The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 5, 1924, Page 11

® The Russian R 4 -By-: By RUTHENBERG. ) The-€lorious victory of the Rusaian workers on November 7, 1917, did not only bring into existence the first workers’ government. Great as was the triumph of the Russian _prole- tarian revolution in establishing the workers’ state in Russia, the Russian workers thru their victery made even a-greater contribution to the workers of the world. Thru their victory, they laid the foundation for the creation of the Communist International, which is today the center and rallying point for the revolutionary workers the world over. There had been left wing socialist groups within the Second Internation- al even prior to the outbreak of the world war in 1914. When the Second International fell te pieces under the impact of the war, these groups en- deavored to come tegether in erder to form @ nucleus for a new interna- tional. Meetings were held at Zim- merwald and Kienthal, during the war, at which tentative efforts were made to unite these groups. These efforts, however, did not bring any permanent results. It required the clarifying experience of the first victorious proletarian re- volution to lay the foundation for the new international. The Russian work- ers under the leadership of the Bol sheviki organized their Soviets and with the slogan “All power to the Sov- jets” on their lips, struck the blow “which brought the first proletarian state into existence; they showed on the field ef action the course which the proletarian revolution takes and the basis of the new proletarian state. The way to power for the proietariat was no longer a theory, but had been demonstrated thru action. The ex- periences and examples of the Russian workers made the Marxian theory |workers. If, when Marx and Engels |It was the power of the Communist ' proletarian victory!" [ SEVEN YEARS AGO @ (Continued from preceding page.) masses turned for leadership to the Bolsheviks who had answered the at- tacks of those in power against the revolution by the slogan: “All power te the Soviets!” Te ae Yes, all power to the Seviets! Let the masses that started the revolution defend and complete it. Let those masses transform the enly instrument of defense of the revolution, the So- viets, into their instrument of power, into a revolutionary government. With the leadership ef the Soviets im the hands of the Bolsheviks, the sit- uation clarified and the struggle be tween the Seviets and the old state began in earnest. It ended with the defeat of the old order and the gior- fous advent of the new. At last the proletariat of the world had regained its power of speech and through its Russian brothers it answered the crime of the first impertalist world war with the establishment of the first workers’ state. For the first time in history the proletariat had claimed its heritage and succeeded by its own efforts. A new epoch was initiated and the construction of a new society had begun. The domina- tion of property over the people was ended and the control of the people over property was established. The dictatorship of capitalism was term- imated and the dictatorship of the iat from that skirmish suggested to the defendants of the old order the tactic to take command of the attack- ing army, thus insuring its defeat. But the watchful eye, the clear insight, they had put to test stand out im a great new white light. The murky clouds in which the Second Interna- tional had hidden the principles of Marx were dispersed by this great shaft of light. Thru their example, thru their practice, thru their action on the field of battle, the Russian workers taught the revolutionary groups in other countries the read they must travel in order to win their victory. ‘ In every country, strong groups in the socfalist parties rallied to the prin- ciples of Marxism as illuminated by Leninist practice in the victery of November 7, 1917. Thus the Russian proletarian revolution created the Communist International. When the call for the first congress of the Com- munist International was issued, tm March, 1919, there were groups in every country ready to answer the call ‘and to joim in forming the Cem- munist International. The Russian workers, thru their.victory, had rot only created their own workers’ state, but had created the organization which would lead and direct the world proletarian revolution. ‘ The Communist fitternational. ) In the seven years that the Russian workers have defended and made safe their victory, the Communist In- ternational has spread its influence to the uttermost places of the earth. To- day there is not a place en the face of the globe: where the Communist In- ternational has not some following where its ‘appeal to the workers of the world has not some response. In fifty-one countries the Communist In- ternational has organized its sections. It is the leader of an erganization of revolutionary workers which num- ber from two to two-and-a-half mil- Hon and its influence and leadership extends over tens ef millions other wrote the first Communist Manifesto, it wag true “that. a specter was haunt. ing Europe—the specter of Commu- nism,” this is a thousand times more true. today. The capitalist governments the world ever hate and fear the Commu- nist International. And well they may, for its power is not limited or restrict- ed by national boundaries. If the Wnglish ruling class hates the Com- munist International it is because it knews that the influence of the Com- munist International. reaches into England, and when it speaks, the Eng- lish workers respond. If the French government hates and fearg the Com- munist International; it is because it knows that hundreds of thousands, yes, millions of French workers listen when the Communist ‘International speaks and are’ ready to follow its leadership. .If Mr. Hughes hates and fears the Communist International, it is because he knows that in the Unit- |. ed States the Communist International |. has its organized section and its fol- lowers ready to unite with the work- ers the world ever in rallying under Protecting the Workers’. Victory. The Communist International creat- ed thru the Russian revolution has in turn become the greatest defender of the victory of the Russian workers. If the might of the imperialist capi- talist world has not been organized and thrown against the Russian work- ers’ state in one united effort to de- stroy it, it is because the power ef the Communist International has made such a united offensive impossible. When in 1920, England threatened Soviet Russia, during the Polish war, it was the power of the Communist In- ternational, speaking