The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-06-26

THE BoLsHEWsT REVOLUTION.

READY In August started movement to seize
etersburg and establish military dictatorship.
he capitalists shut down their factories in order
punish the workers 'swith the bony fist of hun
er." The food crisis became alarming The
easants and the army unit revolted Kerensky
rganized constantly new governments, but they
ad no authority. He uses force against the
easants who attempt to carry out their program
gainst the nobility The Bolsheviks can again
| ppear as legal party and are gaining ground
/ a the soviets and in the army Lenin sends let
| ers from Finland urging immediate preparations
Oh taking over power. In October, he comes
| ed city to Petrograd in order to push forward
he preparations. He writes letters articles and
'amphlets. In one Of them: 'E,Will the Bolsheyiks
daintain Power? he answers the arguments
made by the opponents. As some of the papers
made the statement that the Bolsheviks do not
Iare to take power alone-they are only blufing
Ienin refers to his statement in the first Soviet
congress during the summer, that party which
would not take power when it had an opportunity
would be political zero, and would have no rea-
son for existence. To the arguments that the So
iets if they take power, could not keep the state
machinery going, -Lenin answers that it might
De probable, if they tried to run the bourgeois
state machinery. But if they establish new,
soviet apparatus of power, they certainly
run it. The Soviet power will be the only solu-
ton of the problems the country is confronted
with
A fortnight before the October revolution,
Lenin writes an article: 'aThe Crisis Is Ripe" in
which he says that the decisive moment of the
Russian and the world revolution has come.
There are signs of disturbance in the warning ma
tions. And as the .Bosbeviks have the advantage
Of an 'unusualaamount of liberty--they have mass
papers, they have the majority of the soviets in
the big Cities they have the support of the major
ty of the army-they must remember that ''To
whom much is given of him much is demanded"
There is a situation in the country that gov
fern tent, which enjoys the support of the Men
she ks and the Observation-Disclosures, faces
peasants revolts and suppresses them. The gov
Sernment has betrayed the democracy and appears
more and more imperialistic. Even the organ of
the Observation-Disclosures has to admit that the old
bureaucracy rules in the country. The peasants
upheavals, the votes taken in the army units, the
new elections to the soviets, the controversy be-
tween the government and the civil service-all
this shows that the situation is ripe The future
of the Russian revolution is at stake The future
of the international revolution is at stake
But the central committee of the party was
not convinced of the necessity of taking over
power. Some members were doubtful They
were afraid that the party would isolate itself
from the other socialist parties and did not have
1? broad enough basis. Comrade Zinoviev charac-
lteI zed his mistake WE'LL when at the opening of
TIN Fourth World Congress of the Communist
international he explained that he had still re-
garded the Mensheviks as the right wing of the
proletariat when they were already the left wing
of the bourgeoisie. Comrade Trotsky has in his
famous article about the German October limited
that Lenin had shown some impotence in de-
handing the taking over of power before the
Second Soviet Congress. 1t is true that Lenin
regarded the situation as very critical, and he
was afraid that the party would be Late The
Observation-Disclosures were preparing and
might take the initiative He considered it as suf-
fcient that the Bolsheviks had the support of
the soviets in the strategic centers and the SYM
pathies of the soldier and peasant masses. The
action was delayed by circumstances, so that it
occurred the same day as the soviet congress met
and sanctioned il