The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-08
in Russia IS COMPLETED.

DuJ at ILLS punt We near luO SuOutr
of directors who call themselves 'old
Bolshevili': Didn't we always main
tain that a bourgeois democratic re-
volution is ended by revolutionary
dictatorship of the proletariat and
the peasantry? Is the agrarian revo-
luton, which is a phase Of the bour-
beois democratic revolution, complet-
ed? On the contrary, is it rather not
a fact that it has not yet begun?
my answer is: Bolshevist slogans
and ideas in general have been con-
nrmed by history; but concretely
things have developed somewhat diff
ferently than was expected, assum-
ed more original, peculiar and var
led form.
ITO ignore, to forget this fact would
mean to resemble those old Bolshe-
wiki who more than once have play
ed a sad role in the history Of our
party by repeating senseless learned
formulate instead of studying the
peculiarities Of the new, the living,
reanLy Oh LnlnBS.
Lenin dealt with the fact (already
mentioned above) that there were in
existence in Russia two state govern
ments; that of the bourgeois and, as
he said sarcastically, ''the revolution
ary-democratic dictatorship of the
proletariat and peasantry which vol
unfairly relinquishes power to the
bourgeoisie, voluntarily converting it.
self into an appendage of the bour-
geoisie."
"And So" said Lenin, 1.-THE form
ula (of a revoIutionary-democratic
dictatorship Of the proletariat) has
already become old. In the
order Of the day there Is a new
problem; the split WITHIN this die
tatcrship between the proIetarian
elements 1.-THE anti-war information
aIlsts and Communists who stand
for transition to the eommune) and
the petty bourgeois elements
(Cheicse, TseretelIi, StekIov, social
revoIutionists and other revolution
ary' anti-defeatIst opponents of the
movement toward the commune,
adherents Of support Of the bour-
geois and the bourgeois govern
ment)."
"He who speaks now only Of a
revolutionary-demo dictator
ship Of the proIetariat and peasant
ry,' is behind the times, and because
of that has de facto gone over to
the petty bourgeoisie against the
proletarian class struggle; he
should be reIegated to the museum
Of 'BolsheVist' personal---very.
relics"
Once the Bolshevili had accepted
the thesis of Lenin ON the new stu
alton and the tactics indicated, the
proletarian revolution drove ahead
with resistless power. The Bolshe-
Wiki by their own acts and the Rus
sian masses by theirs, gave the final
answer to the confused and treacher-
GUS adherents of reformism.
When the constituent assembly met
all power was already in the hands
of the Soviets and it required but a
handful Of Red guards to send the
|"statesmen" home-or to Jail.
The Bolsheviki had correctly esti-
mated the revolutionary conscious
ness and will to power of the Russian
workers. The Russian working class
lived in a country where industry. in
spite Of the generally backward char
acter of the nation, was OF highly
concentrated character. The advanc-
ed section of the Russian workers
had absorbed the MARKHAM theory to
an extent unknown in any other coun-
try. They had the record Of the revo-
lutionary efforts Of the working class
Of Western Europe before them.
Above all they had passed thru the
bloody revolution of 1905 and its rich
experiences were still fresh in their
memories. The Russian masses were
equipped for struggle as no other
class has ever been equipped and
they had the additional advantage