thru the English workers’ councils of action which calied a halt to British imperialism. International which was expressed in the strikes of Italian workers, Ger- man workers, French workers, yes, even American workers, who refused to handle munitions of war for use by, Poland against Soviet Russia. The imperialist capitalist nations have not dared to openly mobilize their power and strike at the Russian Workers’ Republic because within the borders of these capitalist imperialist nations, there stand the armies of the Communist International, ready to act under its-leadership against such an imperialist attempt. If the im- perialist capitalist governments dared to, they would long ago bave made the attempt to destroy the first prole- tarlan government; That they have not dared to, is due to the fact that their attempt to mobilize their power would be answered by the marching millions ef proletarian workers with the ery, “Hands Off Soviet Russiaf” Celebrate Beginning ef Wortd Revolution. In celebrating the azniversary of the triumph of the Russian workers we do not only celebrate the victory of the Russian workers. We cele brate the beginning of the world revo- lution, we celebrate the creation of the Communist International which came out of the victory of the Rus sian workers, we celebrate the crea- tion of that Marxist-Leninist leader- ship of the revolutionary workers which has already spread its prin- ciples and organization to all parts @ the world which today is thunder- ing at the doors of capitalism and which tomorrow will crash thru those doors and become the center of the World Proletarian State. As we hpil the glorious triumph of the Russian workers, we also cry out, “Hail to the Communist International built up- on the rock foundation of he Russian Marxian theory with Communist tac: os, there emerged finally the Union of|though grinding their teeth in tmpot- tics and action in a perfect synthesis| Socialist Soviet Republics. of the November revolution and the es tablishment of the first workers’ state Seven years have passed—sever years of struggle, of suffering, ef mis- ery, and of brilliant achievements. The taking over of power by the So- viets marked the beginning of the most heroic efforts that only a revelution- ary class is capable ef performing. Although the Soviets presented in themselves a mew machinery of gov- ernment, one that was to replace en- tirely the old one, yet, too many threads of the old administrative machinery of the vast empire ef Rus sia still ran through the hands of the old bureaucracy. Says Ariande Tyr- kova, a bitter foe of the Soviets, of the first days after November: “The minor council of ministers continued its sittings, striving to preserve th« succession of authority and, H pos sible, to reinstate the power ef the provisional government. . . The en tire mechanism of the state was un- der their control.” Sabotage set in an a scale never before witnessed, and perpetrated by a class whe, dur- ing its rule, had dealt with mere talks of sabotage against them, as major crimes. To destroy the last remnants of thisstatemachinery became the fore- most task of the new rulers. The worker who had come out of the fac- tory only yesterday to exchange his tool for a rifle, today had to exchange his rifle for a pen and become part of the administrative machine of the new workers’ state. For a time, two parallel machines fought a life and death struggle; one old, experienced, trained in fts task, but ebsolete and representative of a defeated class: the other, new, inexperienced, to a certain degree even chaotic, but re presentative of a victorius new ruling class, the proletariat. But this new class had that indispensable quality of a revolutionary class of which Dan- The victory of the Russian workers seven years ago rekindled the hope of the toiling millions the world over. The sun of the new workers’ state ot Russia lighted the path of struggle that the proletariat of the world must travel. It inspired these masses. It taught them how to succeed. But this victory also drove fear in- to the camp of capitalism. Its solid: arity manifested itself at once and the deadly foes on the battlefields of Europe, entente and central powers, became allies on Russian soil for a common campaign against the So- viets. The “humanitarian” Wilson tried to spit the red heart of revolu- tionary Russia on the bayonets of an expeditionary force of American sold- iers. The successors of Danton and Robespierre, the present rulers of France, played the role of the Duke of Brunswick in the Russian revolu- tion. The armies of the maglomaniac William, harrassed the workers’ re- public and robbed it of its most val uable provinces. And while English money bought and paid for counter- revolutionary uprisings within Soviet Russia, an English army stole for the ruling powers of England, the val- uable oil-fields on the south of the Black Sea. But even against a world of enemies the Russia of the workers prevailed. The enemy within was smashed by the force of the Red Ter- ror—the enemy from without by the force of the Red Army. And today, Come lation of the DAILY WO '—help us out—come over! 'spiring hymn of the _ At any time during the day or evening if you have an hour to spare—come over and volunteer your help to enable us to get out a heap of mailing, inserting and other odd jobs on the campaign to increase the circu- MONTHLY. We are very busy and have loads of work ent rage, ene by one the capitalist governments must recognize the hated new pewer. The United States alone, of all great nations, cannot forget the wrongs it did to Soviet Russia, Tt refuses recognition. But, like rev- olutionary France of old teld Ausiria, so Soviet Russia can teil the Pe¢k- sniffs at Washington: “Soviet Russia is like the sun. You may refuse to recognize it; but yet it shines.” Rovolutions are the loco’ ft history. The revolution of November, 1917, pulled the develpment of so- ciety along with the speed of an ex- press train. It broke the power of capitalism in Russia. It revealed the rottenness of world capitalism. It demonstrated the strength of the proletariat. Like a monument to that strength it stands out in its great- {ness and magnificence and sings ont to the proletariat of the world the in- Social Revolu- tion: ; Arise ye prisoners of starvation! Arise, ye wretched of the earth! For justice thunders condemnation; A better world’s in birth! Have you heaved your brick? PITTSBURGH, PA. DR. RASNICK DENTIST Renderi E rt endering oz ¥ Dental Service ears. 645 SMITHFIELD ST., Near 7th Ave. 1627 CENTER AVE., Cor. Arthur St Over! R and the WORKERS evolution and the Communist International | NA