The Revolutionary Age A CII"ollicle and Illle.-pl-cl&llio'n of Evellts in [ol-ope
I. I, No. I. Haturday, Novt"mbf'r 16, 191H. Pri('l', 2 CentN There Shall Not Be A New War-Against Socialism!
In these most glorious of all glorious days in history, peace, th~ blaek crows of American journalism united when thrones and Capitalism are crumbling and the in a chorus against the Revolution in Germany and workers determin ing to become the masters of the world, A ustria, united in infamous proposals for a new war to the glory of it all is the despair and the gloont of the. maintain "order" in Russia and Germany, wllich means tyrants of C~ll)ital and industry ... everywhere, who feel to assist the junkers and the capitalists against the their suprema{'y tottering to its end. workers and Socialism. 'Vith the ('oming of I)CH('e ('mne new and mightier \Vher(' these mcn should have a heart, tlH'Y have a lU'ohlems, new &!nd mightier sncial struggle~. \Vith the dollar mark. "There these men should have a bruin to comin~ of peace comes the threat of a new war against usc for humanity and progress, th('y have a brain to use Sncialism in Germany and in Russia. for Capitalism and reaction. Where these men should 'I'll(' hU('f.'aneers of Cal)italism have for one y€ar been use the I)en for the peOI)le, they use the pen for the piOo»nl'ing that Hol'ialism in Russia should be crushed. nmst('rs of the pcople. Thc.y have be('n l)loOposing tlu~t a huge army should h(' Two days before the abdication of the I~aiser, the H'nt to Hu~sia to ('rush till' \Vorkmen's and Peasants' Roston "Post" suggested that it might be necessary to GOH~~rnment, the gf('at('st e\'('nt in the history of the keep autocracy in German)' in control for some time world. the first time that the common people, the pro longer! duc('rs, w('re the conscious masters of industry, of gov ('rnment, of society. Four days before the Kaiser's abdication~ the New York "Evening Sun" declared that it might be necessary These very same buccaneers, through the newspallers, for the Allies and the United States to become a\tl ally ilre now mobilizing I)ublic opinion for a new war should of tlu.! German Government to crush "disorder'~ an<1 ~odali~m, revolutionary Sodalism, coflquer definitely "~lnarchy" in Germany! in Germany. 'rhese proposals are general. For in spite of slanders and lies, in spi~ of auu.;;c ao()ut "anarchy," it is Socialism that conquered in Rm~sia, and This mobilization of public opinion is active and gen it is Socialism that is conquer;'lg in Germany. It is this er.al. The men who write, but do not fight, are eager fOl Socialism that Uu.- hir('ling Ilrt.·~S of CUllitalism ()bject~ a new war to protect Capitalism in Germany, to restore to, and it i~ agilin~t this Ho<'ialislll that it )lr.O)lOSt·S to Capitalism in Russia. wngt' WHr. For four and a half yt.'ars, Hu.'st.' newspapt.'r~t h~l\'e hl'l'll If th('st' prollosals oVl'rwlll'lm th(' government, if a IU'W daillning the I{aiscr; now many openly sug-gest while war is shlrted. the world wiH plunge into greater dis others insinuate that Kaiserism would be p,"eferablc to aster than during the llast four and it half years. If Soc Socialism. And it is precisely these n(,WSllapers that. icllism is conquered in Germany and Russia, it will mean br~lnded the Socialist ClS pro-K~liser; but it is precisely bla('k reaction conquering;. it will mean that instead of ~he Socialist who is glad that the I{ais('r is gone; and it is the world re-organizing on the just and human basis precisely the Socialist who objects to a restoration of of peace and fraternity, of the w~rkers' mastery of their I{aiserism in order to overwhelm Socialism. own destiny, the world will re-organize on th(' basis of :\len and women of the working class: Do you realize iml)erialistic Capitalism, of more intense oPVrt.'ssion 0 r what" new Win would mean?' Do you realize that yOul' th~ workerM, and pr()duct~ an era of new and bloodier. present joy would become terror and sorrow? Do not wars. forget what war means I Should the reactionary press succeed in promoting a A new war would not alone plunge Europe into dis n~w war. the 40,000 American mothers, wives and sisters aster, it would plunge the world into disaster. UI)On tll(~ of th(' dt'ad would become 400,000, and morc. Th(' lives American workers would fall the largest share of the of ~cms, hroth('rs Clnd husbands would be lost in 'a reac burden. And upon the Am('ricnn workers depends the tionary ('mlSl'. th(' joy and ~al)l)iness of our people be pn'v('ntion of the sinister IllUOl)oses of the neWSl)apcr t-un".' 1o!Inom .and sorrow o\·('rwhelming. hir('lings of ]"('action. If these sinistt.'r I>m"!)()~('S triumph, TIl<.' .\meril'an pt'ople ar(' happy. They celebrated the Cnitcd States would become the ('('nh"t' of rcadioll, OUIO PCf\pJt' .:,.\.:Il! .1y. 1'1l{~ntnnl'nusly, irre~istihly, th(' dar the fals(' \V-itil terrible {'onsequen<.'('s to own and the world. l~\.:\\'~ of the momistic(' came: and th<,y (l('lchr~\tcd &liain
