The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-16

I
aUere 1Oritten on the same day as
the letter to KoIIontai referring
to them, published elsewhere IN
this issue. The Octobrists referred
to IN the second paragraph of the
theses qoere the party of the re-
dictionary big bourgeoisie, aUhich
aUas organized after the 1905 reU-
otution. The Cadets (Constitu-
tio,,al Democrats Were the party
of the liberal bourgeoisie.
The defensists, mentioned at
the beginning of the last para
graph of the theses, aoere those
aOho claimed they aOere opposed to
the imperialist war, but Uho
favored the defense of the
"fatherland."
These theses were first pub
lished IN the Leni1t Collection,
Vol. II, 1924.-A. G. r.
News from Russia reaching us il
Zurich at this writing, March II
1917, is so scanty, and events in gu
country are developing so rapidly
that one must be extremely cautious
in forming a judgment as to tn,
present state of affairs.
Yesterdays kilograms presented
the situation as if the Tsar hat
already abdicated and a govern
ment of Cadets and Octobrists hat
already concluded an agreement
with other representatives of the
Romanov dynasty. Today's papers
published reports from England tt
the effect that the Tsar has not YET
abdicated, and that his whereabouts
are unknown! 1t means, then, thai
the Tsar is trying to offer resist
ance, to organize a party and per
haps an army to restore the mon
archy; it is even possible that, il
order to deceive the people, the
Tsar, if he should succeed in max
ing his escape from Russia or il
gaining the support of portion o.
the army, will issue manifesto
announcing an immediate, separate
peace signed by him with Germany
Under these circumstances the
task of the proletariat is rather
complicated. 1t is perfectly obviou:
that the proletariat must organize
more thoroughly, must muster al
it's forces, arm itself and strengthen
and develop it's alliance with all thu
layers of the laboring masses in city
and country, in order to offer merci
less resistance to Tsarist reaction
and to crush completely the Tsaris
monarchy.
On tho other hand, the new gov
eminent that has seized power il
Petrograd, or, rather, has snatche'
it from the hands of the proletaria
after the latter had won victor,
in bloody battles, consists of the lib
eral bourgeoisie and landowners
who have harnessed Kerensky, tina
representative of the democrati
peasantry and, perhaps, of a sec
ton of workers who have forgotte
their internationalism and hav
been lured into following the boul
geoisie. The new government cor
sists of avowed supporters and de
tenders of the imperialist war wit
Germany, the war now waged j
league with the imperialist govern
ment of England and France for tn
sake of robbing and subjugatin
foreign lands = Armenia, Galici,
Constantinople, etc.
The new government can give t
the peoples of Russia (or to thos
nations to which we are bound b
war; neither peace, nor bread, no
complete freedom, and for that req
son the working class must continu
its struggle for Socialism and 70
peace, must utilize the new situa
ton for that purpose and explai
it to the large masses of the pee
pie.
The new government cannot brin
peace, because it represents the cap
italists and the landowners; and be
cause it is bound by treaties and fl
nancial obligations to the capitalist
of England and France. Russi
cial-Democracy, to remain trul
internationalist, must Immediately
and before everything else, explain
to the masses anxious for peace tn
impossibility of obtaining it Will