The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-09
BY LENIN r

alItussian newspaper. Finally we need without fail
political newspaper Without political organ a
movement deserving the of a political movement
Is unthinkable in modern Europe task-to concen-
rate all elements of political discomfort and protest
and with these to fertlze the revolutionary movement
OF the proletarat,s absolutely unrealzable without
political organ. We made the first stem we awakened
in the working class the passion economic" factory
exposures We must make the next step to awaken
IN all strata of the people that are conscious in some
uegree the passion for political exposures One must
not be perturbed because the voices of political ex
posure are so weak few and tmid at the present
time The reason for this is at all an overwnelmine
reconciliation with police desposm. The reason is
that people who capable and ready to expose do not
have tribune from which they could speak--there is
no audience passonately listening and encouraging the
oratorsthat they see nowhere among the people any
force such it would be the pains to turn to
with. the complaint against the "omnpotent" Russian
government And now all this is changing with ire
mendons fapfdfy Such force is in existence; it is
the revolutionary proetariat it has already proved its
readiness not only to listen to support call to
political struggle, but also throw itself courageouslv
into the struggle. We in position to create
and we are in duty bound to create, tribune for ma
tonw1de exposure of the czarist government:-the
socaldemocratic newspaper must be snch a tribune
The Russian working class. in distinction from other
classes ana strata OF Russian society manfess con-
slant interest in political knowledge it presents coy
stahy tand not only during the periods especial ex
cltement) tremendous demand for illegal literature
In face OF such mass demand, with the development of
experienced revolutionary leaders already begun-ith
aJ state OF concentration of the working
makes 1t the actual master in the working class quar-
ters of big city, in factory settlement and mill town
the establishment of political newspaper is an affair
entirely within the strength Of the proIetarat And
thru the proetariat the newspaper will penetrate into
the ranks of the city petty bourgeoisie the village
artizans and peasants, and will real peoples
political newspaper.
The role of the newspaper is not limited however
to the mere spreading of IDEAS to political education
alone and to the attraction of political allies The news
paper not only collective propaganda and collect
i've agifator but also collective organizer ~ hi this
last respect it can be compared to the tbers erected
around building in the course of construction which
outline the contour of the building facilitate com
munication between the individual builders assist them
in the distribution of labor supervision of the
general results attained by the organized work With
the help of the newspaper and in connection with It.
VIII crystalline of itself permanent organization occn
pied not only with local but with the regular general
work, training its members attentvey to follow Do
htcal events to eyauate their significance and their in
nuenee upon the various strata of the population,
work out expedient ways of action upon these events
on the part of the revolutionary party The technical
task alone-to secure the regular furnishing of the
newspaper with material and regular distribution
compes the creation of net of local agents of single
party, of agents who in lively communication with
each other, who know the general situation who ac-
custom themselves to fulfill regularly the fragmentary
functions of aRussan work. testing forces in the
organization of these other Revolutionary actions
This net of agents will be the skeleton of just such an
organization need: sufficiently large to embrace
the entire country sufficiently broad and many-sided
to carry out strict and detailed division of labor suf
fcienty tested to be able conduct own work un-
hnchingly under all circumstances in all turns and
emergencies; sufficiently plant to be able on the one
hand 70 eyde battle in the open field with an enemy of
overwhelming force at time. when the enemys
strength concentrated and the other hand able to
axe advantage of the cumberusness of this enemy and
attack him at the time and place where the attack
is least Of all expected Today faced with
comparatively task of fha Sinh
who are demonstrating the the large cities
Tomorrow we shall be faced perhaps with more DIM
cult task for instance to support the movement of the
unemployed in certain region. The day after tomor-
row must be at post take revolutionary part
in peasant rebellion Today must take advantage
Of that sharpening of the political situation which the
government created by its offensive against the
Zemstvo. Tomorrow must support the indignation
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