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TO RBVOLUTIONABYAGB N~"'ll, 1.18 The German· Revolution F.: .'}e\",lution in Germany is only incidentally a opportunity of other nations; and it is this Imperialism and Soldiers. A provisional government was organ 'e"ohl!;,~n a~·.ainst the Kaiser. It is a revolution against that is being annihilated in Germany, as it was anni ized, .after declaring the monarchy abolished, and C~I.iL1usm "td Imperialism, a revolution against that hilated in Russia. peace negotiations started. :iy! [:!In of industrial and financial brigandage of which The simple abdication of the Kaiser would alter Six weeks ago, it was admited ~neraUy that the ·the Kaiser was simply the autocrat-symbol and ~e nothing; his system-the unity of autocracy with German army was still intact, could still fight on; to braggart expression. imperialistic finanoe-would still retain control, still day, Germany is making peace-why? Because Bolshe The capitalist press bas for four and a half years oppress the proletariat, clash with other Imperialisms, vism and the Revolution decreed the end of the war. fooled the world into believing that Germany was produce new wars. Without this revolutionary activity, the troops of the what it was because of the Kaiser and the JunkeJ'$. This unity of autocracy and Imperialism in Ger Central Powers could not have maintained a victorious Tkls is an error of the first magnitude. The auto many, of autocrat and capitalist, is proven by the offensive, but they could still have maintained a vic cracy in Germany was not a Junker autocracy, it fact that the Revolution, once in action, immediately torious defensive for some time to come. was primarily an autocracy of industry and finaoce, develops into a revolution against Capitalism. The The ideological impUlse of Bolshevism. uniting with f capitalist Imperialism. The autocracy persisted in abdication of the Kaiser becomes simply an incident, the terrilbe agony and mass misery, flared up into the \.iermany because' Capitalism and Imperialism found comparatively trivial and unimportant. As in Russia Revolution. The great event that the Bolsheviki, that it profitable to use the autocracy as an instrument for the downfall of the Czar was the signal of the new the Russian workers and Peasants, had struggled and oonquest and against Socialism. The industrial and revolutionary struggle against the Czars of industry starved arid died for came into being. And as German fi~ncial Kaisers united with Kaiser Wilhelm in plots and financ,-, so in Germany the abdication of the Kai Imperialism naturally acted against Soviet Russia, of plunder and agression. Kaiserism would have been ser flares up into. the revolutionary struggle agaitast German revolutionary Socialism acts together with overwhelmed if it had not converted itself into an the Kaisers of finance and industry. Soviet Russijl. instrument of Capitalism and Imperialism in Germany. That the German Revolution is a developing pro Some weeks ago, upon the appearance of the crisis letarian revolution is evident in the general organ in Germany, the Soviet Government offered and During -the war, the magnates of industry and fi ization of Councils (Soviets) of Workmen, Soldiers pledged help to the German workers in their revolu nance enthusiastically supported the war and were and Peasants as instruments of revolutionary action, tion. Lenin, from a sick bed, wrote a letter to the the most aggressive of all in proposing annexations. and the arising demand that .all government power Central Executive Committee, saying: "The crisis in The National Liberal Party three years ago presented should be vested in these Councils. This development Germany shows either a revolution begun or a revolu . a rpemorandum to the government urging the annexa characterized the proletarian