The Arvada enterprise., 1920-07-29
PROBLEMS FACING
STRICKEN WORLD
shall Chaos or Reconstruction IN
Europe Follow the Great
World War;
soLsnEvIsT SEEDS OF POISON
AvsWsd OBJECT q the Leaders q the
Movement 10 TO Stir Up Hatred
o. Law and Order Every.
WHERE,
Article XVIII.
BY FRANK coMERFoRo.


BY FRANK coMERFoRo.
"The program Of the communist
party {bolsheviks) Is the program not
snly Of the liberation Of the proletar-
at Of one country. 1t is the program
II the liberation Of the proletariat Of
Ill countries: 1t is the program Of
International revolution. The over
throw Of imperialist governments by
means Of armed revolt IL the road to
the international dictatorship Of the
working class" In these words. Blu
charm. accredited and recognized boil
shevik propaganda, set forth the OBJ
ject Of the communists at Moscow In
1918.
Lenine, In the same year. In Petro-
grad, declared shat the chief task
which We set ouselves at the very
beginning Of the war was to turn the
imperialistic war into q civil war"
His aim was to force upon Russia
Communism, and to summon the dis
contented of the world to rise In rev.
olution against their governments. All
existing governments were vile. lenine
said, and they must be overthrown.
Political action. parliamentary meth.
DDS, peaceful voting, were worse than
useless. They were inventions Of the
devil, Capitalism. Force must be
used; the workers must arm them
selves and fight; the world could not
come to the light Of freedom and
Justice except through blood. Le-
nine was for the great "red baptism"
1t alone could cleanse the world and
make 1t q decent place In which to
live. He wrote the aim and object
Of bolshevism into the soviet consti-
tuition when he defined the funda-
mental problem as being the "victory
Of socialism in all land.." He bla.
xoned the war cry on the coat Of arms
Of the bolshevik government In these
words: "Workers Of the World.
Unite"
The bolshevik government has been
insistent and persistent In its prop
uganda, collecting and pointing out the
causes for discomfort In other lands.
It has been q propaganda Of hate. 1t
has scattered. broadcast. poison seeds
in the soil Of unrest. It has played
to class feeling. II has appealed to
the lowest and worst In men. II has
written and spoken Of the ''Great War"
- the enterprise Of capital. It has
charged up the terrible shedding of
blood to capitalistic imperialism. II
has listed the ill-eRects Of the war and
charged them not to the war. but to
Capitalism. Il has pointed to the
poverty and the disqualification Of the
world. directly caused BY the war.
and attributed all Of these unhappy
results Of q four year struggle with
autocracy. not to the war but to the
system Of so-called bourgeois Govern.
ment." 1t has multiplied. magni1ed
and intensified unrest. It hopes to
bring about 4 great world foment
which will destroy oil government
except the government Of the proleta-
riat, the soviet plan. Its propa Eanda
has caused many Of the people Of the
world to think that they are still hght.
ing the regimes Of the csars. and that
rsactionary governments everywhere
are conspirins to bring about their
downfall and re-establish the reign
and rule Of despots In Russia. II does
not make conspicuous the fact that the
car 10 dead and that his regime has
passed forever.
lsnins Withsvt liberation.
Lenine decries anyone and EVEN
one who does not accept his gospel Of
world revelation. He 10 particularly
bitter towards socialists who are op-
posed to his program. Writing Of
''the military program Of the proletar.
lat revolution" he concludes his ar
ticle In the November "Class Struggle"
for 1919: "Whoever. In view Of this
last war. II not willing to carry out
this demand. let him he good enough
to refrain from uttering large words
about the international revolutionary
democracy, about the social revolution
and about the war against wars"
OF those who have dared to de-
nounce militarism and demand disarm-
ament Lenine has written:
"what will the proletariat women do
TO prevent thisi Merely denounce oil
wars and miiitarIsm1 Merely demand
disarmament3 Never shall the women
Of an oppressed and revolutionary
class resign themselves 10 no despIc.
able . role. On the contrary. they
will say to their sons: You will soon
be grown up. You will have a gun.
Take II and learn how to use it-not
In order to hght your brothers. a. IA
the practice In this war Of plumber,
but In order 10 fight the bourgeois Of
your Gown" country: In order to put
On end TO misery and wars. not by
means Of "kind Wishes" but by over.
throwing and 1issrming the bour.
geoisie.'"
The third international" was called
together to organize tho movement
against the peace Of the world. II