The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-17

10 ask these questions Is eQuiVa~
lent to asking the question as to
whether the requisites for . rev.
dictionary situation. existed in Janu~
airy, 1888. AS is known, Conrade
Lenin characterized a revolutionary
In the following manner:
''For revolution 1t is mot enough
that the exploited and enslaved
masses realize the impessibility Of
continuing TO live In the old way
and demand a change; for revo-
lution it is also necessary that the
exploiter should no longer be able
to live and govern In the old way
The revolution can only be vicp
torious when the MASSES OF THE
EXPLOITED AND OPPRESSED
PEOPLE no LONGER tolerate the old
order and Che GOVERNING
GLASSES ARE NO LONGER
ABLE TO GOVERN IN THE OLD
WAY. In other words, this truth
can be expressed as follows: The
revolution is impossible without o.
crisis for the entire nation (includ-
ing the exploited and the exploit
ersl. Consequently first, it Is nccess
say that the majority of the work.
ers Tin any case, the majority %
the class-conscious, thinking, polits
ically active workers. completely
understand the necessity of the rev.
clutionary Transformation and is
prepared to die for it; secondly, that
the rulfnF classes go through gov
errmentaI crisis which draws even
the most backward masses into
politics 1.-THE distinguishing feature
of every real revolution is the very
rapid multiplication Of representa-
tives of the telling. and exploited
masses capable of political struggle
who were Hitherto apathetic) the
government becomes weakened and
it becomes possible for the reyolu-
tionaries to rapidly overthrow this
government" Henin: Collected
Works, Volume rs, pages 2z2-273.) .
Was there such situation in Jans
uary, 1888? No! In its recent docu-
ment on "The Present Situation in
Germany the P,'esidium Of the Conn
munist International analysed this
question in detail: u Sc, 40,
"Un6er these circumstances"
states the resolution of the Pre-
sidium, 'the proletariat found itseI
in situation where it was NOT in a
position, really not in a position, TO
Numerically deal a decisive blow
against the state apparatus which
had consolidated the fighting or
CARNATIONS of the fascist bour-
geoisie, the National Socialist
Storm Detschments, the tstalheim'
and the Reichgwehr for the fight
against the p-oletariat. The bour-
geofsie was able to place the gov
ernntent power in the hands Of the
National Socialists without serious
resistance and the latter proceeded
aqainst the working class with all
the means of proyocation, bloody
terror and political banditism.
'qThe characteristic REGULARITY Of
the 81 uation at the time of Hitler's
coup d'etat consisted in the fact
that these conditions for q victori-
Gus uprising had not yet natured
at that time, that they only existed
in an embryonic form.
To threw the vanguard alone
into the decisive, ,struggle-says
Lenin-as lone as the entire class,
rs lons as the wide masses do mot
directly support the advance guard,
or at least show kindly disposed
neutrality towards it, would not
only be stupiditsc but a crime
(Len'r: Collected Works, Ibid
Pare 28D. ee
"These are the. circumstances
that conditioned the retreat Of the
working clsss and the victory Of
the party of the counter-revolu-
tiNrery fasc.sts in Germany.
'"rke establishment of the fascist
dictatorehin in Germany is, there.
fore, in the fi--eI analysis. the re-
srlt CT the sociai-democr-tic policy
Of co-cperi ton with the bour-
geo'eie during the entire existence
fthe Weimar Republic"
Ito Be Continued