The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-19

Lenin arrived on April 8, and on the next day
he presented his thesis, which contained the fol
lowing: the war will be revolutionary only when
the power is in the hands of theNworkers and peas
ants. The provisional government is imperial
list You cannot support its war Our slogan
must be: All power to the Soviets! Soviet
Republic Police, army and bureaucracy must
be abolished The land must be put at the dis
posal of the soviets. Workers control in the
industry food provision, naturalization of the
banks under the control of the soviets. A new
party program and new International
Lenin .criticizes the attitude taken by the COM
rades, who made concessions to the revolution
airy defense" When Kamenev argues that the
Bolsheviks had always had the slogan: Workers
and peasants democratic dictatorship, and asks:
Will the slogan of Socialist Revolution not be
premature? Lenin answers that the essence of
Marxism is that must act on the basis of
actual conditions, not our previous estimations
The estimatiOns of the BOlsheviks have proved
correct in general. But there are always unex-
pected things in details The democratic dicta-
torshp Of the workers and peasants has been real
ized although in an unforeseen form This die
tatorshp, the soviets, tolerates beside ITSELF the
dictatorship of the bourgeoisie in the form of
the provisional government. This dual power
cannot last long. And Lenin explains, we will
not demand the immediate realization of social
ism. The power to the soviets and the social
revolution is slogan to be presented to the
soviets and must be accepted by majority
The waves of the popular movement rise high
When the foreign minister, Miliukov, sends note
to the allied governments with an assurance of
war ito the end" he is compelled to resign The
popular movement toward peace comes to express
sion in many mass demonstrations. But there is
a very strong sentiment against the Bolsheviks
who have very small minority in the soviets
But Lenin and the comrades work persstently
Comrade ZinOviev tells how they were met by of
ticers in the Semenoy armory, when they went to
make speeches there 1t was apparent that the of
fcers were ready to kill them. And the sentiment
of the soldiers was against Lenin when he started
to speak. But after time he had gained their
confidence. In the early summer the problem
arose, OF how to prevent a premature upheaval
The masses in Petersburg, and especially in
Kronstadt, were very much excited and ready to
start things As the situation in the army and in
the provinces was not ripe, the Bosheviks opposed
the fight for, power. But the masses went ont.
and the Bolsheviks had to go with them in order
to prevent calamity. They succeeded in draw
ing the masses back as it was becoming clear to
them that they would be defeated.
At the same time, the front offensive of Kren
sky collapsed. Many leading Bolsheviks were
now arrested. Lenin and Zinoviev we're ready to
yield to court hearings but when it became clear
that they would be murdered by the counterrevo
lutionaries the central committee decided that
they should hide. They worked in a shack of
brush-wood in the forest close to the Finnish Dor
der. They were furnished with the daily papers
and wrote articles and letters. Later on, Lenin
moved to Finland, where he wrote 'orhe State and
Revolution" In brochure in July, 'The Les
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