The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-16

LENINE AND DEMOCRACY

organization of workrnen who could make dis tinction between law-givng and the executive powers All bourgeois democratic republics these days, them also the German, which the treacherous Socialists falsely assert to be prolearan retain this bourgeois State apparatus This again clear and distinct proof that the call for the de- supreme democracy is nothing but defence of bOurgeoise and eXtortionistS privi- leges.
 7-"Idberty hold meetings" may be cited as an example of what is demanded by pure democ- racy." Every responsible workman who has broken away from his class understands at once that it would be quite give the extortioners lib erty to hold meetings in this situation, they are resisting attempts to overthrow them, and defending their privileges. Neither in England n 1649. yet France 17s3 bourgeoisie in its revolutionary phase grant liberty to hold meet ings to the monerchists and aristocracy when the latter called foreign troops into the country and met 10 organlze an attempt With restoration But when the bourgeoise, having long since become .actionary, now demand of the proletariat guaran in advance. they, extortioners. be free to hold meetings irrespective of what resistance the capitalists may offer against expropration the workman simply laugh at such hypocrisy the part of the bourgeoisie
 S-"Libery of is al catch word of pure democracy" But the 'workmen know, and Socialists throughout every country have often confirmed it, that liberty is a deception long the best printing offices and the largest stocks of remain in the hands of the capital ists. and long capital retains power press, power over the power which, throughout the world is always more pronounced wherever democracy and the republican regime highly developed, for instance, in America Real liberty and equality must be the order to be established by Communists, r1u be possibility of profiting at anothers expense, possibility directly indirectly giving into the power of money-makers. and where nothing will prevent the workmen group workmen) from owning and realizing equal rights using the printing offices of belonging to the community.
 9-The history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries showed already before the what is meaning renowned pure racy" under capitalism The Marxists have always maintained that the developed, and 'purer'' democracy is. the sharper and unendurable comes fight between the classes becomes the of capital and the dic tatorship of the bourgeoisie The Dreyfus affair republican France, the sanguinary attacks strk- by soldiers. supplied with for the purpose capitalists that took place in the free n democratic republic of America, these, and similar reveal the truth which bourgeoisie tries in vain to conceal that in the democratic republics the terrorism and dic tatorship bourgeoisie reigns shows itself the power capital being a tremble
 1O-The inperia1istic of 1914-1918 has, survivors among workrnen character of bourgeois democracy as bourgeois dictatorship in of the free To enrich the German and English groups of millionaires dozens of millions of been murdered, and bourgeois military dicta- is still kept in the Entente countries after defeat of Germany. The war, than anything else, has served to the of the working has stripped the bourgeois democracy vast abyss of speculation of gain. Tho bourgeoisie carried the war in the of lib- erty equality, iu that military raked in unheard-of riches. No effort part of the Bern International will be abI conceal from the masses the thievipg char acter, definitely unmasked, of bourgeois liberty, bourgeois equality and bourgeois democracy.