revolution in Russia. tion inevitable in the near future. Placing Sc~eide tion of Belgium and Northern France ; and the Na Ololt of the terror aad agony of the war, and out mann &: Co. in the government will simply hasten !tonal Liberal Party is the party of big capital financed of defeat, is coming the revolution against Imperiali$ffi the revolutionary explosion. We had decided to have >y the steel barons. It was the capitalist and the in Germany. an army of a million men by spring, but we shall now nanckr who formulated plans for the economic sub- It is this revolution tha:t was the chief factor in tire need three million." -:tion of Russia, and the world; it was the capitalist coming of peace-Bolshevism that conquered. The situatiot:! in Germany, in Euroope, is still fluid, • the financier who plunged Germany into disaster; The break came first in Bulgaria, where :Solshevism events rapidly follow each other, still in process of d.n", it is the capitalist and the financier who must be was rampant, compelling Czar Ferdinand to make a development. The task of the revolution in Germany overthrown, and pay the penalty of their crimes. counter-revolutionary peace in a desperate attempt is to become definitely a proletarian revolution, to Capitalist Imperialism, of which German Imperial to save his -throne. But he went into oblivion, then conquer all power for the Socialist .proletariat. ism was the complete and fidal expression, thrives his son, and now Bulgaria is a republic. Only a definite proletarian revolution in Germany apoqaggression, upon conquest, upon increasing its Then Bolshevism flared up in Austria-Hungary, de can make a clean sweep of the old reactionary system, ""In economic opportunity by limiting the economic moralized the army, organized Councils of Workmen and assure the coming (Jf universal Socialism. Against Intervention in Russia To Citizen Romain Rolland: ory. I send you enclosed a copy of the notes which which they rightly expect the restoration of the old At the hour when Republicans of the whole world, I could find, that is nearly all those which I 'have regime. The parties of the extreme Left, with a heavy celebrating !the anniversary of the ,fall of the Bastille, sent to France. heart, have to consent to this provisional re<;oncilia pay
This government, the bastard product of an tendency of the bourgeois liberals and the pett he Revolutionary Age illegitimate union of Capitalism and "Socialism" bourgeois Socialists. :hronicle and Interpretation of Events in Europe. could not secure the confidence of the masses. Three groups are clearly apparent in the rev The revolts of the masses, in~tead of being olutionarY movement in Germany: UIS C. FRAIXA •••••.•••••••••••••••••• Editor ended, were multiplied, and the bourgeois."Social ADMON)I :\IAcALPINE •••• " ••.•• • Associate Editor I.-The Social-Democratic Party, the party ist" government collapsed. The new government, of Ebert, Scheidemann & Co. This party is petty Contributing Editors with Ebert as Chancellor, appointed by grace of ;COTT KEARIXG LUDWIG LoRE bourgeois in tendency and policy, aspiring simply Imperial Chancellor Max, now marched upon the after bourgeois democracy. At its Wuertzburg fOHN REED SEN KATAYAMA stage of events. Convention last year, Scheidemann expressed the N. 1. HOT.:RWICH G. WEINSTEIN What is this Ebert government? Ebert is a policy of the party by declaring that, in spite of Issued Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday moderate Socialist of the Scheidemann persuasion, all conflicts with the bourgeois state, the prole 885 \\"ashington St., Boston, Mass. an influential member of the Social Democratic tariat in bound to it, and that the coming of Party. The Social Democratic 'Party eluting four Socialism is a process of all the classes and not of Saturday, November 16, 1918 and one half years of war supported the govern the proletariat alone. This group represents ment and the war, declared that the proletariat petty bourgeois democracy, and is counter-revol THE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA owed a duty to the state, and was consistently -utionary. The Soviet Commissaire of Foreign Affairs Tchi counter-revolutionary,-acting equally against 2.