New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-30
Leni,ne by Own
Word Brands
Self a Despot


Russia As bOurScOIsIc"
"Bolshevism elf-Revealed study
BY William English Walling. OF the Len
inc-Trotzky orgy in Russia, was issued
Yesterday by the League for National
Unity, / Madison Avenue Ny. Wallinc
takes his material almost wholly from
the propaganda industriously spread IN
This and other western countries by
the 8olshevik themselves, and, com
pairing 1t with the personal pronounce
ments os the Soviet dictator, demon
strstes that Russia. through tic pres
ent revolution. mas only exchanged
hesrtiess despotism Of 10000 land
lords for TIC mardero0s rule OF a00000
aid pedestrians who are holding
themselves N power now chiefly by The
employment Of the fo-mer GAYS best
argument. che machine gun.
Quoting boastfully avowed "prin-
ciples" of ienine himself ard the COM
ncnts of Maxim Gorky, the best known
writer Of the Bolsheviki, as we'll as the
admitted statements of lesser support
ors OF the proletarian regime in Petro-
grad and Moscow. MIR waiiing shows
that the Bolshcvki. contrary 70 tner
spologists in America. are not pacfists
but are planning TO use fire and sword
wherever and whenever there Is
practical certainty mat they can win.
Abhor Word Democracy"
lie also shows that they not only alb
nor the word democracy" but have re-
pudlated that cardinal MARKHAM prn-
clple, characterization" and, further
more, that, in the words Of Gorky Len
inc, now embracing "communalism,"
IS using the vast illiterate masses Of
Russia as a metallurgist uses minerals
making an atrocious and tragic expert
ment which is costing daily thousands
and thousands of lives
In America writes Mr.. Walling
the Bolsheviki are represented as
being democrats; IN Russia, Lenine
and his followers lose no occasion to
repudiate democracy both IN word and
IN deed In America the Russian Boil
sheviki are represented as having given
land TO a landless peasantry; in Russia
the Bolsheaviki attribute nearly all Of
their troubles to the fact that there has
been very little land not already in
"In America the BolSheviki are rep
resented as favoring individual liberty;
in Russia the Bolsheviki absolutely re-
pudlate such as being "a bourgeois doc
trinc and practice.
Lenine Abandoned Socialism
Taking up the announcements OF
Lenine, Mr.. Walling, quoting from the
writing of the dictator f the Soviets
shows that a far back as May, 1917
democracy and socialism had been
abandoned by Lenine and mis- followers
Tor Communism.
In America he says. "Lenine is
represented as being 100 per cent
Socialist; in Russia Lenine presents
himself as being 100 per cent anti
Socialist; that is. Communist OPP
posed to the Socialist International
in May, 1917, the first, or non
Bolshevik, revolution was already sufi-
GENTLY developed TO enable Lenine to
define the application of his doctrines
to the political situation in which Rus
sla found itself. From the New Inter
qational' April, 1919, an American
holsheviH publication, we quote the
following paragraph of long article
ey Lenine:
1.-THE word democracy cannot be
scientifically applied to the Communist
party. Since March, 1917. the word
democracy is simply shackle fastened
upon the revolutionary nation and pre-
Nenting it from establishing boldly,
freely and regardless of all obstacles a
new form of power the council Of
Workmen's. Soldiers and Peasants
Deputies, harbinger of the abolition Of
- every form Of authority
Defends Dictatorship
- Shortly after the Bolshevik came
INTO power" Mr. Walling adds, "Lenine
defined the new dictatorship Of the
oroletarlat as follows:
Just as 10000 lordlv land owners
ander Czarism dominated the 10000
400 Russian peasants, so 100000 men,
oers OF the Bolshevik party are impos-
ing their proletarian will upon the
mass, but this time in the interest of
the latter
"How much in the interest of the
latter Mr.. Walling lets Maxim Gorky
say. alter declaring that the Soviet
dictator is the Kaiser, the Pope and
the hari Marx OF the Bolshevil move
inent.
"Gorky," MIR. Mailing explains, Us
undoubtedly the greatest literary
figure among the Bolsheviki. Ii is true
that that his paper was forbidden for a
ooag period, ana that he was for a
time practically out OF that movement
I.ut he has reentered II recently and
has been given GE important position
by the Bolsheviki The, not only &C
cept him as ore their leaders, but
are boasting about his return 70 the
sold"
Gorky an Intellectual
Gorky, while sharing large part o.
the Bolshevik theories. describes him
self as an 'intellectual Bolshevik. "
AND believes "intelectual Bolshevsm
10 be Of great Vafue to The aspiring
Russian soul
o. Lenine Mr. Walling quotes this
intellectual Bolshevk as writing:
He is very intelligent and possesses
al the Qualities of chief including
Tho ENgET n RH nz