolutionary in scope and purpose. The most fitting name for the offcialand fossiled political forms get that, we dom of the and that of the union, ready to take and hoid, after the know it. and yet we deliberately substiworkers at the hustings have declared for tute Industrial Unionism as the only mid who are thrown into wholsome paroxysms by the expressions illegal activity, genSocialism. But if the counter revolution wife conceivable.
class, industrially organized, will crush it The has completely renounced eral strike, mass action and the dicshould raise its head, the same working Marxism since, in its issue of the Weekly tatorship of the proletariat. the most suitable name for their actions is: Seriousand more effectively than any so called People, Nov. 27, 1920, it stated the folMinded Counter Revolutionists. dictatorship of the proletariat could do lowing: The P. plants itself upon