The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-20

HESITATE A SINGLE SECOND to
come to the SAME KIND Of an
agreement with the German i'm
perialist robbers, should an attack
upon Russia by Anglo-French troops
demand it. And / know perfectly
well that my tactics will meet with
the approval of the class-conSciOus
proIetariat Of Russia, Germany,
France, England, America-in a word,
Of the whole civilized world. Such
tactics will tighten the task Of the
Socialist revolution, will hasten its
advance, will weaken the interna-
tional bOurgeoisle, will strengthen the
position Of the working class which
is cOnquering it.
The American people used these
tactics long ago, to the advantage OF
its revolution. When America waged
its great war Of liberation against
the English oppressors, it was con-
fronted with the French and the
Spanish oppressorS, who owned a
portion Of what is now the United
States OF North America. In its
difficult war for freedom the Ameri-
can people too, made agreements
with one group Of oppressors against
the other for the purpose Of weaken
ing oppresSors and strengthening
those who were struggling in a revo-
lutionary manner against oppression
in the interest Of the oppressed
masses. The American people uti-
lied the differences that existed be-
tween the French, the Spanish, and
the English, at times even fighting
side by side with the armies Of the
French and Spanish oppressors
against the English oppressors. First
it vanquished the English and then
freed itself (partly by purchase)
from the French and the Spanish.
The great Russian revolutionist,
Chernyshevsky once said: "Histori-
cal action is not the pavement OF
Nevsky Prospect" He is no reVolu-
zionist who would permit" the pro-
letarian revolution only under the
Condition" that 1t proceed easily,
smoothly, with the co-ordinated and
simultaneous action Of the proletar-
fans Of different countries and with
guarantee beforehand against de-
feat; that the revolution go forward
along the broad, free, direct path to
victory, without the necessity, some
times, of making the greatest sacri-
fees, Of Lying in wait in beSieged
fortresses," or OF climbing along the
narrowest, most impossible, winding,
dangerous mountain roadside has
not yet freed himself from the
pedantry Of bourgeois intellectuslism,
he will fall back again and again
into the camp OF the counter -revolu-
tionary bourgeois!e, like our Right
Socialist Revolutionaries, Mensheviks
and even (aithough more seldom the
Left Socialist -RevolutionarieG.
Along with the bourgeoisie, these
gentlemen like to blame us for the
"chaos" Of revolution, the "destruc-
ton of industry, the unemployment,
the lack OF food. What hypocrisy
these accusations are, from people
who greeted and supported the I'M
penalist war or came to an agree
ment" with Kerensky, who continued
this warl It is that very imperialist
war, which is the cause Of all these
misfortunes. The revolution that was
born Of the war must necessarily 60
through the terrible difficulties and
sufferings left as the heritage Of the
prolonged, destructive, reactionary
slaughter OF the peoples. To accuse
LIS Of destruction" Of industries, or
Of terror" is either hypocrisy or
clumsy pedantry: it Is an inability
to understand the basic conditions of
the raging class struggle, intensified
to the utmost, which is called revo-
luton.
Generally speaking, such "accusers'
limit themselves to a verbal recog-