-The Independent Socialist Party, the party cherin on October 24 sent a note to I resident Wilson the oncoming proletarian revolution in Germany of Haase, Ledebour & Co. This party, organized saying: and the accomplished proletarian revolution in in the spring of 1917, represents a secession from "As a condition of the armistice, during which Russia. In tendency, and as an historical cate the Social-Democratic Party on the issue of sup peace negotiations shall be begun, you in your note gory, the Ebert government corresponds to the port of the government and the war. It is' not to Germallf demanded evacuation of occupied terri Kerensky "Socialh!t" government in Russia. a definitely, uncompromisingly revolutionary tories. \Ye are ready, ~Ir. President, to conclude an The Kerensky government was a "Socialist" party in tendency, being still dominated by the armistice on thIs condition, and request you to in government, but it retained the fundamental ideology of. the older Socialism. But it is not a. form us when you intend to withdraw your troops bourgeois relations of government, of industry, unified party; it. may develop a more revolu tionary policy under the pressure of events, or, from Murman, Archangel and Siberia." and of society. A "Socialist" government, the more likely, it may split, one faction going over There has been absolutely no oflkial answer to Kerensky government played the miserable farce to Ebert & Co., the other faction going over to this request. The newspapers have jeered Tchicherin of "unity of all the parties,"-but exduding the the revolutionary Socialists. as "cheeky," while proposing an invasion of Russia revolutionary proletariat. The Kerensky govern by way of Constantinople and the Black Sea. ment was a "Socialist" government, yet it acted 3.-The revolutionary Socialists, not, until The Boston "American," in its issue of November against Socialism and the revolutionary prole recently at least, organized into a political party, 14 published a \V ashington dispatch which declared tariat. The Ebert government represents the but represented by thp. Spartacus Group and the among other things: identical tendency. Group Internationale, the movement of KarL I.ielr "It can be stated authoritatively that American The Kerensky government marked the final knecht, Otto Ruhle, Rosa Luxemburg and Franz l\:Iehring,,-tt.e conscious, uncor..promising Bol troops now in Russia, both in S~ria and in the Ar desperate maneuvres of the Russian bourgeoisie she\'iki of Germany. These grOt~PS represen~ thE! changel territory. will remain for an indefinite period. to retain its supremacy by using the camouflage tendency of the revolutionary proletariat. Their In addition, as SOOn as conditions in Germany make of Socialism. It marked a period of transition, propaganda was a propaganda of Social Revolution certain the release of thousands of troops, the expe when the final forces of the class struggle pre pared for action_ It 'was impotent to act, deprived Three weeks ago. wh'le Independt:nt <;ocialist-l in dition in Russia will be reinforced. It will be the the Heichstag of defence the (l. of all real power. The most important feature of t;~rited' allair.~t intention of the Allied governments and the United ces~ive demand:;; (If Poland, Hul'~e declart'C1; States to win Russia back to her senses through sym the Kerensky period was the decision to convoke an All-Russian Congress of Soviets, which when "'Jnly -Social l'evol'ltiun can settle thf'le problemil q>athy and not further bloodshed." of peace." 1 h"!se Sodali&t!~ ;. r .. ifI favor of thl! it convened decreed all power to. the Soviets. Sympathy. and not further bloodshed? Then why governmC!IL of Council::;, ar:d h.n l! unresel'vl'dly keep the troops in Russia, and reinforce them? Bullets In Germany, the Kerensky-Ebert government and p"t!,u~Ja:,t:(ally gl'eeted the f{:'lssian So'.'j·:t are peculiar agents of sympathy. occupies the stage of events, but the actual des J\epublk. tiny of the Revolution is being determined by the Withdraw from Russia! Germany is at the "Kerensky" stage, but much organization and policy of the Councils of Work more acutely developed. The Revolution in men and SO'ldiers, the instrument of the revol AT THE "KERENSKY" STAGE Germany, said Lenin one year ~nd a half ago, will utionary masses. The division is now clearly ap be slow, very slow in starting; but once it starts, The German revolution is marching swiftly on parent, as in Russia,-the moderates demand sup it will march on with the speed of a locomotive. its way, much more swiftly than the proletarian port of the Provisional Government and the Con In two weeks, the Germans secured what it took revolution in Russia. But, while compressed into stituent Assembly, while the radicals demand all the Russians two months to secure--a bourgeoitl a shorter period of time, its stages are paralleling power to the Councils. It is this division and the "Socialist" government; in five weeks the Ger the Russian revolution. struggle it provokes that will determine the course mans secured what it took the Russians five When, abm.