The daily worker., 1924-05-03

IbO AOlAC Ce1J at DdluOAis WHICH tAG III
dian workers and peasants were or
dered to pay rent and taxes to the
landlords and government, and their
attempts at mass action repudiated
by the leader Of the nation.
Steady Decline.
From that moment to the arrest
and Imprisonment of Mr.. Gandhi, his
sentence to six years in jail and his
release after serving two years, the
Indian movement for freedom has
suffered a constant decline until to-
day the government is so sure Of it's
strength and power that they can re-
lease the Prophet of Non-violent
Non-co-operation, based upon Soul
Force, with impunity. No terser
commentary is needed upon the col
lapse of a great movement.
What of Lenin, the Communist?
Meanwhile, what of the Russian
Revolution, whose leader lies cold be-
meath the winter SHOWS of Moscow,
mourned by hundred and sixty mil
lions OF his fellow-citizens and by the
millions OF workers and peasants
thruout the world who received,
however remotely, his message OF
emancipation?
Has this revolution, successfully
made and maintained against the on
slaughts of its countless enemies dur
ing the past seven years, proved itself
an illusion, Utopia unrealized in
actuality?
Has Russia returned to capitalism,
as alleged by its capitalist foes who
can make no worse allegation?
Has the Revolution of October,
1917, betrayed its declared ideal of
being the precursor Of the Interna-
tional Socialist Revolution?
By the answer to these questions
must the life and work Of Nicolai
Lenin and his followers, the Russian
Communist Party, be judged, and by
the eventual working out of those
problems which the Russian Revolu-
tion has propounded to the world,
will Lenin's true greatness be revealed
to posterity. OF Wilson and Gandhf
we can say at once that they have
failed; history awaits no verdict.
But the work of Lenin remains un-
finished, in transition state as he
himself predicted
Russian Revolution a Fact.
Meanwhile we can. know this much,
that the Revolution is an accom-
plished fact. The Russian autocracy
and corrupt bureauracy are no more.
The old bourgeoisie has been over
thrown. War and revolution have
given way to peace. Military Com.
munism has made way for the New
Economic Policy, which is an ex-
preston of what Lenin termed
state Capitalism"
The dictatorship of the proletariat
rules in the Union of Socialist Soviet
Republics, which is the new name for
the group of autonomous and inde-
pendent federated states that once
constituted the Empire of the Czar.
Church has been separated from
state. Land and great industries
have been nationalized. Foreign
trade remains in the hands of the
state. The old secret treaties have
been published and repudiated. Rus
sian imperialism has ceased to exist.
Freedom to subject peoples has been
granted. The old form of state based
upon property and privilege has given
way to the new form known as the
Soviet, based upon occupation. The
D~.- n
to new form of government as well
as to a new social system based upon
social instead of private ownership in
the principal means of production,
distribution and exchange.
The slogans OF the Bolsheviks in
1878: Peace, land and bread;
"All power to the Soviets"; "The Die
tatorship Of the Proletariat"; Free
dom of Subject Nationalities within
tf.x.