Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-31
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction In
Europe Follow the Great
World War?
soLsHEWST SEEDS OF POISON
AVowed Object of the Leaders Of the
Movement ls to Stir Up Hatred
OF Law and Order Every
where.
Article XVIII.
BY FRANK coMERFoRp.

lat Of one country 1t Is the program
OF the liberation Of the proletafiat Of
all countries; 1t is the program OF
International revolution. The over
throw Of imperialist 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 ouseIves at the very
beginning OF the war was to turn the
fmperialistic war into a civil war"
His aim was 70 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 mus be overthr6vn.
Political action. parliamentary meth
DDS. peaceful voting were worse than
useless. They we're inventions Of the
deyH. 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. lie
nine was for the great red baptism
Ii alone could cleanse the world and
make Il a decent place Ia 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-
z0Ded the war cry on the coat of arms
~ the boishevlk government in these
words: WORKERS OF the World,
Unite"
The boishevtS government has been
fasisfeuJ aud persistent In Its prop
Uganda, collecting aud pointing out the
causes for discomfort In other lands.
It has been a propa ganda Of hate, Il
has scattered broadcast. poison seeds
10 the soil Of unrest. Il has played
10 class feeling II has appealed TO
the lowest and worst In men. II has
written and spoken Of the Great War"
e. the enterprise Of capital II has
charged up the terrible shedding OF
blood to capitaIistic imperialism Il
has listed the il-eiIects Of the war and
charged them not to the war. but to
Capitalism II has pointed to the
poverty aud the dIs0rganization Of the
world. directly caused by the war
and attributed all Of these unhappy
results Of four year struggle with
autocracy. not 20 the war but 10 the
system Of so-called Bourgeois Govern
ment." Il has multiplied. m8guified
and intensified unrest. II hopes to
bring about great world fompnt
which viii destroy all government
except the government ~ the pro'eta,
riat the soviet plan. It's prOpa canda
has caused many 81 the people Of the
world 10 think that they are stlll fight
ing The regimes Of the czars. and that
reactionary governments everywhere
are consplring to bring about their
downfall and re-estahush the reign
and rule Of deSpots In Russia Il does
not make conspicuous The fact that the
car Is dead and that his regime has
passed forever
lenine Without Tolerston.
Len'ne decrles anyone and every
snc who does not accept HIS gos"el Of
world revolution He Is part' cularly
Bitter towards socialists who arr on
posed 70 his program Writing of
"the military program ~ the proletar
iat revolution" he concludes his ar
tlcle in 'he November Glass Struggle"
for 1919. Whoever In view of this
last WOr is NOT willing 80 carr, ont
this dewand let him be good enough
20 refra.u from utteriog large words
about tho International revolutionar,
dcrnocWcy. ahout the social revolution
and about The war against wars"
az fhoSe who have dared 10 81.
aounce mrtariS-s and demand diS0rm
ament Ienlne has written
"Who' will the proleJariat women ID
q prevent this? Merely dpnounre at
wars nud mtltariSm2 Merely ca,uenl
disarmament Never shall the womer
Of an onpresSed and rcvomflnnar,
class resign themselves 10 So deSpic
able role ON the contrary the
will SAY to their sons You Will soor
he grown up You will have gun
Take " and learn how 10 use it--no
In order to esht your brothers. as &
the practi~~ TN this war Of plumber
hut I'm order to fight the bourgeois O
your "own' country; 10 order 20 pu
an end to misery and wars. not h
means of kind wishes" but by owe,
throwing and diSarmlng the 3oul
geoisie'"
The third international" was valle
together to organize the tnovenen
against the peace Of the world.
net at Moscow from March . 10 Marc
1919 Il adopted q "manifesto
Shich was slgaed by Lenine an
rrorzky. the leading spirits Of the cor
yress of the communist lutxnatlona