• t five weeks ago, the revolutionary of events. months to secure-a Kerensky government; it crl~lS developed definitely into revolutionary The revolution in Germany, as in Russia, was took the Russians three months to overthrow action, the German bourgeoisie attempted to pre made by the revolutionary mass actio~ of the their Kerensky: how long will it take the Ger vent a conap~e of its ru!e by calling upon the soldiers and workers, snapping asunder the fetters mans to overthrow their Kerensky government Klliser to abdicate, and by placing in the c!lbinet cf authoritY' and dragging Kaisel'i~m down in f.nd place all power in the Councils oi. the revolu Scheidemann ar.rl two other Socialists d his trait !"uir!~. The instrument of action of the revol tion<.ry proletariat? orous type. Instead of averting r('vu)l1tion. this l'tiOTIRry masses is the Council. of \-Vorkers. of action simI,ly hastened the revo)1.1~ion. which Soldiers, of PeHf'ants. These Council;; are neces rushed onward \vith a speed po;:itivcl~' fe,·erish. ~aril,v determined in a <;tmg2'le for ~:1 erl)nomic In its proclamation of a republic, the Schleswig The bourgeois-"Socialist" coalition government and social revolution, while the provi~ional gov Holstein Council of \ \" orkmen and Soldiers said: W85 intepdt!d to halt the onward march of the ernment wants to tinker with political forms. "The political power is in our hands. A provisional proletarian revolution-precisely the pUl-pose of The moderates are united in favor of the Con government is in process of formation. Our aim is the bourgeois-"Socialist" coalition government st.:tuent As~embly, the radicals are uniting in a free, Socialist Republic along lines that will secure organized in Russia on May 19, 1917. Government i',:vor of the immediate convocation of a National peace for the future." :oalition between the bourgeoisie and the moder Congress of Councils. lte Socialists everywhere is used by a desperate There is no l;evolution unless it is a mass rev French Socialists demand that the prevailing mil lOllrgeoisie to deceive the militant proletariat,- elution; not simply in the sense tha~ the masses itary administration of affairs shall end immediately; \ France, England, Russia, and now in Germany. m:lke the revolution, but in the sense that the that a g-elleral election be held 'at once to take action le awakening proletariat, at first, does not dis masses definitely march up on the f.tage of admini on problems of reconstntction; that union labor sh.,11 ,guish between moderate, "government" Soc strative events, consciously become the govern. 'participate in the work of reconstruction; that 'sm and revolutionary Socialism; put the im ment. This can be accomplished only by the international Socialist Congress be held and labor re ':able logic of the deY.loping cl:l:>s struggle German Councils of Workmen and Soldiers being represented at the Peace Conference. These are mo \ compels t"he proletariat to distinguish bet transformed from instruments of revolutionary derate dmands; the proletariat and . Socialism in \ the real and the false. action into organs of revolutionary government. France, will yet speak in more aggressive and decisive e bourgeois-"Socialist" coalition government, Bourgeois democracy has bet'n conquered in terms: .ined by Imperial Chancellor Max, was shat Germany: the capitalists and the parliamentary into bits by the impact of revolutionary republic are in power. Should the revolution i 'I. It could not reconcile the Revolution cease now, it will have proven a failure, since the The Xational Civic Federation warns against };e bourgeois government, nor the bourgeois re'.. olutlon will be r. success only if it establishes "anarchistic agitation." ;me\ proposes that using the rn<'lit with the Revolution. Th!; proletariat a Socialbt Fepublic by overthrowing the bourgeois Reel flag- shall he prohibited. and that the emergency 'ot be r,p!