Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-08-05
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in
Europe Follow the Great
World War?
BoLsHEWST SEEDS OF POISON
Avowed Object Of the Leaders OF the
Movement Is to Stir Up Hatred
of Law and Order Every
where.
Article XVIII.
BY FRANK coMERFoRD.

"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 imperialist governments by
means Of armed revolt is the road to
the international dictatorship of the
working class" In these words, Bu-
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 Petr0-
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
contented of the world to rise in rev
| olution against their governments. All
| existing governments were vile, lenine
said, and they must be Overthr0wn,
| 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. Ie-
fa.iuss VA 4 for The great "red laptlyx I
| 1t alone could cieanseAthe world aissf'
make it decent place in which TO
live He wrote the aim and object
of bolshevism into the soviet const-
tuition when he defined the funda-
mental problem as being the victory
of socialism in all lands" He bla-
ZOned the war cry on the goat of arms
of the bolshevik government in these
words: "Workers of the World,
Unite.S
The bolSheyik government has been
insistent and persistent in its prop
aganda. collecting and pointing out the
causes for discomfort in other lands.
1t has been propaganda of hate. 1t
has scattered broadcast, poison seeds
in the soil of unrest. 1t 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. 1t
has listed the lll-effects of the war and
charged them not to the war, but to
Capitalism. 1t has pointed to the
poverty and the disorganization 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-called Bourgeois Govern
ment." 1t has multiplied, magnfed
and intensified unrest. 1t hopes TO
bring about great world foment
which will destroy all government
except the government OF the proleta-
riat, the soviet plan. It's 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
reactionary governments everywhere
uTe ConSplIIHB W DflsS "b'hl 'h''
downfall and re-establish the reign
and rule of despots in Russia. II does
not make conspicuous the fact that the
czar is dead and that his regime has
passed forever.
Lenine Without federation.
Ienine 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-
Int 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
tn refrain from utterlng large words
about the international revolutionary
democracy, about the social revolution
and about the war against wars
or those who have dared To de-
nounce militarism and demand disarm-
ament Lenine has written:
"What will the proletariat women do
to prevent this? Merely denounce all
wars and mlltarism? Merely demand
disarmament2 Never shall the women
of nm oppressed and revolutionary
class resign themselves to so despic-
able a role On the contrary they
A.. tbair annu, won will qnnn