The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21

NOTE: The excerpts printed below are
taken from Lenin's famous brochure, "What
is to be done?" aUhich is included in Volume
" of the Collective Works of Y. !. Lerain,
Just published by the International Publish
ers, 381 Fourth Avenue, Ne1O York. This COL
anne. published in ta0o parts, includes all the
aOritings of Leni1t bet,Ueen 1900 and 1902
and covers the formative period of the Rus
sian BolSheuik Party.
The ideal audience for these political ex-
posures is the working class, which is first
and foremost in need of universal and live
political knowledge, which is most capable of
converting this knowledge into active struggle,
even if it did not promise "palpable results"
The only platform from which public exposures
can be made is an All-Russian newspaper.
"Unless we have a political organ, move
ment deserving the name of political is incon-
ceivable in modern Europe" In this connection
Russia must undoubtedly be included in mod
Europe. The press has long ago become a
power in our country, otherwise the govern
ment would not spend tens of thousands of
rubles to bride it, and to substitute the Kat
kovs and Meshcherskys. And it is no novelty
in autocratic Russia for the underground press
to break through the wall of censorship and
compel the legal and conservative press to
speak openly of it. This was the case in the
seventies and even in the fifties. How much
broader and deeper are now the strata of the
people willing to read the illegal underground
press, and to learn from it chow to live and
how to die" to the expression of the
worker who sent a letter to "Iskra" (No. y.
Political exposures are as much a declaration
of war against the government as economic
exposures declaration of war against the
nd he xpido nd f,,l
this campaign of exposure will be, the more
numerous and determined the social class
which has declared war in order to commence
the war will be, the greater will be the moral
significance of this declaration of war. Hence,
political exposures in themselves serve as a
powerful instrument for disntegrating the
system we oppose, the means for diverting
from the enemy his casual or temporary allies,
the means of spreading enmty and distrust
among those who permanently share power
with the autocracy.
Only party that will organize real all
national exposures can become the vanguard
of the revolutionary forces in our time. The
word all-national has very profound meaning.
The overwhelming majority of the non-work-
ing class land in order to become the van
guard, we must attract other classes) are
sober politicians and cool business men. They
know perfectly we'll how dangerous it is to
complain" even against minor official, let
alone against the "omnpotent" Russian gov
eminent. And they will come to US with their
complaints only when they see that these COM
plants really have effect, and when they see
that we represent political force. In order
to become this political force in the eyes of
outsiders, much persistent and stubborn work
is required to increase our own consciousness,
initiative and energy. For this, it is not suf-
fcient to stick the label vanguard" on "rear-
guard" theory and practice.
But if we have to undertake the organza-
ton of the real all-national exposure of the
government then in what way will the class
character of our movement be exposed ?-the