The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 17, 1931, Page 14

% é DAILY WORKER, NEW YO. .c URDAY, } ™When Lenin died, many of us{ with the revision of the theory of pA! was still fairly high, when @xperienced a painful feeling of un-| Marx. Lenin, in a violent struggte @ertainty. Many thought: how shall we finish Lenin’s work without | Lenin? were sharply criticizing Lenin him- @elf. Lenin built our Party as a mass proletarian party, combining iron discipline, a centralized organi- gation, strong leaders and profes- sional revolutionaries with the broadest participa . of the pro! tarian masses, and the recruitme of more and more proletarians into its Bolshevik ranks. | “Lenin trained up hundreds and | thousands of aciive party builders, | from among the illegal workers, who | had fought shoulcer to shoulder | with him, learned. from him how to | build a party, learned how to lead | it through difficulties and setbacks | to victory. It is just this force of old pro-| fessional revolutionaries who, back- ed by the masses, are now continu- | ing and completing the work begun | by Lenin. The Party, stricken by the death of .its leader, began to study aues- tions of party leadership with es- pecial care and vigilance. The Par- ty kn.w that in the ranks of its| leadership there were those who had wavered and fallen away from | Lenin in the most difficult days. The | Party knew that in the ranks of | the Party leadership was to be/| | found the Menshevik of yesterday, Trotsky. But the Party knew al that in the ranks of the Party w: still to be found one of the di disciples of Lenin, who during whole period of his 22 years of shevik activity had never left L in’s side, had always carried on a / consistent Leninist policy, and in | the most difficult years, the years | of reaction, had been one of the} most forceful builders of the Party This disciple of Lenin is Comrade Stalin. “Stalin belonged to that category , of old professional revolutionaries which has worked from day to day to build up the Party, in circum- stances of difficulties and defeat, firmly and unwaveringly moving to- ; wards the goal, fully convinced that . the Party would conquer in the | in the conditions of proletarian dic- ond. a tatorship.” The role of Stalin as one of the | . best organizers and builders of our; «put greatest of all were the ser- Party was already predetermined | vices rendered by Comrade Stalin in during the dawn of development of | defending the theoretical princi- aur party, when the foundation | pies of Leninism after Lenin's death, stones were being laid, when the/ when the oldest adversary of Lenin | first Party circles were being or- | _yotsky—remaining true to Men- ome pi shevism and fighting against Lenin even during his lifetime, revealed his “Treachery in policy always be- | true self and attacked the Party on es. revision of theory. The| basic questions of theory and poli- of social democracy begaaj tics. When the authority of Trot- - { . . + Viadimir Ilyitch Ulianov-Lenin was born on April-23, 1870, in the town of Simbrisk. His ancestors vere peasants. He graduated from Simbirsk college in 1887, receiving the highest ratings in all subjects. That fall he was expelled from Kasan University, which he had just entered, for participation in student movements. In 1891, he passed his examination in the Law Faculty at Petersburg and obtain- ed the degree of Assistant Bar- rister. In 1888 Lenin began to study By 1893, when comrade Lenin moved to St. Petersburg, he was @ matured revolutionary leader. He went abroad for the first time in April, 1895, to estab- lish peneteeer connections. After his and comrade, Seekers: Lenin led in ‘the. formation ‘9 the: Bolshevik Patty in 1903, & since then carried on a siden pay against Menshevism and _ revision- ism, defended the purity of Marxian Thinking thus, comrades|theory. Revisonism and opportun- @id not suspect that actually they /ism have the quality of reviving in new forms and in new species, even | many still considered him above all criticism, Comrade Stalin was, the first openly and decisively before the whole Party, to speak of the Menshevism of Trotsky, and called the party to a decisive fight against oF JOSEPH STALIN, General Secretary, C. P. S. U. ‘ Trotskyism, against its attempts to | revise Lenin on fundamental ques- tions: the nature of our revolution, the relation of the proletariat to the peasantry, the question of the con- struction of the Party. This strug- gle took on a particularly sharp form when Zinoviev and Kamenev, who prided themselves on being the closest disciples and co-workers of Lenin, tried to throw their own weight into the service of Trotsky, when they hypocritically and phar- isically, under the cover of Lenin- FACTS OF LENIN’S LIFE against the Mensheviks. He. re- turned to Russia to take part in the 1905 revolution, but after this subsided, on the insistence of the comrades, in went abroad. This second iod of exile was some- what shorter but a more difficult period. , Already in 1910 there were symptoms of revival of the revo- lutionary wave. Before and during the war of 1914-1918, Lenin was carrying. on a fight against the opportunism of the ‘Second Inter- national and was buildfhg up the organization and discipline of the revolutionary forces. He laid the foundation for the establishment of the Communist International. In 1917 Lenin returned to Rus- sia, where all of his abilities and he} long revolutionary experience were thrown into the October Revolu- tion. In 1918 was wounded by a Social Revolutionist, but he re- covered and returned to his work A} of establishing the new Soviet Union and leading it through its first trying: “years, i “-The ~ gtéeat - gra op ppm “leader ‘died on January 21. 