The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11


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MOST of the. events Of history
lVI the big, Transforming phenom-
ena which swing the human world to
new orbits passed by without their
real significance being known to
masses Of men Of the time, even to
those whose lives were most affected,
and even to those most active in
bringing about the change. The
masses of men when tumbled about
by the mighty phenomena of revolu-
ton, are likely not to know or even
suspect the real cause, tho it comes
from within themselves, and are
likely to attribute it to some UNI
known "superhuman" power, as tho
the world were an ant-hill suddenly
disturbed by some outer agency.
The real significance, the essence,
the cause of great upheavals are lost
in maze of misinterpretations based
upon fetishes and feeble theories of
a dead and gone past. or dying pres
emit. Only in generations later are
the real historical essences painstak-
ingly dug up by men freed Of the
theology Of the dead order.
Hardly more than the dreamy peas
ant girl, Joan of Arc, did the French
Dauphin or his military or political
leaders understand the meaning of
the then revolutionary nationalism
whose active agents they were in
clearing away the feudal seperatism
and making France political unit
Covered with the molasses of ideal
ism we're the bourgeois revolutions of
England, America. and France; and
their meaning hidden until later in
terpreted by the new materialist phi
losophers.
But Now a Change.
But in these modern times of pro-
Ietarian revolution-led and governed
by materialist philosophy-wil the
biggest events ever breaking upon the
world be hidden again in the fog of
past conceptions? Will the Russian
revolution, which is only the first of
a whole series in world-revolution.
will it, can it be understood by any
great numbers of those who live to-
day?
We have the bourgeois interpreta-
tions of the Russian revolution
crazy maze. an hysterical application
Of petty shop-keepers' conceptions of
good" and evil" of big bankers
conceptions of normally and of
Grand Dukes conceptions of "civiliza-
ton" A smothering avalanche of
such Interpretations" OF the present
revolutionary epoch has, Of course,
fallen upon the masses from on high;
it has submerged great part Of the
masses. To the petty shop-keeper the
Russian Revolution is due to bad
men, whose motives are the same as
the motives OF petty shop-keeper
himself when he gets drunk, or when
he falls into temptation to beat his
wife or to burn down his shop in
order to collect the insurance.
Then we have the revolutionary
idealistic interpretations Of those
fond persons, usually now in middle
life, who ten or twenty years ago pic
tured themselves as one day standing
on the barricades fighting for Lib
erty, Equality and Fraternity" with
out realizing that this is but an ideal
istic version of the business slogan of
free mercantile pursuits. Or the more
timid section OF the same school, who
saw themselves voting in the new
day"
But the proletarian revolution Of
this time differs from all that have
preceded, in not few respects. 1t
is more than any other a conscious
revolution-a revolution the leading
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