The Washington times., 1919-11-23
TO-DAY
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Lenine will pass, a strange, power
full, single-minded man. Others
will follow, lacking his power.
Some one man will see the chance
and seize it. The peasants will
give up their land, go back to the
old conditions, imitation grand
dukes will flourish, the great Incl
dent will be over FOR THE MO-
MENT.
It will come back in due time, in
another form, with the Russians
reading and writing. Then Lenine
will be to Russia what Garabaldi,
Cavour and Mazzini are to Italy.
For Russia can never go all the
way back. . 80.
Lenine is neither ignorant nor
blindly Utopian, as are the millions.
that follow him-seven times as
many as were concerned in the
French : revolution. He knows
something about his own limita-
tions, a great deal about the limita-
tions Of others. .~
Telephoning New, Year greetings
+ to friend he said: May we COM
NIT fewer stupidities this year than
last
His motto is now Labor discip-
line," Work" he tells peasants
and mechanics. "Not words but
work will make your revolution
successful" 1t is said that he has
actually increased the value Of man
power in Russia
He has confidence in the people,
their courage, capacity for suffer-
ing and patie ICE. But he knows
their individual weaknesses, knows
that he is not leading demi-gods.
For every honest Bolshevik
there are thirty-nine scoundrels
and sixty fools" is one Of his say
ings. But he knows how to ter
rorize the scoundrels and inspire
the fools.
He knows that he, probably, will
fail and his plan of government
also. But he believes that his
revolution means eventually an end
of the old system, as Napoleon's
rise meant the end of real kings.
THE capitalist state, of which
England is an example, is dying
out. The old order Is doomed.
The economic conditions arising
out OF the war are driving toward
the new order"
They are driving in that dfrec-
ton if the people are ready and
fit for less selfish system, not
otherwise. No war could estab-
lish anything but African savagery
among the inhabitants Of the Ga
boon country-first change your
savages. ~
Lenine has given the land to.
the peasants, thus tied them to
his system and to his star. "No
more Lenine," to them, means
I'VE lose, our land" That was
diplomacy.
He gives the factories to the
workers as rapidly as he dares.
But he begs trained men to come
from other countries to manage
business and industry at their own
price. he offers century long con-
cessions to American capitalists
If they build railroads and open
mines.
And he is not afraid to put plain
questions to workers that think
they need no industrial leaders.
TO workers asking him to sign
blank decreeing the Nationalist
tlon of their factory, he says:
II can do that easily enough.
but, frst, do you know where to
get your raw materials?
DO you understand the keep
ing OF accounts? Have you work
ed out method for keeping up
production?
And, finally, comrades, may /
ask whether you have found a
market in which to sell your prod
ucts?"
The comrades admit that they
had not thought of the minor de-
tails mentioned by Lenine and are
told to wait while before getting
rid of the boss that does under.
stand those details.
1t would seem, Just now, that
the red revolution is Lenine-
about all of it.
In all the book, of which your
review ends here, there is but one
reference to Trotsky. 1t shows
him ,in a leather coat, military
breeches and eaters, with a fur
hat with the sign of the red army
IN front, looking very we'll"
For a powerfully anti-militaris-
tic gentleman, Trotsky on war
horse in parades with breeches and
CATERS seems to be doing VERY.
well. He illustrates the fact that
great upheayals often subside be-
cause the upheavers learn to like
the poison that at first disguised
them