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

CThe following extracts from the first
 part of article contributed by Lenine
 FoIkets Dagbad Politiken of May. They
 throws particularly clear light Boishe-
 sub,erfuges of the last phase" Ienine.s frank
 thesis, which accepted at the Communist
 WorId-Congress al expressing the
 attitude of the Communist International in the
 question of bourgeois democracy and proie-
 tarian dictatorship, should be carefully noted
 by all true Socialists and Democrats)
 1-The Growth of the revolutionary move ment among the proletariat of all countries has called forth strenuous efforts on the part of the "burgeois' and their agents employed in workers organizations to find ideal political arguments In defence of the dominion of the extortioners One argument in particular advocates the abolition of the dictatorship and the defence Of democracy The prevarication and hypocrisy of such an argument repeated in thousand ways by the capitalist press and at the Conference held at Bern February, l919 be obvious all who will not be traitors to the doctrines of Socialism.
 2-Above all, this argument acts on the ideas the supreme democracy the supreme dicta- torship without enduring what class is referred to- Such argument being outside, above the stand point and put forward the accepted stand O principles of Socialism, namely, the doctrine of "cass-war," which, though recognized verbally, is forgotten in action by the Socialists who none of inc canitalist countries does there exist a supreme democracy" but only g. bourgeois democ-
 3-History teaches us that no oppressed class has yet into power, could do so, with out going through period of dictatorship-that is the conquest of political power, forcible Suppression of the most desperate bourgeoise whose dominion is now championed by Socialists who are against supreme dictatorship and throw themselves heart and breach for the supreme democracy" have acquired power in civi through series of rebellons and civil wars, through violent suppression of the monarchy the feuda1 system, slave-owners and through attempts at reform
 4-By pointing out the class-character of bour- geos civilization, bourgeois democracy and bour geos parliamenarianism all Socialists have put in words the idea expressed with the greatest scien tific accuracy by Marx and Engels oppression of working by the bourgeois class and of the working by handful of capitalists Among those do upliff their voice against dictatorship and throw themselves in the breach of democracy a single revolutionary a single Afarxist solemny sworn to the work that recognized that fundamental truth of Socialism. that movement is started among the revolutionary proletariat with the ob- introducing of the .proletariat these Socialism represent the though bourgeoise desisted from opposition and willing to yield to workmens majority and as though democratic Republic possessed apparatus the oppression of labor by capi- ta1
 5-The Paris Commune extoled by everyone wished be considered a Socialist since they know it the and genuine sympathy of working classes has clearly proved the his arbitrariness and the limited worth of bour- which compared with the of things in the Middle Ages very free institutions but in hese of pro1etarian revolution, call for ab and fundamental changes a parliamentary institution.
 6-The importance of the Commune further the effort to destroy and overthrow the bourgeois machinery, that of officials. courts of justice military and police apparatus and place it by a self-administrative mass giving and