The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-18

Ax4seAe s.
RaaAs n the SixAh of = series OF articles
4 SsSsanssed by me soeiaA and Economic Depart
sresst Of the Red International Of Labor I'm
Eszsa wssich give m clear outline, the forecast
uf wsNat war win bring, the conditions that will
1 sazsne and the historic developments that will
I nsask me Transformation of the capitalist war
na4e esTA war, developments in which evesy
vsorher will find 1t necessary to act as an agent
81 that transformation. Let all understand,
tAeu that the Developments which are today
. Hut forecasts, VIII tomorrow be grim realities
which most he faced Answer the war
makers Nov. 21.-Edttor,
AE COURSE it would be a serious error and
til4sssx to imagine that all the oontradic-
bnnas mentioned previously are going to develop
rsuscnSasasaAy.
without the conscious direction and effort of
q revolutionary vanguard, Vell-knit organization
ally and prepared to stop at nothing, though 1t
be small numerically but clearly realizing its
ainas as we'll as the significance and the methods
of the struggle, the development Of these con-
tradictions will only result in isolated outburstS
of desperation The spontaneous movement of
the workers will grow in scale, will become more
and more intensified. but will not suffice by
long way to break down the capitalist machine
(uaaose operation will be especially concentrated
during war; or to smash the mailed fist OF the
military dictatorship.
Leniu on War.
This question was raised very clearly and def
nitely by Lenin in his Notes on the Tasks of
our Delegation in the Hague in 1922. He wrote
that in the struggle against the war danger
the hardest thing TO overcome is the general
opinion that this question is simple, clear and
comparatively easy" He demonstrated that the
seeming radicalism of reforr1iSt assertions, that
I'VE shall reply to war with a strike and revo-
luton made to reassure the workers, was either
"foolishness or a lie" He urged that "the peo-
pie be explained the real circumstances in which
war was born and how they were kept secret
and how helpless was the ordinary labor organ
isation, even though it called itself revolution
airy organization, when faced with the onset of
war. :" Indeed, he definitely said that ode
Tense Of the Motherland would become an in
evibable question, which would be decided by the
great ma jority of the workers in favor of their
own bourgeosie and therefore we would have
to elucidate what mass of theoretical and
bread-and- butter questions would become appar-
ent Immediately after the declaration of war
which would make it impossible for the great
bulk of those called up to understand them in
any clear way or to consider them in any frank
ly unprejudiced light" Lenin considers that the
first thing that must be done to explain that
the only way to fight war is to form and main
tain illegal organization Of all revolutionaries
engaged in the war to conduct protracted anti
war activities" The words "of all revolution
aries engaged in the war" are by no means &C
cidental. In order to fight war in any effec-
tive way the revolutionaries must take part in
it. We saw that in the war of the future it will
be impossible to keep out of it, to avoid it.
Every revolutionary must take up his place right
down among the trops, in the center Of war
operations. For Boycott War" is nonsensicaI
phrase. The Communists must take part in
every reacUonary war! s&a fs@iSssk