Evening star., 1924-08-05


bound to be suppressed with great
bloodshed.
Radek Punished for Moderation.
The appeal of Radek and the old
German executive was rejected in due
| course by the political bureau, by the
bolshevist central committee and by
the congresses of the Russian Com
| munist party and the Communist In
ternationale. Radek has been ousted
in. punishment from all his Offices in
the Russian government in the Rus
sian Communist party and the Com
munist Internationale. The recalci-
trant German executive has been sup,
planted by one willing to undertake
to carry out the new regime of vfo-
militant activism" has now been
adopted as mandatory for Communist
organizations in all countries, not
Germany alone.
Radek made Il valiant fight in every
possible Communist instance and i'll
the protracted debates the mask was
dropped, not only about the measures
OF violence of the proposed policy of
militant activism, but about the die
tatorial control of Moscow over all
non Russian Communist parties.
The Pravda, official organ of the
Russian bolshevists, boasted of this
in an editorial May 27, saying, Our
section of the Communist Interna-
only for itself, but for all the brother
parties which are enlisting in the
fighting army on the strength of our
experience"
The menace of Moscow to the peace
and security Of the world at large
policy of violence and through it's
domination of the Third Interna-
tionale and the allied Communist
parties is grave, indeed, and may en-
tail considerable bloodshed, particu
larly in Germany. Bulgaria and sever
al other countries selected a the best
stages to display militant activism.
World Peace Not Menaced.
am inclined to believe, on the
strength of extended contact with the
Communist movement outside and in
side Russia, that the cost to world
peace of the new policy will be less
than the Moscow leaders hope.
1t is not the first time that party
leaders in Germany and other coun-
tries have been replaced by others
pledged to carry out a policy of vio-
lence to the uttermost and to spill
non Russian Communist blood vail
antly for Russian bolshevist aims.
1t is not the first time that lukewarm
ueleR6tlOnS nave returned from MOS
COW fired with impulses to violence
and slaughter even of their country
men. They usually cool down as time
passes and the influence of Moscow
wanes. 1t would be impolite to say
they get cold feet, but they do be-
come more polite as they realize
the chances of defeat. They usually
end by becoming as lukewarm as
their predecessors.
Trotsky is in disgrace with the
bolshevik machine, but he is still
great name, If not the greatest name
among living Communists. 1t may be,
therefore, that when European Com
munist leaders are called upon to
sacrifice the lives of their followers
and themselves in the desperate hope
of bringing on the proletarian revo-
luton they will ponder on Trotsky's
statement that such favorable condi-
tions for a proletarian revolution in
Germany as existed last autumn will
never come again. Every condition
of success, he said, was present but
one-namely. that German Commun-
lists are not of the same stuff as the
Russian helshevists of 1917 and lack
the temper and judgment necessary
for successful revolution.
The same criticism applies to all
the other Communist organizations,-so
1t is probab BILE bofshevism will have
to walt for its next opportunity to
try out the. manual OF civil war"
until the expected European war.
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