DA BI OVAJ PIJANI SVIJET IZNOVA STAO NA SVOJE EVOLUCIJSKE NOGE, I ZDRAVI RAZUM, POTREBNO MU JE MNOGO, I VEOMA MALO DA APSORBIRA TEK JEDAN SLJEDEĆI MISAONI ISCRP PODNASLOVA PROLETERSKOG SOCIJALIZMA, SOCIJALISTIČKE RADNIČKE PARTIJE AMERIKE.

PROLETARIAN SOCIALISM "It is not at all difficult to highlight, as Time does, the respective failures of social democracy, third worldism of Stalinism. But this is no way discredits proleterian socialism (nor does it make the era of capitalist decline more bearable). The bastardized Marxism-Leninism of the CP states is the "socialism" of new bureaucratic rulling classes. Third world is the "socialism" of military tyrants or nationalist governments. Social democracy is the "socialism" of the reformist bourgeosie and labor liuttenants who dominate the workers' movements in the West. The failure of any these "socialist"movemensts to institute the classless, stateless society and realize the goals of socialism merely confirm Marx's contention that only the proleteriat itself could accompLish such atask. There is no social force or "leadership" that can supstitue for the self-organization of the mass of workers. This promise was ačso the basis of mayor contributions to socialist theory made by the American socialist Daniel De Leon (1852- 1914). de Leon was one of the first to build on the original conceptions pf Marx and Engels, and on the ever-expanding level of ondustrialization evident in the US.at the turn pf the century, to project a program of revoluionary transformation consistet whith the socialist goal. De Leon ideas wiiich come to be asummed up in he socialist industrial union pogram, called for the počotical and ecomomic organization of the working class to accomplish a specific set of revolutionary objectives. Politically, he held that the proletariat needed a classwide political party to educate and gather revolutionary forces and mount an attack on rhe centralized state power of the ruling class. Economically, De Leon projected a network of classwide industrial unions which would unite all members of the working class into a powerful body capable of mobilizing their decisive social power at the point of production. These socialist industrial unions were to be organized alog the lines of the modern economy they would eventually seek to control. Unlike craft unions, they would unitr all workers in each industry and then integrate all the industries at the local, regional and national levels. The principes od workers democracy - i.e., immediate recall of all representatives, abpčotopn of bueaucratic privileges, etc. - would ensure that these bodies remained in the hands of the rank and file. De Leon placed these revolutionary socialist unions at the heart of his program for overthrowing capitalism. The SIUs would be the fundamental force for mobilizing the productive power od the workers in the basic social and economic power needed to expropriate the capitalist class. They would also constitute the ultimate source of all authority in the revolutionary struggle. At the same time, the SUIs were also intended to serve as the building blocks of future socialist society. As a united network od producers equipped to manage production cooperatively and democratically, De Leon maintained, the SIUs were alone suited for the primary tasks of socialist government. They were the foundation on which a classless, statelles socialist society could be brought into existence. By struggling to build the SIU structure, the revolutionary movement could bind the workers into a classconscious force. By struggling to make the SIUs the foundation of future society, the workers could erect a system that would allow them to retain direct, democratic control od the vital process of social production. De Leon summed up his conception with the slogan: "Industrial unionism is the socialist republic in the making; and the goal once reached, the industrial union is the socialist republic in operation." Today this program remains the one most consistent with the aims and objectives of the founders of modern socialism. And as surely as each day of capitalist decline moves the working class toward another upsurge in revolutionary struggle, so too does each experience with a spurious variety of socialism contribute to a rebirth of the socialist movement on the basis of its original principe of self-emancipation.