The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-03-26

one In many countries we note antlparlla-
mentarism. which, however, appears not so
much among those who have come out from /
the petty bourgeoisie, as it is supported by
forward-looking detachments of the prole-
itariat land by hatred for the old parliament
arism, lawful and quite correct hatred for
the conduct of parliamentary opportunists
in England, France, Germany, and Italy,
such as we have Witnessed in these countries
for decades.
1T is necessary to explain the essense of
the matter, give. directing interpretations
acquaint the comrades more intimately and
directly with the Russian experience, and
with the significance Of political parties.
This. ask will i'm the main reresent our work.
'I believe that here the struggle against
these mistakes in the proletarian movement,
against the diseases of proletarian growth,
will be thousand times easier than the
struggle against the bourgeoisie, which, un-
der the form of opportunists and reformists,
enter the parties of the II International and
direct it's work, not to the benefit of the
proletariat, but to the benefit of the bour
geoisie.
Is This World Congress?
"I shall speak of one aspect of the question.
Our comrade president says that our Con-
gress deserves the name of world wide. |
believe he is right, because we have at the
Congress representatives of the reactionary
movment of the colonial countries, which
have been the last to come into the move
| ment.
'It is only a feeble beginning, but it is
important that the beginning has been
made. 1t is important that there has come
about revolutionary union of the progres.
sive countries with the countries where there
is practically no revolutionary proletariat,
with the revolutionary masses of the OPP
pressed in all colonies and i'm all oriental
States. And it depends on us to see toit that
/ this union is strengthened, for it is clear
i tc everyone that capitalism must fall.
"Only when the revolutionary pressure Of
worknen,, which is comquering the opposition
of the bourgeois culture of the small group
! of aristocratic leaders of the labor move
i ment, shall have Joined with the revolutio
nary pressure of those hundreds OF thou
sands of men who till now have stood outside
history and have been regarded as the ob
iect of imperialistic enterprises only ther
81, " we have the world revolutionary move
ment. No serious statesman, writer, or work
er of the old Social Democracy took init
account the fact that the Revolutionary
movement among these hundreds of thou
sands would amount to anything. But
has an enormous significance. The imperial
istic war helped us, because it dragged thes
colonial countries from isolation, 1T took iron
them soldiers to participate in the imperial
istic slaughter, and through the Englisl
bourgeoisie inspired them with the lde
that the task of the Indian proletarian 0
peasant is to defend the interests OF tn
English bourgeoisie. The war inspired TN
black colonial peoples with the idea that
is their task to defend colonial France, an
, it taught them to know how to use firearms
This is exceedingly useful knowledge and TO
il we convey to the bourgeoisie our deepes
gratitude in the name of the workernen an
; peasants, and particularly in the name 0
the Red Army.