The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-26

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surrection was organized and planned for the
whole territory under the control of the So
viets. .a,k ~ ,sa1..,
. On July 6, 1915, the signal for, this insur-
rection was given in Moscow. Two social revo-
lutionaries, 4Alexandrefsky and Blumkin, killed
the German plenipotentiary, Count Mierbach.
This was AN outright provocation endeavorng
to set the armies of mperialst Germany into
motion against the Soviets. Both Alexandrof-
sky, and Blumkin were members of the Cheka.
AS their part in the counter revolutionary plot
of the social, revoutionaries, they arrested
Dzershinsky, the head Of the Cheka, forged his
signature to asletter and by the aid OF this
letter gained admission to Mierbach's presence
and shot him. At the same time, armed de
tachnfents of the cleft social revolutionaries
took possession Of the post office and other
strategic points in Moscow. They started a
bombardment of the Kremlin and directed an
armed struggle against the Soviets throughout
the CITY,. A provisional as. R. Government"
sent out a call to arms against the bolsheviks
over the country. General uprisings every
where of the cleft" social revolutionaries fol-
lowed s $50.
The Red Army detachments in Moscow, how
ever, were bolshevk The Red Army on the
front also continued its revolutionary duty OF
fighting against Krasnoff, against Kolchak.
against the Czechoslovakian legions on the
Volga; against the American British invasions
in Murmansk, etc. 1t refused to join the coun-
ter revolution of the Social Revolutionarles.
The ounter-revolutionary insurrection was
therefore speedily defeated.
This insurrection Of the Social Revolution
aries was the signal for the Revolutionary
Workers Government to take drastic measures
against counter revolution. Despite the heart
rending attempts of James p. Cannon to con-
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petty bourgeois sob-sister and Stain as a
heart monster, we must emphasize that Lenin,
like Stain, was revolutionist and not SEN
timental petty bourgeois. Therefore the revo-
lutionary leadership of the Soviets under
Lenin dealt with the counter -revolutionaries OF
1918 as the revolutionary leadership OF the
Soviets under Stain with the counter-revolu-
tionaries in $780, Alexandrofsky was stood up
against a wall and shot, The "irreproachable
revoiutionist" Blumkin, however, escaped exc
cutior by the Soyiets under Lenin only through
flight.
A number Of years later Blumkin re-appeared
ostensibly recognizing the counter-revolution-
ary character of his action in July, 1918, and
on the basis Of this recognition seeking ad-
mission into the Bolshevik Party.
Unlike Cannon's, our unbounded confidence
is with the Russian Revolution and not with
Blumkin II this revolution adjudged Blumkin
guilty of treachery and shot him, we not only
enthusiastically share responsibility with the
leadership Of the Russian Revolution but we
even proclaim: More power to the Russian
Revolution SO that it can prepare like fate
to ali it's active enemies. Cannon's character
ization of Blumkin as an "irreproachable rev.
olutionist" only characterizes Cannon's own
degeneracy- According to Cannon's own state
ment, Blumkin who could be member OF the
Communist Party Of the Soviet Union only if
he pledged himself to fight against Trotsky-
ism, was an agent Of Trotsky. According to
Cannon's own statement, Blumkin who could
be member Of G.P.u. only by pledging him
self to protect the Soviets against its enemies,
acted as an agent of these enemies. These
qualities" Of Blumkn, inseparable from a
traitor and renegade, inspire Cannon to call
Blumkin an "irreproachable revolutionist." Our
opinion is that Blumkins political degeneracy
as pictured by Cannon, is only surpassed by
that Of James P. Cannon himself.
Cannon's Blumkin is another ghost cited by
the international capitalist counter-revoution
to testify against the Russian Revolution.
Blumkin is a fit companion Of General Koutie-
poff and Jesus Christ And James P. Cannon
is fit companion Of Macdonald, Tardieu, Pope
Plus and Hoover. These ghosts cited at this
moment by international capital are called
upon to substantiate new campaign against
the "red terror" But the revolutionary work.
ers Of the world are suffering so much from
white terror that these ghosts cannot inspire
them with horror What really inspires them
is that the Russian Revolution is still living,
in spite Of its enemies, that it is struggling,
still building, still marching on and laughing
at its capitalist Cannens, IT need be, ready to
march on, over their dead bodies, to final vic