The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-25
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BY EVA SHAFRAN.

BY EVA SHAFRAN.
TIE publication Of 1.-THE Revolution of 1905" is
~ and other falsifiers of the history of Bolshe-
yisr, exposed by Comrade Stain, would have us
believe that Leninism is not International; that
up until 1917, when Trotsky so-called ''re-armed"
Bolshevisn Lenin and Leninism did not think"
in terms Of Proletarian Revolution, but only of
bourgeois democratic revolution.
OF course, we will not attempt here to go into
an extensive discussion on all these points. For
such discussion see the January and February
Communist" Here we will only be able to give
some quotations from 1905" that will prove the
falsity of the accusations against Leninism,
hurled by the Trotskyites and the falsifers in
order to discredt Leninisnl, the theory and prac-
tice OF proletarian revolution,
''rhs Revelation Of 1909, collection of arti-
Giles, speeches Of Lenin in 1905-06, and lecture
delivered in 1917 tells the story of the oppression
Of the Russian masses under the bloody Car
and landed capitalists 1t tells of the methods
used in these struggles On the basis of their ex-
perences gained in 1905, lessons are being drawn
for the struggle of the masses for Socialist
revolution not only in Russia but the world over.
Lenin and the BosheyikS always saw the world
phenomena in the 1905 revolution Not in 1917,
Messrs. Falsifiers, but in 10000. The thought
Of turning the bourgeois-democratic revolution
in 1905 into Socialist revolution dominates the
whole pamphlet in direct and irrefutable contra
diction to the lies presented by the TrotSkyiteS
and other forgers of the history of BolsheVism
The peculiar feature of the Russian Revolt
ton is that in its social content it was Bour
seois Democratic Revolution, but in its methods
of struggle, It was Proletarian Revolution.
page 40).
Lenin further develops this point thus
a.. Under the conditions of revolutionary
democratic dictatorship, shall make the
Russian revolution the prologue TO the Euro
pean Socialist revolution. (page %, our en-
phasis)
What else than the growing over" Of the dem
ocratic revolution into Socialist revolution do
We zee from the above quotation But this thought
is developed still further in the following words:
'"rhe proletariat is now fighting to preserve
its democratic conquests for the sake of So
cialst Revolution The second victory will
be the Socialist Revolution IN Europe (page
81, our ernphasis)
And again:
The Russian also Proletarisn EevoIu-
ton. not only in The sense that the prolctariat
was the leading force, vanguard Of the move
mept, but also in the sense that the specifically
proletarian of struggle namely. The
strike, the principal instrument employed
for srousng the masses and tho most charac-
teri5tic phenomenon In the wave like rise of
the decisive events" (page 400
Not only did Lenin see this because of the
characteristics" OF the Russian revolution itself
but:
The eyes Of the proletariat of the whole
world now anxiously turned towards the
proletariat of Russia The European couA-
ter-rcvoution extends its hand to the Russian
counter revolution Just try Citizen Ucheu-
the Russian Revolution The International
Proletariat" page 29)
How prophetic we're these wordsl How new
and true they still are at the present when we
have In mind the Imminent attack on the Soviet
Union BY world Imperialism, and the reserve"
that the Soviet Onion has In the worlds toiling
masses. To muster this reserve" Of which Lenin
spoke In 1905, for the defense of the worlds
workers fstherland, the Soviet Union is our i'm
mediate duty.
whether or not Social-DcmocracY tthe Bolahe-
yiks) should participate in tho provisional rcVo-
lutionary government, VIC again have the same
question (hegemony of the proletariat, the grow
ing over" OF the bourgeois democratic revolution
into . Socialist one. etc.p under discussion
Around this rcvolved the entire problem Of
whether the MosetAriat should play an indie