Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1920-08-21
PROBLEMSFACING
STRICKEN WORLD
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in
Europe follow the Great
y!orId War?
RULSHEWST SEEDS OF POISON
Avowed Object Of the Leaders Of the
Movement Is to Stir Up Hatred
Of Law and Order Every.
where.
BULSHEWST SEEDS OF POISON
Article XVIII.
gv FRANK coMERFoRD.

"ttC program W '"t communist
party Rolsheviks) is the program not
onIv of the liberation of the proletar-
lat of one country. 1t is the program
Of the liberation Of the proIetarlat Of
all countries; 1t is the program Of
international revolution. The over
throw Of imperialist governments hy
means Of armed revolt is the road Ia
the international dictatorship of the
working class" In these words Blu
charm. accredited and recognized hal-
Shevik propaganda, set forth the OBJ
iect 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
ImperiaIistic war into a civil war"
His aim was TO force upon Russia
Communism. and 10 summon the dis
rnntented Of the world to rise In rev.
olition against their governments. All
existing governments We're vile, lentne
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 he
used; the workers must arm them
selves and fight; the world could not
come 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 il 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 rs being the victory
Of socialism in all lands" He hla-
zoned the war cry on the coat of arms
If 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 0Ht the
causes for discOntent in other lands
II has been propaganda of hate. II
has scattered. Broadcast, poison seeds
in the soil of unrest. 1t has played
to class feeling 1t has appealed to
ihe lowest andIworst in men. 1t has
written and spden of the Great War"
as the enterprise of capital. 1t has
charged up the terrible shedding of
blood to capitlistic imperialism. 1t
has listed The psa.fs-ts ef the war and
charged themfnot to the war, but to
Capitalism. I IT has pointed TO the
poverty and the DISCRIMINATION of the
world, directly caused by the war,
and attributed. all of these unhappy
results of a four year struggle with
autocracy, not to the war but to the
system of so-cailed Bourgeois Govern
ment." 1t has multiplied. magnified
and intensified unrest. 1t hopes TO
bring about great world foment
which will destroy all government
except the government of the proieta-
riat. the soviet plan. lis propaganda
has caused many of the people of the
world to think that they are still fight
ing the regimes Of the cZars. and that
ceactionary governments everywhere
are conspiring to bring about their
downfall and re-establish the reign
and rule Of despots in Russia. 1t does
not make conspicuous the fact that the
czar is dead and that his regime has
passed forever.
Lenfne Without liberation.
Lenine decries anyone and every
,ne 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-
iat revolution" he concludes his ar
ticle In the November "Class Struggle
Tor 1919: "Whoevpr. IN view Of this
asst war, is not willing TO carry out
this demand. let him be good enough
70 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.
lounce militarism and demand disarm-
ament Lenine has written:
What wifi the proletariat women do
q prevent this? Merely denounce all
wars and militarism? Merely demand
disarmament? Never shall the women
If an oppressed and revolutionary
-iass resign themselves to so despic-
able a role. On the contrary. they
will saw TO their sons: You will soon
,e grown up. You will have gun
Fake It and learn how to use it-not
n order to fight your brothers. as Is
he practice in this war of plumber
cut 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
.ogether TO organize the movement
against the peace Of the world. II
net at Moscow from March 2 to March
). 1919; 1t adopted a manifesto
which was signed by Lenine and
Trotzky. the leading spirits of the con
gress of The communist international