The goal
in sight . a

by BRUCE MICKLEBURGH

years, millions of work:

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i month as they have done in growing numbers every January for the past 24

Viadimir Hyich Lenin—born A

pression; died January 21,

during workers’ state in hi
out of the ruins left by capitalism. This is t

the pattern of whose life-work
is woven into the cataclysmic
social changes of the mid-
twentieth century, bringing the
working people everywhere with-
in sight of their age-old goal
of freedom and security, with
exploitation of man by man end-
ed forever,

This January also marks an-
other great historic anniversary.
One hundred years ago, in Jan-
uary, 1848, Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels, on instruction
of the Communist League, sent
to the printers the manuscript
of the Communist Manifesto.

Today the ideas of the Mani-
festo, ideas which were further
developed under new conditions
by Lenin, are realized in the
lives of men and women in the
Soviet Union, that whole vast
Society where mankind has
fearned to fashion consciously:
its destiny and to reach new
pinacles of civilization. There
the predictions of the Manifesto
are already realized—oppression,
exploitation, depressions and
warmongering no longer exist.

These ideas are being realized
too by 250,000,000 citizens of
Europe and Asia who have torn
up imperialism by the roots and

FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1948

Story began the

are building new. democracies,
by that half df humanity which
is rising to throw off the colon-
ial yoke, and in the struggle of
labor movements of the western
imperialist powers for decent
living standards, wider democ-
Tracy and peace.
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T are these ideas | which
have gripped countless mil-
lions to become the force which
already stands out as the world
alternative to imperialism?

The starting point of Marxism
came when the young Marx
jotted down in his notebook, “Up
tit now, philosophers have only
interpreted the world in differ-
ent ways—the point, however, is
to change it!” Here Marx con-
ceived of theory as a guide to
action. In plain words this
means that people can do some-
thing, in a planned and intelli-
gent way, about their problems.

Such a welding together of
thought and deed had never
been complete with previous
great thinkers. Theory was the
privilege of various exploiting
classes and their theory was
aimed at hiding and maintain-
ing exploitation.

ing people throughout the world will gather in tribute to
pril 22, 1870, into a Russia heavy with capitalist op-
1924, as the peoples he had led to found the first en-
gigantic task of creating a socialist society
he man, the genius of whose thinking and

But now capitalism had
brought into being a new class,
the working class, destined by
history to establish a classless
society and thus the champion
of all mankind. Marx forged his
revolutionary theory for a class
which had no interest in separ-
ating thought and action. He
was able to subject his ideas
to the acid test of the daily
struggle. :

It is exactly because of this
constant testing that Marxism
could become a science quite as
exact as chemistry or physics.
Communism as a movement
fuses science with the actions
of the common people. :

Marx showed that men’s ideas
and social forms grow out of
their material conditions. By
working according to the laws
of social development, which
Marx discovered, man can reach
that stage of true civilization
where he shapes his future in
freedom from those “blind, ele-
mental” external forces which
still, under capitalism, shape the
lives of each of us.

Marx’s theory of surplus value
laid bare the secret of capitalist
exploitation, His demonstration
of the class struggle as the driv-

ing force of human _. develop-
ment debunked those who would
“reconcile” labor with capital so
as to squeeze out more profits

_from human exploitation.

In the very burgeoning of im-
perialism Marx laid the theor-
etical foundations of the great

labor movements he predicted
would rise in every country.
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By the turn of the century
when Lenin came upon the
Scene, capitalism was already
rotten ripe. A small number of
banker -industrialists controlled
the economic and political life
of each of the leading capitalist
countries. Competition had turn-
ed into monopoly.

This Lenin termed the imper-
ialist stage of capitalism. With
the big powers seeking to re-
divide among themselves the
“backward” areas of the earth
and monopoly intensifying the
misery of the people at home,
the history of imperialism has
been one of incessant wars, rev-
olutions, catastropic depressions
and bestial fascist attempts to
stifle the yearnings and striv-
ings of the people for peace and
security. -

Socialism became the only way
out. But imperialism had used
a portion of its super-profits to
bribe and corrupt the Social-
Democratic leaders of the labor
movement. To find socialism
the workers needed a party of
a new type. Lenin forged such
a party in Russia in merciless
struggle against opportunism.

Lenin’s Marxism was living,
creative, based on _ conditions

as they developed around him.

He did not fear to project the
new idea of using the contra-

dictions of imperialism to es-|

tablish Socialism in one country
through the alliance of workers
and peasants. Without this fear-

less perspective, and the party .

which with incredible heroism

_ and determination fused the per-

spective with the daily strug-
gles: of Russia’s millions,
cialism could not have existed
on the earth today as the victor
over Nazi fascism and the de-
fender of world peace.

The people’ of the Soviet
Union and now the people of
the new democracies, have found
the way out—the way pointed by

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Marx-Leninism and the Commun-
ist Party of each country at
each stage of the struggle.

{‘S thousands of Canadians

gather in tribute to Marx
and Lenin they will examine the
road ahead for Canada in the
light of the teachings of these
giants of human thought.

Celebration of this Lenin an-
niversary has an added signifi-
cance. The whole panopoly of
Canadian reaction is being built,
Hitler-style, on the nation-
corroding “foreign agent’ myth.
Newspapers and radio daily
shriek to the people that com-
munists are foreign agents. This
establishes the basis for the
now-inevitable analysis of each
of Canada’s grave problems
which offers the profound ex-
planation that it is the result,
not of big business policies, but
of communist “trouble-making.”

Tribute to Marx and Lenin
_affirms the right and need of
all Canadians to enrich our
country by the contributions of
these advanced scientists of so-~
cial construction and human hap-
piness. It affirms that Canadians
must learn from all that is great
and good in the world.

The finding of ways to elim-
inate depressions, fear, hatred,
insecurity and slaughter jis the
path of true ~ Catiadianism
against the betrayers of our
country to Wall Street. ‘This
also is the meaning of the
Lenin anniversary.

The hundredth nniversary of
Marxism! The 24th anniversary
of Lenin’s death! The atomic
incendiarists see ag clearly as
the democrats that the goal is
in sight for the toilers. That is .
the reason for their desperately
dangerous red-baiting and re-
pression at home and abroad.
They would reverse the tide of
history even if it should mean
the destruction of civilization. .

But, as Lenin -himself said,
the locomotive of history goes
forward. The gigantic and grow-.
ing social achievements of 20,-.
000,000 Communists in today’s
world are living proof that the
science of Marxism-Leninism
has become the people’s sécret
weapon which Wall Street can
never understand, which it will
combat with all the power at
its command, but against which |
it cannot for long prevail,

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