>~~sed by givin~ Scheidenman a p.d·li~,mentary forms of government ar..d ei'ectlng (;'~pionag'e laws shall be retained. By "anarchist" the .f honor in the governmcllt,--the same" the new Socialist "state" of the organized pro federation means any person who does not thank nent \\"hich had ruthlessly oppressed the ducers-a voverl:ment of the Councils. Go,l three times a day for a system, that produces -iat and waged an infamous war of con The Revolution will conquerhy means of the Morgans and Rockefellers. corntpting wealth and ',e same Scheidemann who had mobilized economic and social revolutionary tendency of degrading poverty. The espionage laws are strang ~m" w:d +' ., l'kers in support of the the masses ~onquering all power for the prole lers of freedom of expression: t' 'j should end as th .. ,ent. !1t, and annihilating th~ dO'11inantly political war ends. Repe-.tl the espionag ws I ~ TBB ·~~UTlONARY ,AGiI N.... _ll, 1'18 "EXCESSES" AND "DISORDER" IN RUSSIA With the fall of Ihe tMdmt gooernmmls fIIltieia workers didn't get control over :the factories. It was The various Factory Committees elect delegates rtsted like CIfI inctlbtu' "POff the teotles of the cmlral simply a political ~lution, not an eConomic revolu a district Worlanen's Organ of Contro1~ which reg ~twes /uu to"", fIOl merel, to1itictJI cltMge, hi tion; the rights of the Czar and the nobles had, been ates industry in a particular district. Then tnt. 'revol"tiotsj OIUI rftlolutiOft ",,",h sentU tIS yet to destroyed, and in their place were established the district Orpn~ of Control are centralized in the At r/IUUfM ~ fiul MId ordered form, but to n,,' from richts of the capitalists. The worlacrs bad no indust Russian Workmen's Council of Control, whidl retuI ON f~ c,"",g, to tIfIOther, _iii J/totIghtful mm (We rial rightS; they were still wage-siavu, still an 0p ates and bas charre of all the industries of Russia. forted 10 (Ilk l/umselves with filM' gO'lMf"Mllftu, oM pressed class. ~ Ofpns of Control decide what wages the tJf ",lull sorl, (We we MOMt to deal I" the tMkl"g 0/ Then started a new revoluti~ economic: revolu workers are to receive, how long they shaH work. tIu cOWfl(Jffts of petJeef... Excesses tJecomtlisls "O tion against the capitalists arid the employers of labor. what pr06ts-if any-are to be secured by the owuer Ils_g. .Vuhappy Russia htJ.r furnished abtfmitt re- The workers and peasants :had organized into Soviets-, -in other words, the workers thrDtlgls their euctell 11'" troof of that. Disorder immediaiely dqetJts 't Councils of Workers and Peasants, in which no cap representtStives cOfttrol industry, regMlate intJustry, de self. If excesses should occur, if disorder should italist or owner of property could be a member. These cide 'under whGt conditions they s1uJl1 fI/Ork. This is for (J time rGise its head, a sober second thought flliY Soviets decided on November 7, I9I7, that they would industrial democracy, the first in the history of the follow cmtJ (J d(JY of constructive tJetion, if we help become the government of workers· and peasants; and world. and do ffIOt hintJer.-President Wilson, in his address' that the capitalists, the owners of uidustry, should· No boss can tell a Russian worker, "You can't have to Congress, Novtmber I I. hav.e absolutely no share in the government. All men a job, there's no work for you"-no work, while mil and women should become useful workers; if any lions starve! No boss can !tell a Russian worker-"lf Germany is in the midst- of a developing proleta. person was not a useful worker, he was.a parasite, you don't like my hours and the wages I pay, get out; rian r~volution. 'Dhe course of this revolution, if it and as such should have no share in ·the government. there's plenty more I can get." The RussiMJ worker is definitely accomplishes its purpose is the conquest of The capitalist republic became a repulllic of the work no longer an industrial slave: the Russiap worker is power by the proletariat, will in large measure parallel ers. free in every sense ot'the word. Have you an indust the development and accompishments of the proleta The Soviet Republic represents full and fundament rial vote? Have you a say in your factory? rian revolution in Russia. An understanding of what's al democracy--democracy in government and de The Soviet government is the government of the being done in Russia, accordingly, will assist in un