New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-07-30
PROBLEMS FACING
STRICKEN WORLD
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction In
Europe Follow the Great
World War?
s0LsHEWsT SEEDS OF POISON
Avewed object Of the Leaders Of the
Movement 10 to Stir UP Hatred
Of Law and Order Every
where.
Article XVIII.
FRANK %coMERFoRD.

BY FRANK coMERFoRo.
"The program of the communist
party (bolsheviks) is the program not
only Of the liberation Of the proletar-
lat Of one country. 1t is the program
Of the liberation Of the proletariat Of
all countries; It Is the program OF
international revolution. The over
throw Of im%perialist governments by
means Of armed revolt is the road to
the international dictatorship Of the
working class" In these words, Blu
charm. accredited and recognized boil
shevik propagandist. set forth the OBJ
ject Of the communists at Moscow In
1918.
Lenine, In the same year.. In Petro-
grad. declared that 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
c~ontented Of the world to rise in rev.
olution against tbaa governments. All
existing governments were vile, lenine
said, and they must be overthrow.
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
com to the light Of freedom and
justice except through blood. Lee
nine was for the great 'red baptism
II alone could cleanse the world and
make It a 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 lands" He bla-
| zoned the wal cry on the coat of arms
OF the bolshevik government in these
words: "Workers OF the World,
Unite" ,t-F
The bolshevik government has been
in~slstent and persistent in its prop
uganda, collecting and pointing out the
causes for discomfort In other lands,
1t has been n propaganda of hate. II
has scattered. broadcast. poison seeds
in the soil OF unrest. II has played
to class feeling. 1t has appealed to
the lowest and worst In men. 1t has
written and spoken Of the Great War
as the enterprise of capital. 1t has
charged up the terrible shedding OF
blood to capitalistic Imperialism. II
has listed the ill-effects OF the war and
charged them not to the war, but to
Capitalism. 1t has. pointed to the
poverty and the disqualification Of the
world. directly caused by. the war
and attributed all of these unhappy
results OF n four year struggle with
au~tocracy, not to the war but to. the
system of so-called Bourgeois Govern
ment." II has multiplied. magni6ed
and Intensified unrest. 1t hopes tC
bring about a great world foment
which will destroy all government
except the government Of the proleta'
rIat, the soviet plan. Its propaganda
has caused many OF the people of the
world to think that they are still fight
ing the regimes OF the cars. and that
reactionary governments everywhere
are conspiring to bring about theil
downfall and re-establish the reign
and rule OF despots in Russia. 1t does
n o make conspicuous the fact that the
car is dead and that his regime has
passed forever.
Ienine Without liberation.
/ Lenine decries anyone, and every
one who does not accept his gospel OF
world revolution. He is 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. is not willing to carry out
this demand. let him be 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 milltarism and demand disarm'
ament Lenine has written:
"what will the proletariat women do
to prevent this7 Merely denounce al
wars and militarism7 Merely demand
disarmament. Never shall the women
Of an oppressed and revolutionary
class resign themselves TO so despic'
able a role. On the contrary. they
will say &c 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 fight your brothers. as is
the practice In this war Of plumber
but In order TO fight the bourgeois OF
your "own" country: In order to put
an end TO misery and wars. not by
means Of kind wishes" but by over-
throwing and disarming the bour
geoisie.'"
The third international" was called
together to organize the movement
against the peace Of the world. II
met at Moscow from March 2 to March
q. 1919; II adopted a manifesto
which was signed by. Lenine and
Troxky- the leading spirits of the con.
gress Of the communist International