The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-20
Supplement.

lished in the German edition of the
"Inprecorr" l read the article of
Comrade R. L. Worrall (London) in
No. 26. of the English edition en-
titled "The Significance of the May
Day Events in Berlin" The con-
tents of this article have caused me
to write these supplementary words
to my own article. A person not
sufficiently acquainted with German
conditions might assume from Com
rade Worrall's article that such
revolutionary situation already exists
in Germany that all that is neces-
sary is a certain pressure of the
British and American workers upon
their respective governments in or
der to produce a situation in which
a successful armed instruction of
the proletariat might be carried out
in Germany. In order to support his
contentious, Comrade Worrall des-
cribes the difficulties of the German
bourgeoisie which make for the
speedy development of an acute rev.
olutionary situation, and gives a
quotation" from Lenin, to document
his argument.
By the way it must be pointed out
that in none of its documents has
the German Party spoken of any
so immediate acute revolutionary
situation. On the contrary, the Ger
, man Party has pointed out again
and again that there is no situation
at present for an armed insurrection
and that the characteristic signs of
such a situation are missing. What
| the German Party does say is that
there is tendency making for the
speedy arrival of a revolutionary
situation, and this is correct.
And now with regard to the Lenin
Quotation" Comrade Worrall
"quotes" the famous passage from
Lenin concerning the acute revolu-
tionary situation and uses shoe
horn to force the present situation
in Germany into the limits of this
quotation. Unfortunately Comrade
Worrall does not quote Lenin, he
censors him, for he presents Lenin's
opinion concerning the acute revolu-
tionary situation as follows:
1. 'The impossiblity of the
ruling classes to preserve their
domination without a change of
form political crisis of the
ruling class.
2. "The more than usual in
crease of the needs and misery
of the exploited classes.
8. "The marked growth of the
activity of the masses -. indie
pendent action"
What Lenin actually does write
in his cleft Wing Communism" is
to be read in Chapter on cleft
Wing Communism in England" as
follows:
"The fundamental law of rev.
olution, confirmed in practice by
all revolutions and in particular
by the three Russian revolutions
of the twentieth century, consists
in the following: for revolution it
is not sufficient that the exploited
and enslaved masses realize the
impossibility of living on in the
old fashion and demand change;
for revolution it is necessary that
the exploiters are unable to live
and rule in the old fashion. Only
when the 'Understrata' are unwil-
ling to continue living in the old
fashion, and the 'Upperstrata' are
unable. to continue living in the
old fashion, can the revolution be
victorious. The truth can be also
expressed as follows: revolution is
impossible without general ma
tional crisis Ga crisis affecting
both the exploiters and the ex-
plotted.
I'm consequence the revolution
requires, first of all, that the
majority of the workers Cor in any
! case the majority of the conscious,