mocrtJey in ind#stry. workers; everything that is done is done in the inte derstandingthe proba:ble course of developments in The capitalist republic, suoh as in Russia under rest of the workers. It is a workers' republic, not a Germany. Kerensky, gives the people political democracy-that republic of landlords and capitalists and the sweaters "Exoesses" and "disorder" are simply the super is, you have a right to vote in politics: but you hatlle of labor. And that is the kind of society that must be ~cial appearance of revolutions, breaking loo~ in no right to vote in industry, no right to vote in the -established in every nation, by ""ans of SocitJlism every revolution. We must penetrate beneath the sur shops where you work, you have ni industrial demo the world for the workers! foce of events, we must appreciate the real tendency cracy. Industry is the most important thing in our And because there is Socialism in Russia, every and accomplishments of a revolution. lives~the world depends upon industry. If you have brutal reactionary in the world is actively against There has never !heen a revolution in history that no democracy in' industry, you are a slave, ruled by the Soviet Republic. was not stigrnatiz~d at the time as a process of "ex capital. Political democracy without industrial demo That is why capitalist newspapers in this country cesses" and "diSorders;" but history has always re cracy is a fraud. ·demand military intervention in Russia-to crush the ··ersed thi~ judgment. And this equally true of the So the Soviet government institutes a system of workers' republic. ,roletarian revolution in Russia, the importance of industrial democracy, in which the workers 'have cont That is why the workers of this country and the Nhjch is international and will determine the destiny rol over industry, and not the employers, the owners, world must demand: "Let Russia alone I Withraw of the world in the years to come. the capitalists. The organued workers (We the gO'lJ from Russia!" If they put over reaction in Russia, Russia is the biggest pr~lem of the world. More ernment. they will put over reaction in every country. than any other problem it affects your life, yo~r in The Soviet government is a real democracy. The terests, your aspirations as men and women who work peasants get together in villages, the workers in their AGAINST INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA for a living. . factories, and elect delegates to a 10cal'Soviet. Every (Continued from page two) The newspapers damn Russia. They lie about Rus three, months these local Soviets elect delegates to staining their names forever with such a crime all sia. They try to convince you that revolutionary Rus an All-Russian Congress of Soviets, which meets in suppressing the great Russian Revolution, which in sia is your enemy. Revolutionary Russia is not your Moscow. This 'l\.l1-Russian Congress, elected every spite of many blunders, is still an admirable force of enemy. Revolutionary Russia is' your friend, tihe ·three months, is the suprime governm~t authority idealism and progress. !friend of all men and women who work for a living. in Russia. It elects the members of the Council of '¥!e' will not win the war by killing the Russian The )yorkers and peasants of Russia are suffering, People's Commissaires, the executive organ of the Revolution. By committing such a crime we shall are fighting, are dying, not alone in their own cause, government, and a Central Committee Which sits per- not accomplish the task towards civilization which but. in the cause of the workers of the world. . manently in Moscow during the period elapsing be the Allies have set before them, and we shall not real The newspapers lie, but in their very lies they show tween sessions ·~f the All-Russian Congress. Lenin ize a democratic and just peace, the principles of what a big thing is ·the Russian Revolution. They and Trotzky and the others, including the Central which have been enunciated by our Socialist Party confess that the Russian Revolution is a danger, the Committee, malre a report; if their work has b(en sa and so eloquently developed by Wilson. greatest danger, to the tyrants of industry and capital tisfactory, they are re-elected, if flOt, they are throu.,. The Ministers of the Entente, misinformed .through everywhere; and by that fact the Russian Revolution out, and new per.sons elected in Iheir place. the