The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-23
Lenin-- Communist

Nicolai Lenin for seven glorious and terrible
wears the head of the first Workers and Farm
ers' government the world has ever seen, Is
dead. His passing removes from the world
arena of the class conflict man whose life has
been spent in that struggle, who had no inter-
ests outside that struggle, and who died from
wounds inflicted by the enemies of the revolu-
tionary and conquering worl1ing-class OF
Russia.
NicoIai Lenin was Communist and great
because of that fact There can be no thought
Of Lenin without the Communist Party of
Russia and the Third International of which It
is a part No greater compliment can be paid
any man than this. Living, Lenin tyPihed the
iron determination and blazing courage of the
parties of the Third International the world
over. Dead, his teac hings and his example
become a source of inspiration for new
achievements and new victories.
In the pages of history that the children of
the present generation of working-class fight
ers will read and wonder over, no name will be
more reverenced than that of Lenin, no organ
ization with longer lise of seemingly insur-
mountable obstacles welcome than the Com
munist Party of Russia, Which he did so much
to build and which he ed to power.
Communists believe q power-power for
masses of the workers Ind farmers, and no
cosnrr1Dulon 10 xite theory and tactics
of the class struggle exceeds in Importance
Lenin's gospeI-the necessity for the seizure
and consolidation of power by the workers and
farmers.
The masses followed the Communist Party
of Russia and became the ruling class
They chose Lenin to head the government
and the revolutionary fighter became the revp-
lutionary statesman--the greatest statesman of
all time-great because he never forgot the
need of the working masses for power and
never forgot that the source of power, the de-
tense of the revolution, was the mass of work
ers and peasants.
Sure in the knowledge acquired by the study
as an exile and by bitter experience in the
class struggle, he never wavered in the darkest
hours of the revolution, when the newborn
workers and peasants state was ringed
around with the steel of the capitalist world.
From Lenin, thru the Communist Party of
Russia to the masses of Russia went a sure
message of hope and courage. Thru the Com
munist international goes the same message
today to the workers of the World.
Lenin is dead. The working-class has lost
ats greatest leader and teacher. But the Com
nnunist international lives as he meant it should
and as he knew it would.
Il is the weapon which he did so much to
forge and the weapon that the workers the
world over have learned to use. 1t is his legacy
to the workers whom he loved with all his
great heart and his challenge from the grave to
the capitalist system that he hated with all the
strength of his great mind.
We in America will mourn as the struggling
toilers of the whole globe, will mourn tho he
would want mourners
But from every great gathering of workers
held to praise and commemorate the death of
the greatest of all revolutionists, who lived to
see capitalism overthrow on one-sixth of the
earth's surface, will go up a mighty cry that
will shake the already crumbling foundations
of world capitalism;
LENIN is DEADl LONG LIVE THE
WORLD REVOLUTION AND THE
PARTY OF THE WORLD REVOLUTION
THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL
Lenin died after the victory of his party and
the masses which It leads so well.
No Communist could wish for better fortune
nor will any Communist shrink from the added
burdens that his loss throws upon the Commun-
ist international and It's sections in every
country.
To do well the new tasks that the increasing
instability of capitalism brings 10 the only way
Of perpetuating the memory of Lenin of which
no would approve.
WE WILL NOT FALL