The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-08
By WILLIAM z. puNNE.

the social revolution hailed the dawn
OF new era and vindicated forever
the theories of Marx-the master The
Peters of the Second International,
long engaged in distorting the Marx
ian method and thereby betraying the
working class. denied the faith they
had prostituted when they heard its
lusty challenge signalling the mighty
blow the Russian workers and pea
SAINTS dealt world capitalism. The So
cialists Of the Second International be-
came the bitterest enemies Of the
Russian revolution, but the Russian
revolution, the Union of Socialist Sow
let Republics and the world revolu-
ton still live. They become stronger
each day and under the leadership of
the Communist decentralization of
the imperialist war and the Russian
revolution = organize the working
class for the capture of power in
every country. X ~
What forces made. the revolution in
Russia-not only the complete over
throw of capitalism and aristocracy,
but the bourgeois revolution that pre-
ceded the final surrender Of the state
power to the workers and peasants?
The social democrats hailed the pro-
visional government that arose after
the abdication of the car as the final
triumph Of democracy. The mass
movement of the workers and pea
SAINTS was supposed to stop there and
wait for the social democratic saviors
to make further improvements.
Howls of rage from every strong
hold Of social democracy greeted the
rise of the Soviets and when the die
tatorship of the workers and pea
SAINTS was established and the Ker-
ensky government was thrown on the
scrap pile with other garbage of his
tory, the anger of the erstwhile saw
Tors of the working class was uncon-
trollable. They renewed their allegi-
ance to the capitalist class and fur
nished the democratic smoke screen
behind which operated the murderous
forces of world Imperialism.
1t was not the middle class and
capitalist class of Russia that over
threw czarism nor was it the liberal
and social-democratic intelligentsia
that composed the provisional govern
ment. Nothing was further from the
minds of these elements than the
abolition of the Romanoff dynasty.
They wanted, just as the imperialist
allied governments wanted, a change
in personnel, a palace revolution that
would, by giving democratic color to
the Russian regime, pacify the masses
and enable Russia to prosecute the
war more efficiently.
The Russian bourgeoisie had learn
ed lesson in 1905. They had no
intention Of releasing social forces
that would set in motion the great
mass Of the oppressed in Russia but
they miscalculated the extent of the
discomfort, they underestimate the
revolutionary elan of the Russian
workers and after the overthrow of
the car by the Russian masses, in
eight months, marched straight thru
the defenses Of Russian capitalism to
the dictatorship or the prOletariat.
1t is just as well to settle here the
part played in the overthrow Of the
car by the cadets and the social de-
mocrats. As late as March 4, 1917,
Milyukov had declared in the Duma
that Constantinople was Russia's goal
and that "If we cannot conquer with
this government. we will conquer in
spite of this government, but we will
be victorious" The Duma was inter-
ested only in the imperialistic aims
Of the war, but the people were hun
gry. The Duma did nothing to control
the food supply. It tried to win the
war by talking and to allay mass dis
content by the same method.
The working class took matters In
its own hands. On March 8, mass
strikes were declared in the Putiioff