Socialism & Democracy
1984Roland Sheppard 1984-10Read it in the scan (PDF at ETOL), page 7 →
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"The fight for workers' democracy is inseparable from the fight for socialism, We are devoting this special Forum section to these fundamental concepts. Like and the condition for its victory. Workers' democracy is the only road to socialism, Cannon, our purpose is to clear up the widespread confusion and misunderstanding here in the United States and everywhere else, all the way from Moscow to Los about socialism and democracy. To this end, we are including a series of articles on the struggle for socialist democracy in Eastern Europe. We are also publishing With these words, James P. Cannon, founder of the Trotskyist movement and of the Socialist Workers Party, concluded a speech to the SWP West Coast Vacation School on Sept. 1, 1957. In his speech Cannon sought to clarify the notions of socialism and democracy for U.S. workers. He sought to restore the fundamental importance of workers' democracy in the struggle for socialism; particularly after these two concepts had been so perverted under the crippling influence of Stalin- This task requires the active participation of the majority What could be more democratic than that?-THE EDITORS Angeles and from here to Budapest. ism. excerpts from Cannon's 1957 speech.
With this Forum we seek to restore the full meaning Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto that the ing class is the task of the workers themselves. of the famous statement by "emancipation of the workof the class.