Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-25
AS ONE WOMAN SEES IT
Book Picked UP In Greenwich Village
Finds lts Answer In Wilkes.
Barre and Rittenhouse
Square
~ SARAH d. LowRuE
TN GREENWICH yILLACE--.so cs

odicals, which, though varied in shape and
color and design, seemed to contain an al
most parallel assortment Of verse, illustrs-
tions, comments arid critical essays, all
| pitched in a high monotonous key Of wild
prattlc,like an infant that had got the
wanted to buy at least one OF the masa
zines as sample Of Made in Greenwich
village lore" but ! did not know which
was the magazine and which was poor
copy, and did not like to ask the careless
young person who was chatting with
visitor over desk in the center Of the little
crowded place. All the drawings on the
covers were Of the Coop family, with very
small heads, larger shoulders than the heads
warranted and larger hips and calves than
were needed for the shoulders. IL you did
not think of the Goops you thought Of ante
diluvian animals, and that you would
rather see, than be one,' and just when you
were getting up your courage to acquire the
one your eyes fell on last, you saw that the.
price was prohibitive and that the date was
November OF last year, SO you looked about
for something just as queer but cheaper. At
least that is what did until my hand fell
Inadvertently on a smallish blue paper book
marked forty cents, by n. Lenin." 1t
had no Illustrations and contained no poetry,
but 1t looked dangerous 80 l paid the forty
cents and went off with it in my pocket.
CINCE then l have read it with amaze
ganda for an overthrow OF the present Gov
ernment, but because OF the curious fallacies
upon which it bases its crude dogmas. The
trick seems>to be arbitrarily to call some
humans bourgeosie aud others the proletariat
and then hiss them one another as born
enemies, as though the mere calling of one
man an exploiter and the other man the
exploited would make them so
This little blue book is one of a series
printed by a society called "The MARKHAM
Educational Society" Its title is The Pro-
letariau Revolution One wonders whom
it ''educates. The author, n. Lenin, seems
also to be V. ]. Ulinov in some other Ian
guage, perhaps Russian. and his whole being
is wrapped in fame of hatred against one
kautsky. whom be calls ''The Renegade.
This kautsky has. it appears. written a
book on socialism and on MARKHAM phil
osophy, which allows the bourgcoisie some
ground to stand on even to sit on when leg
weary. Which is why y. Leuin, nee
Clinov, feels impclled to vituperate. His
vitupcration is continuous. / give the fol-
lowing samples
Excerpts From the Communistic Primer
The sum total is that Kautsky has dis
torted in a most unprecedented manner the
ilca of dictatorship Of the proletariat by
turning Marx into q humdrum Liberal
Liberal who talks banalities
about pure democracy" DISCUSSES under
attractive wells the class character of
bourgeois democracy and above all is
mortally afraid of revolutionary violence
on the part Of the oppressed class.
Kautsky. with the learned air Of a most
learned arm chair fool or else with the
most innocent air of a ten -yearold girl,
is asking, why do we-the proletariat-
need 4 dictatorship, when we have a
majority" and Marx and Engels explain:
I'm order to break down the resistance
Of the bourgcoisie, in order to inspire the
rcactionaries with fear, in order to main
tain the authority Of the armed people
acknowledgements the bourgeoisie, in
order that the prolctariat may forcibly
suppress it's enemies" But Kautsky does
not understand these explanations. He
is infatuated with pure democracy
he does not see its bourgeois character,
aud Consistently urges that the major
ity, once it is the majority. has no need
TO break down resistance >in the mi
nority, has no need TO forcibly suppress
it: il is sufficient to suppress eases of
the infraction Of democracy" infatuated
with the purity OF democracy, kautsky
uDwittingly commits the same little error
which is committed by all the bourgeois
democrats, namely he accepts the formal
equality. which. under capitalism, is only
fraud and a piece of hypocrisy. =,
The cxploiter cannot equal the exploited
this is truth which, however disgrace
full TO Kautsky. is nevertheless of the
essence of socialism except in
rare and particular cases the cIpoiters
cannot be destroyed at once. 1t is i'm
possible TO appropriate at one blow all
landlords and capitalists in q large coun-
try since il Is necessary
practically to replace the landlords and
capitalists, to substitute for theirs an
other, working class management of the
factories and estates. There can be no
equality between the exploiters, who for
many generations have enjoyed education
and the advantages and habits of prosper
ty, and the exploited, the majority of
whom even in the most advanced and the
most democratic bourgeois republics are
cowed, frightened, ignorant unorganized.
What forms a necessary aspect,
or necessary condition of--proletarian--
dictatorship is the forcible suppression Of
the cxploiters as class the
proletariat cannot triumph without
breaking the resistance of the bourgeoisic,
without forcibly suppressing its enemies.
And that where there is forcible suppress
sion there is. Of course, no freedom no
democracy, this Kautsky did not under
stand. -
The asterisks in the above quotation are
only TO save time. y. Lenin. nee Ulinov
being somewhat given to repetition in his
hatred of the unfortunate kautsky and promo
to 20 off on little tangents Of vituperation
against the class his enemy is supposed to
be bootlicking. which is sometimes called the
cspitalistic sometimes the c1poter aud
sometimes the bourgeoisie in distinction TO
the proetariat, the exploited or the cowed
frightened, ignorant and unorganlzed.
T HAVE Just come down from wilkes
i Barre. where coal is delivered at the bin
for $40, and where the miners go about the
streets. drove through some thirty of the
mining towns and villages and saw big,
hearty, jolly children pouring out of great
school buildings. / saw crowded town
squares and shops with the pretty girls of
,.aynlo;ted,' nroIetariats buyug very nretty
and good summer clothes, and at the movie
! had to stand because the whole of one
town had poured into its movie hall to sec
Mary Pickford rescued by handsome and
moral hcro--capitalist bourgeoisie, pro-
ietariats. exploited aud exploiters, jostling
for seats, first come, first served.
nNE need not go to Wilkes Barre. One
Oonly has to sit pleasantly on a bench in
Rittenhouse Square to realize that there is
such thing as democracy, not Of a class,
but of a whole people. The children of all
onIors md men and WON en- of all life callngs