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


out to the revolutionary forces. Recall the latest
events: under the broad masses of city work
ers and urban plain people, surging to battle but
among the revolutonsts there is no staff of leaders
and organizers. Under such conditions does not the
entering of the energetic revoutioniss into ter
ror threaten to weaken those fighting upon which
alone one place serious hopes Does not this threat
en- TO break the contact between the revolutionary or
ganization and those disuned masses who are dscon
tented protesting and ready for struggle and which are
weak precisely because of their dsunion? And vet in
ts contact lies the only guarantee of success We
are lar from the thot of denying every Significance of
individual heroic strokes but it is our duty to warn
with all energy against preoccupation with terror
against its being acknowledged as the main and basic
means OF struggle to which very, very many are SO
strongly inclined at present. Terror never become
an everyday military action best it is suitable only
as one of the methods of decisive STORM The
question arises: at the given n6nient esH TO-
such storm attack? "Rabocheye f)ea6z apparently
thinks yes AT least it exclaims Form into sorming
columns But this again shows zeal contrary to rea
m The chief mass of our military forces is in the
volunteers and nsurrectionists As a standing army
we have only several small detachments and even
tnese are not modified, not connected with other
not trained to form themselves into military columns
generally much less into storming columns Under
such conditions for any one who is capable of review
ing the general conditions struggle without for
getting about them at every turn Of the historical
march OF events-it must be clear that our slogan AT
the present moment cannot be march to the storm.
attack but must be Arrange the systematic siege
ASK OF our party cannot be the calling of all available
forces right at the present moment to an attack but
must be the call for the working out of revolutionary
organization capable Of uniting all forces and of guild
ing the movement not only in but in reality that
u.s. to be always ready for support every protest
and of every areup using them for the multiplication
and strengthening of military forces suitable for the
decisive battle.
The lesson Of the February apd March events is so
imposing that hardly encounter at any,
objections principle against such deduction But
what is demanded of at the present time is not the
solution of the question principle its practical
solution. The need is not only to clarity for oneself
precisely what organization is necessary and exactly
what kind of work,-the need is to work a certain
plan for organization in order that may be possible
to proceed from all directions construct it, In view
of the unpostponable Importance of the question We on
our part decide to propose for the attention of the
comrades sketch of plan which is being developed
by more in detail in pamphlet now in course of
{ preparation for publication i,s e~t
According to our opinion the starting point of acty
y, the first practical step toward the creation of the
desired the basic thread in follow
ing which would be able to develop to deepen and
to broaden this organzaton-must be the establish
ment Of an allRussan political newspaper. We need
first Of all misrepresentation this it is impossible
to conduct systematically that manysded propaganda
and agitation, answering in principle which const
tutes the and chief task of the sociademoc
racy generally and the especially task Of the
present moment when the interest in politics. in the
questions Of socialism, is awakened in the broadcast
strata of the population And as never before with
such force feels that the fragmentary agitation by
means of personal influence by Of local leaflets
pamphlets, etc. must be completed by that generalzed
and regular agitation which it is possible to conduct
only with the aid Of the periodical press It will hardly
be an exaggeraon to that the degree frequency
and Of the regularity Of issue (and circulation of the
newspaper may most accurate measure as to
how sodly have established this primitive and
most essential branch Of activity Further it is
precisely an AllRussan paper that need. II we
are not able, and as long not able, to unity
our effects upon the people and upon the government
by means Of the printed word-the thot of unifying
other, more complicated and difficult but nevertheless
more decisive, means of pressure will be utopian Our
movement in the theological well the practical
organizaonal respect is suffering above all from its
fragmentary character from the fact that the over
whemng majority of the sociademocrats are absorbed
almost completely in purely local work which narrnus