The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 19, 1924, Page 7

“The idea becomes power when it pene- trates the masses.—. Karl Marx. Special Magazine Supplement THE DAILY WORKER, : LENIN Memorial Editon LENIN, THE SOUL OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION By MAX BEDACHT. ENIN is dead. Words so simple, and yet so inti, a, Slowly we learn to grasp the full significance of the news. The heart of the greatest man of his time no longer beats. The Letter Written by Lenin working class has lost its greatest thinker and ablest teacher. The fh partes proletarian world revolution is rob- Lialloibeie. bed of its outstanding leader. Var W ; Lenin the revolutionist was a true vs $: tel aro son of Russia. Yet he was an inter- nationalist. He assimilated all the experiences that the fertile soil of the native class-struggle in Russia pro- vided. And thru these experiences he helped to open the eyes of the workers of the world as to the real character of the struggle they are oe fetta’ ak table He led his ony safely wend = Scylla of all kinds of tem liances into a position of eden aetakip over the working masses of Russia. He steered the ship of the revolution- ary prewueit without loss thru the fen anes: 2 beat Leen tie a Peng tex Se gpimom oncame Ll, Regt # ae ps! bape a mee eed revolution finally 8 pawn Byer banner of sen He. of the working class over the vast empire of old Russia, now the United Soviet Socialist Republics. Lenin’s tactical skill treated histo- ry to the phenomenon of two revolu- thous in one: The long delayed last battle of the universal bourgeois re- in i amet want oe u roletarian ‘ae revolution. And ee Hi gre the Glib, SL pre. master statesman of ‘this fastest ‘A tae con on of development of human Ef, fb iewtint ae soci . J Lenin's Childhood. conse 9 ld (74am nf Lenin’s cradle stood in Simbirsk pe ee Ay foe Cen roegte on the Volga. He was born just about| * s. the time when Bismarck built, with PPP ie blood and —_ the foundation for the ool upward fli rman capitalism, howe eee er phate on April 19, 1870. His father was ‘©, vie Gta, D tok Cun vn orth ‘ave the first opening wedge into the seemingly impregnable line of defense of world capitalism. Thus he unquestionably hastened the end of the world war. Marx Fights Utopianism. At a time when the inconsistencies was hanged in the|of capitalism formed the basis of courtyard $end Schluesselburg/ endless speculations, when utopian Bastille, by order of the Czar, for| aims and conspiratory plans of action revolutionary activity. Deeply — exhausted the ph: _and mental pressed = he ng by this ter- strata arx ap- . scene, awakened the Vladimir Ilyich to ae his life; masses from the enervating dreams work to the movement of the ex-|of utopian speculations and destroyed ploited’ and downtrodden for their| the futile hopes for the success~ of liberation, He un- a teacher wh terests in among his children. There wget in his childhood Lenin developed and showed already the intellectual honesty which character- ized the great leader. spectacle of sla’ Capitalism did not stand still. It ; Dushed on “a on in the direction of perialism. The middle classes and capitalism, the state power, and that! the petty bourgeosie found themselves German peace *| die than accept this pressed harder and harder. They learned to hate and fear — capitalist groups. So they, too, in- in bitter criticism of certain manifestations of capitalism. This caused a great influx of the petty bourgeois elements into the revolu- tionary workers’ movement. This in- flux made itself felt more and more. The apparent rapid of strength of the Second International became ita weakness, for it_ meant the submerging of tle revolutionary labor movement in the quagmire of _— bourgeois indecisiog and vacila- hile Combats Menshivism. revolutionary phrases, As early as ‘1903 he eee with the Russian Schei- demanns to sst up that party which under his | ip fought out the proletarian class struggle in Russia to its logical Sr ange we by establish- a pare for. the coming revolutionary pestered Thus the thinker Lenin ition on the official PSocialtens™ rn Of the Second Inter- national not less ye not less important aie the one performed by Karl Marx on utopian Socialism more than a half century ago. The indomitable revolutionary spirit of the great leader never shone = brighter than after the defeat the revolutionary movement in Tate in 1905. The Mensheviks wailed about a defeated revolution and proposed to replace action by mere propaganda. But Lenin knew not the term, defeated revolution, The proletariat can lose- battles in the revolution. But it can not lose its revolution. Action is the only form of struggle that leads to suc- cess. Action is the only teacher that gives understanding and self- confidence to the masses. One battle of the revolution is lost. Long live the Revolution! Lenin nailed to the pillory and held up to the