The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-05
ey MoIssAYE J. oLeIN

II the Russian Revolution has been
victorious it is due to the leadership
Of the Russian Communist Party. If
the Russian Communist Party was
capable of leading the revolutionary
working masses to a lasting victory,
it is due to the application of THE
PRINCIPLES OF BOLSHEvISM as
expounded and put into practice by
Lenin.
Party Of the Masses
The Russian Communist Party has
always been party Of the working
masses. Whether its number was
small or large, whether the temper of
the masses was quiet or stormy,
whether the work Of propaganda and
organization was easy or hard, whe-
Their prosecutions were severe or
sIack-the Russian Communist Party
always strove to be with the masses,
within the masses, to organize its
nuclei in the shops among the rank
and file workers, to participate thru
them and thru its leading bodies in
the everyday struggles OF the working
masses, to formulate the demands of
the workers and to give direction to
their revolutionary struggle.
Revolutionary Spirit
The Russian Communist Party has
always had an abiding faith In the
revolutionary spirit of the working
masses. At a time when the "econ-
omists" of 1S9S-19O1, the forerunners
of Menshevism, preached riveting of
the workers attention to economic de-
mands only. leaving political struggle
to the enlightened" intelligentzia
and the bourgeoisie, Lenin for the
first time formulated the conception
Of PROLETARIAN HEGEMONY, /. e.,
leadership Of the working class in all
forms Of struggle up to the final lib
GRAFTON. At time when the Menshe-
Wiki (1905-6) preached collaboration
with the Russian bourgeoisie in the
struggle against czarist autocracy, the
Russian Communist Party, then called
Bolsheviki, appealed to the workers
to wage a relentless war BOTH
against czarism and the bourgeoisie
who only used the menace Of q work
ers' revolution to force czarism to
make concessions to the propertied
classes. At q time when, after the
defeat Of the first revolution in 1906,
the Menshevik preached acquies.
eence, abolition of the secret revolu-
tionary organization and adaptation to
everyday reform work under q semi
autocratic regime, the Russian Com
munist Party was busily engaged in
reOrganizing its ranks, improving its
Illegal apparatus. spreading its infiu-
ence among the masses, preparing
them for revolutionary action. At
time when. after March 1917, the
socialists Of all brands together with
the bourgeoisie declared that the rev
oiution had run its course and that
nothing remained for the working
masses but to accept the order of
the bourgeois democracy as final, the
Russian Communist Party formulated
the slogan, ~All Power to the Soviets"
leading the working masses into real
battles for the power Of state. At a
time when, in the fierce years of 1918
1921, the socialists, turned counter
revolutionary, hopefully anticipated
the collapse Of the Soviet system in
consequence Of mass exhaustion, hun
ger, starvation, the Russian Commun-
ist Party KNEW that the revolution
airy ardor Of the masses is inexhaust-
ible, that the persistence of the work
ers In their struggle for a better fut-
ure knows no limits. The Russian
Communist Party built on that rock
of revolutionary potency and the
building proved lasting.
Party Of Action
The Russian Communist Party has
always been party Of action. 1t
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