blindness of their Intelligence Service, were in is the comrade of the men and women everywhere Is this despotism? It is real democracy, it is the a position to easily delude the masses of workingmen, who are ,the ..... ictims of the tyranny of industry and workers themselves making the government: By means :and now direct them against the power of the Soviets. capital. of such a government the workers are to ret1lue But the day will come when the lies will be swept The Russian Revolution marks the end of the old able freedom, industrial democrtJey and the cOfJtrol of their aside and the truth proclaimed. What bitter reproa world of Capitalism and the beginning of the new ches will then be addressed to the guilty governments world of Socialism. It is the greatest departure in the own lives in their own way. for not having known better, or not having wanted world's history, greater than dIe .French Revolution. Th~ Soviet Republic has given the land .to the pea to know better. For the first time in all history, the common people, sants, the factories to the wdrkers-preparing the What resentment, what hatred will accumulate, and the workers and peasants, are in absolute control of industrial democracy of Socialism. what terrible and unnecessary fights are in store for a nation, a nation of 160,000,1000 people, using the Private ownership in land has been destroyed. The the future! But the crime will be irreparable I New land belongs to all the peasants and any person fit and government in the interest of the workers of Russia, ruins will not make old ruins look less ugly. , willing -to work eansecure land. But no person can and of the world. Men like you who have helped so forcefully in the own land, or employ hired labor. The peasants get This is why the newspapers, which represent the intellectual and moral development of my generation, together in tHtir local Soviet, and elect a Land Com predatory interests of capital, He about the Russian have the power to prevent this. It is also their duty mittee. This Committee regulates the distribution and Revolution, about the Boisheviki, about the Soviet 1\ccept, Citizen Romain Rolland, my fraternal an Republic. This is why you should not :tJolieve these tilling of land in its district. It is the co-operative devoted sentiments. lies; for these iies are against your interests as much organ of the peasants, and all together work together as against the interests of the wotkers of Russia. to produce. All the land in Russia (including mines Capt. Jacques Sadoul, Don't he deceived. The truth-the truth about the and forests, etc.), belongs to all the people in Russia, French Military Mission, Moscow. workers' revolution in Russia-shall make you free! used to make the people prosperous and happy, and July 14, 1918. . The il11portant thing to remember a·bout Russia is life worth living, instead of making profits and big that there have been two revolutions there since March fortunes for a few .persons while the great mass of :\ CO\1\ld\ of So\(li~r"l ha!\ hern organized in the :lrIn\' I917-and that these two revolutions are absolutely the people live in poverty and misery. (;('rm:lO at the frc.r:t, and is to suhmit its de- different in character, and are fighting for control. The Soviet government h:\s introduced worker's 1I1and!l to Fi~ld-~r arshal lIilld,~nburG'. Front and r~:Ir The first revolution was a revolution against the control of industry. This means that the boss is no the Revolution is conquering. Czar. The Czar and his blood-stained government longer the boss, but that the workers are in control was overthrown. A new government was established- of the means of life. The Socialists in Berlin have sei7cd the capitali~t a republican government, a bourgeois republic, in 'Dhis is the way this wonderful system works: newspapcrs and converted them into organs of the which the capitalists and employers of labor governed All the workers in a factory elect a Factory Com Revolution. This is perhaps the Ar&t dent in prival~ ins~ead of the nobility. mittee. This Factory Committee is in charge of the property. ,Instead o! defending tyranny and Imperial. The government was' changed, buf that was all. iactory-not the owner. Everything that is done must i!m, thes~ftewspapel'l win now promote revolutionary The peasants didn't ..-et control over .the fand. The have the! approval of this Factory Committee. democracy and Socialism,