contempt jfon, of the workers those charlatans who clothed their ay bourgeois coward- ice and hatred the working class in a pseudo-Marxian wrapper to pass them on, with treacherous intentions, as revolutionary socialism. erything. The dark days of Brest- Litovsk demonstrated that. Indigna- tion ran against the impudent proposals General Hoffmai outstanding military andes of the Rather peace, was the cry. But Lenin stood UI He carefully weighed the chances for success of a continued struggle. He came to the conclusion that no amount of sacrifice on the battlefields of German imperialism could save the revolution.. It is unworthy of a revolutionist to sacrifice himself to an emotion. The revolution demands commission. shameful , {the Russian waste, a success in f devel t. apparently against terrible Lenin oresaw this evelopment a as against this sentimental wave. | war is equal to the revolution. Therefore peace i means, even a brigand peace. Lenin was the proletariat’s great- est teacher because he was its great- est leader. His maxim was that the wo. class will learn methods and aims o’ Psy oe only in the struggle itself. The Marxist, as a leader, leads the masses on to the highways of experience, and, as a teacher, he in- terpretes that experience for and to them. Ths application of that maxim is the essence of Leninism. And our devotion. A continuation -< > i Leninism is the secret of success of —s prin- ciple of the Third | Internatio: Le- ninism ‘ accom! 7 ag the tremendous task of clarifying and the international revolutionary work- ers’ movement out of the indefinite mass it became under pseudo-Marx- ian cage ee Lenin was the undisputed — of his party pa of all enemies and y those who it In| the lash of his povca Be once for their treachery toward the working class explain this leadership by accusing ym of dictatorial methods. But it is not the heartless despot who gains the love of millions. The despot is feared, not loved. To convince and to inspire his comrades and his fol- lowers, and not to terrorize them, that was his tactic. Yet he was no sentimentalist. Like a rock he stood and fought for the thing he considered of importance and value to the success of the revo- lution. He was ruthless against what he porte Phas treacherous and false theories and tactics. But he was patient with the masses that lacked understanding. Soul of Russian Revolution. The theoretician, the teacher and the leader of the working class com- bined in a wonderful harmony in Lenin the revolutionist, Lenin can- not be disassociated from the Rus- sian revolution. Lenin was the head and the soul of that revolution. His convictions supplied hope to it when all seemed hopeless. His resource- fulness supplied new ways and new methods when all seemed lost. His indomitable spirit supplied energy when the long and terrible struggle seemed to have exhausted everybody. He led the revolution. He guarded the revolution. He was the revolu- Though Lenin is dead, Leninism will live and will lead the proletariat jon and on. The revolutionary work- ; ers of the world realize the tremen- dousness of their loss. They close their ranks more tightly then ever. Every individual revolutionist tries to double his energy and activity to make up for the loss. Over the bier of Lenin the com- munisis the world over, pledge to follow the path that he has hewn as his life work out of the solid rock of the via dolorosa of the working ~ 9 noe And to those of his enemies, the | who rejoiced at the death of our j leader we will demonstrate that Le- | snd to. thelr system anova he: was and to their system as ever he was while alive. Lenin will live in the memory of mankind om His life work has put its stamp upon future society. And the loyalty py love of the revo- lutio’ working masses will com plete whatever was left Pay lle at the time of the unexpected death of their great leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov, Lenin, Lenin on on the March Action i in Germany and the Theory of Offensive that does not matter. Hundreds of my party. Can a Party have i over the one admissi- ”_ offensive? Is there a Centrist, Ate | meg hong Wan it not wrong to begin to speak| # of the theory of Offegsive in Germany aed | of workers fought hero- cfc ot age A many) fo ian”, inst the many) fought we pon agti gay| © pr al what Radek said about Max Holz in| ive? When anyone, be| ive.) a Russian article. And it is is criticize the P. D.| mistakes co: anyone, le f thou- struggle of hundreds o: A yg a like Levi, pe was be we prepare offens- a ites Not even the detene- indeed, the offensive ex- he even an anarchist, fights heroically |'isted only in ’ leadi rtich against the pene ye arn a sand y This hye y, Spmiied to the March - cared conred Cbg) deal, When, however tion in Ge of thousands fight y in the year 1921 is we pacers Y admit that. But the of Offensive in general is not capitalist class—that | wrong.