The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-06-25
From, The New Republic--By Mossaye y. Oleirs

principle he is the master e enjoys the fruit OF the
revolution. no matter how Iirksome his everyday
istence may be. He breads think OF the recent past.
CLASS DIFFEREN eEs WIPED OUT.
Ono has 70 live in Russia to realize this funda-
mental fact. Even in appearance the lower classes
used TO be distinguished from the integentsia and
the men higher up Now The difference has disap-
neared Everybody wears the garb of the poor Col
epe professors and brcklayers look alike. factory
hand in the role of Commissar may be even better
dressed than the former manager of the concern.
This NAV not add to the happiness of the professor
or the engineer but certainly thrills the man of
the rank and file Immediate want, anxiety, fatigue,
r;gid discipline and coercion may temporarily be-
cloud his vision and make him forget the glory of his
new state Yet the consciousness is there 1t is never
erased. It affects his mind against his will.
He has risen to new standing in society, he may
in due course of time set an example to the world
and this he owes to the social revolution. This ne
knows well: it is too palpabe to be overlooked.
Whoever fails to realize this enormous fact in the
life of revolutionary Russia is apt to bunder in the
most pitiful way To him the Russians must seem
herd of terrified cattle drivery by the club of
madman. The fact is, that only because the Com
mIlnlSt party remdlneu W VI
the October revolution could it become the driving
force in Soviet Russia. The revolution created
basis the Communist party supplied the living spirit
for the attempt at constructing new society out
of chaos. The masses followed because, immediate
suffering Notwithstanding, they consciously or sub
consciously cherished the idea of this new order.
The Communist party grew in power because, out
of the many factions of Socialists in Russia it alone
accepted the October revolution. When "All power
to the SOviets" became fat accompli the Socialists
Revoutionaries the Menshevik and all the other
friends of the masses" Immediately withdrew They
were disgusted. They had not vestige of faith in
the rule of the Soviets. They strenuOusly opposed
the October revolution, failing to recognize thatt
was not an uprising of the Bolsheviki, but hur-
ricane like movement of the masses. The field was
left to the Bolshevki. They the only organized
group working with the Soviets l. e., with the work.
ingmen soldiers and peasants, at that historic juno
ture They naturally filled the most important Of
fices. They occupied the strategic positions. They
became indispensable in the management of the
country They acquired the experience of adminisra-
ton. In the of time the inertia of power
to their assistance. There is inertia in political
power when people grow to recognize certain group
as the natural leaders.
A PARTY OF ACTION.
Inertia Alone however;is poor support in tur-
buIent times The Communists could not manage to
live on the merits Of thdasSt, Their main strength
is in the present, always in the present They are
the. only political party in Russia which has pro-
gram for every day, for every hour. They may err
Gas with management of industries by committees),
they may underestimate tendency Gas with abOli-
tion of small trade) they may oyerreach themselves
Gas with last summers march on Warsaw, yet they
have always the courage and candor to acknowledge
error and take new path. They are never afraid
of their errors, and in the most crucial moments they
are always ready with new plan of action, new
series of measures clearly defined line which, in
their opinion, must save the country and the revo-
luton. They never forsOOk the principles of the
vOlution. At time when some of the Menshevki
and Socialists -RevoutiOnaries were conspirng with
the White generals in Russia and with the inter-
ventiOnists abroad at time when Others the Left
Wing, were untiringly complaining and whining,
secretly cherishing the utopia of a return to pre-
October times, the Boshevik alone vigorously de-
Tended the main achievements of the revolution,
never seriously deviatng from them in the con-
structon of their program. BY this they gained i'm
mensely in the esteem of the masses.
The Communists are the only party Of action.
They do not rely upon an abstract program any
longer, they always appeal to concrete action.
Whether it is the organization of the Red army, the
repair work in railroad shops the raising of crops
or the reconstruction of the Donetz coal mines;
whether the task is to fight the Whites at the