Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-17
Hope Of Red
World Dies
In Trotzky
Speech Before International
Communist Conference in
Moscow Shows Deep
Disappointment.
Admits Soviet Defeats
BY S. d. WEYER.


Tor the first time the fog of con-
fiicting reports and rumors as to the
mental attitude of the Russian
soviet chieftains-their hopes and
disappointments-the international
News Service is able to give exclu-
sively today the judgment of Leon
Trotzky himself as 10 what he
thinks has been and can be accom-
plished by the doctrines upon which
the soviet republic is founded.
In a speech before the interna-
tional communist conference at
Moscow. held in the latter part of
June. and which has not been pub
lished, even partly. on this side of
the Atlantic. the bolshevist war min
is.er.. Lenine's right-hand man, ad-
rnftted for the first time that the
'bolshevist's goal is mot so near at
hand as il seemed to many of US
three or four years ago" He gave
what he believed to be the reasons
therefor, and added an expression of
confidence that the soviets would yet
aetain their aims. He showed at the
game time that Moscow has not yet
given up its hope for world revo-
luton.
The text of the speech, as wire
lesxed from Moscow to Berlin. was
received by the international News
Service in a circuitous route. II is
this speech, presumably, upon which
were based the many recent errone-
Gus cable dispatches to the effect
that Lenine and Trotzky had con-
fesss2 to collapse of their doctrine
and system. While the red war
minister's speech contains no such
admission. il does bear unmistakable
earmarks of deep disappointment, if
not partial disillusionment.
To. avoid errors or garbling in
transmission. the speech was for
warded TO New York in the origi-
nal form and ianguage-German-
IN which it was cabled to Berlin,
.neatly pasted up in strips upon pro-
'susely stamped blanks of the "Tele-
graphic des Deutsehen Reiches."
which still bear the Prussian eagle
in the top center.
Proletarian Pressure Urged.
eTrotzky's speech. which throws
IN illuminating light on the present i
ternner OF the soviet leaders. follows:
"Your conference occurs at time
which is no longer as clear and we'll
defined as was the period immediate
Is following the end OF the war. Our
enemies assert that the proletariat |
has proved its omnipotenee and
capitalism its vitality since in the
last two or three years capitalism !
has not been destroyed.
"The third internationale is now |
confronted with the question as to
whether the immediate future is to
be a period of the reconstruction and
fe-establishn1ent of capitalism or OF |
growing proletarian pressure. This
question | shall attempt to answer
,xhaustively before the plenary con-
ference of the communist interna-
,tionale.
"For the present / will only point |
but these facts:
THE war has destroyed millions |
Of lives and billions in economic
value Capitalism proposes TO re-
establish the shaken equilibrium.
Agitation VIII Spread to U. S.
"We cannot figure out with a pen
Gil whether capitalism will succeed
Ri this plan in the immediate future.
We can only say that if the lessons
Of the war. OF the Russian revolu-
ton and of the seui-revolution IN
Germany and Austria. If the lessons |
of the last seven years have made
no impression upon the proletariat, /
and if the proietariat were to bow |
its head willingly under the old yoke.
then the bourgeoisie would succeed
in rehahilitating its former domina-
ton. and the weight of its agitation
would be transferred to America.
Asia and Africa.
The diplomats and political
frents of the bourgeoisie are at
work trying TO realize this plan. |
sour goal in the battle against
world capitalism is not as near at
hand as it seemed to US three or
iour years ago.
Enormous Change.
s'The proletariat consists of many
diverse sections, all different in their
past and their political education.
Owing to the enormous change /
wrought by the war most OF the
oppressed and backward elements OF I
The proletariat are today the most /
impatient and most revolutionary, |
while these sections that have long
taken par IN the political evolution
are more. lutious and more reserved
and, in deed. are displaying GER
tain degree OF conservatism.
"It is for this reason that the
feminist movement has such a great
significance for the development OF
the revolutionary struggle. The army
Of women wage workers has been
tremendously impressed during the
war and revolution.
This is particularly noticeable in
the far east. In Japan, for instance,
the number Of women wage workers
is greater than that of men. That
alone is proof that the participation
Of workers in the common revolu-
tionary movement must grow.
Among the tasks of the third IN
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