199. | revolution.” | \far as they are a continuation of | tasks. f than once emphasized the new re- | | in the following way:— | watch, seeing nothing until seme JANUARY 17, 1981 STALIN, and LENIN (Bieerpts frony ‘an article by L. Kaganovich) ism, went against the Party and its Central Committee, and made a bloc with Trotsky, who was moving over to the counter-revolution, In those days, iron will, constancy, and most of all, deep theoretical under- standing “of Leninism; and confi- dence of being in the right, were needed to struggle determinedly against and finally smash these at- tacks of ‘the enemies of Leninism; }and not only to do_ this, but to | mobilize the masses of the people | to fulfill the will of Lenin, to re- | inforce the dictatorship of the pro- |letariat, and to build Socialism. | Here the greatest service of Stalin | was that he was able to give prin- | cipal emphasis, | the question of the possibility of | building Socialism in our country. Stalin defended this Leninist theory in the struggle against those petty- | bourgeois, Menshevik opportunists | | and whiners who completely denied | | the possibility of building Socialism | in our country, and hid their denial | | with Left phrases about the world | “Tit every new stage of our devel- | opment, Comrade Stalin has brought | |forward first class organizational With the advent of new con-/} | ditions, Comrade Stalin, has more quirements demanded of the lead- | ership. These tasks he has defined ‘To sit at the helm and keep calamity overtakes us—this is no | kind of leadership, Bolshevism does not interpret leadership in this\Wway. To lead means to fore- as it deserved, to} ae r [Lenin Thoughts on Intervention —— Ey In Lenin’s writings we find a deep Marxian analysis of intervention, its causes, development, and its misere able end for world capitalism. Ta be acquainted with the fundamen« { tal thoughts of Lenin on this quese tion is very important for the un- | derstanding of the naturn of the present intervention conspiracies of Poincare and Briand, as well as of all leading imperialist powers in so the policies of Clemenceau and Foch in the years 1918-1920, Below we give various quotations from Lenin, dealing with interven- tion: , “The representatives of the ruling classes stake all on intervention and war because for them these are the | final and decisive battles and they ; Willgnot stop before any crimes in order to destroy the Soviet power. | Does not the history of Socialism, | particularly of French Socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary strivings, show us that when the see; and to foresee, comrades, is not always so‘simple. It is one thing when a dozen other leading comrades keep watch -and notice defects in our work; but the work- ing masses do not want to keep watch, or cannot doe so; they therefore do not notice the defects. Then there is every chance that one may miss something, fail to see everything. It is quite another thing when, together with dozens of other leading comrades, there keep watch, hundreds of thous- ans and millions of workers; see- ing the shortcomings in our work, bringing to light our mistakes, taking up the common cause of Socialist construction, and point- ing out the way to improve the position.” (From a speech at the meeting of the Active of the Moscow Or- ganization of “the C.P.S.U. con cerning the work of the April Plenum of the Central Committee of the C.P.S.U,, a. 1928) Lenin’s Collected Works in order to itive every active re-| volutionist an <opportunity to ob- tain Lenin’s works, the Interna- tional Publishers have now organ- ized a popularly priced edition of those volumes that have already appeared. The edition is in every detail identical with the original one, except in price. The price is cut in half. The volumes so far. published and available in the present low priced edition contain the most important of Lenin’s _ writings. “The Iskra Period” embodies the theoretical crystallization of bol- shevism. “The Imperialist War” formulates the Leninist ‘struggle against war, which is so important at this moment of imminent war danger. “The Revolution of 1917” embodies the Leninist preparation and organization of the November Revolution. And in “Materialism and Empirico-Criticism” we have Lenin’s most important theoretical work,’.a -defense and ayrcerment be the exh ea historital-mat, ing. “‘perialist governments * | toiling masses take power into their | hands, the ruling classes commit | unheard of crimes and carry through | shootings when the mcneybags are }in danger? Capital in the | Soviet Union is allied with inter- | nationat-capital.” | “The Soviet Union could have been destroyed only then when the people who shouted so*much about the defense of the fatherland @nd about their patriotism, showed their true capitalist nature and started to work out conspiracies today, with the German bayonets in order to- gether with them, to murder the Ukrainian Bolsheviks, tomorrow with the Turkish bayonets in order to at- tack the Bolsheviks, after tomor- row with the Czecho-Slovakian bay- onets in order to abolish the Soviet power and murder Bolsheviks. Only foreign assistance, only with the aid of foreign bayonets, only by selling Russia to Japanese bayonets, Ger- man, Turkish, only these methods have up to now given a shadow fo success to the conspirators of the capitalists and landlords.” * % rs #, “We have achievea victory because we were united. Because we suc- ceeded in winning allies in the camp of our enemies and our ene-: mies, who are much more power- ful than\ we are, have suffered de- feat no unity, there can be no unity, be- cause every month of our struggle with them, meant dictotogrenion in their own camp.” * % 2 “The armies of the allies have proven to be incapable of carrying on a battle against the revolution- ary Soviet Russia. We have taken away frorn the Allies their soldiers. The. victory which we achieved when we compelled them to take away the French and English arm- jes was “ which we had over the Allies, We. took away their armies.. We ane swered the-much: higher military; and technical superiority of the . Allies with the solidarity ‘of the: Masses against: thelr own im-— because amongst them, there is - }) most important victory tn mn any ee