The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-03

MAYHEM the All-Russian Central
wv Trade Union Council sent a
delegation to the International Peace
Conference at the Hague which was
convened by the Amsterdam Interna-
tional in December, 1922, Vladimir
Ilyitch, Lenin, exhausted by the work
for the World Congress Of the Comm
tern just ended, was unable to take
part in the consultations held by the
Congress of the Comintern of the
Russian Communist Party with the
delegation of the Trade Union Council
with regard to the tactics to be adopt
ed by our delegation. Lenin discussed
this question with some of the mem
bers of the Congress of the Comintern
and drew up sketch of theses, which
was handed me on the day left for
the Hague. These theses may be re-
garded as Lenin's last utterance on
general questions Of Comintern pol
icy. They are of such eminent inn
portance that they must not only be
brought to the notice of the broadcast
masses of revolutionary workers, but
must be studied and thought out with
the utmost care, to the end that the
Comintern and it's sections shall draw
the concretest practical conclusions
therefrom.
Lenin at once seized the bull by
the horns. He declared that none
I but the completest fools and most
hopeless liars could suppose" that we
could reply to war by revolution or
strike: ut is impossible to reply to
war by a strike, just as it is impos-
sible to reply to war by a 'revolu-
ton in the plain and literal sense
of the word"
Four years of war and six years of
peace lie behind us, and the peace
years have not been much better than
the war years. Not only do the ma
jority of the reformist leaders quiet
the masses of the workers by declar-
ing that they will not be thrown into
the jaws of war again as cannon fod-
der, but the masses of the workers
themselves regard fresh war as i'm
possible, because they are afraid of
the possibility. Great masses of
workers in western Europe take part
in the pacifist demonstrations held
under the slogan of Never again,
war!" The rejection of the idea of
the possibility of war by the masses
who have not yet attained to class
consciousness awakens among the
communists an over-estimation of
their own powers, and an over-esti-
nation of the revolutionary energy
of the proletariat. 1t is for this rea-
son that they frequently, as Lenin
observes, make entirely wrong and
frivolous assertions about war against
war"
The great realist and strategist Of
the proletarian struggle did not shut
his eyes to the disagreeable truth:
1--WE give the masses no actual living
idea of how a war can break out. On
the contrary, the dominating press
bushes this question up to such an
extent and spreads such daily veil
of lies over it, that the weak So
cialist press is completely powerless
in comparison, the more in that it has
always adopted wrong viewpoint on
the subject, even in peace times.
Even the communist press is at fault
in this respect in most countries
Those who peruse our communist
press attentively will be aware that
it devotes a comparatively large
amount of attention to questions of
international politics, but with few
exceptions publishes but little con-
crete material on the economic sub
structure of all international con-
flicts, altho there is an abundance Of
this material in the international
bourgeois press and literature. How
many communist newspapers are
there which devote any attention to
the excellent works published by De-
laisy on the reparation question, and