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Lenin We are reprinting below the famous Letter to American banner of peace, the banner of Socialism over the Workingmen, the first direct word to come to the American world. What wonder that we are hated by the cap- proletariat from the great leader of the- world proletarian italist class the world over! But this hatred of im- revolution, N. Lenin. It is now over seven years since it perialism and the sympathy of the class-conscious first reached this country and was made public to the workers of all countries give us assurance of the American workingclass. Its political vitality is so great, the righteousness of our cause. profound significance of its lessons so powerful and so en- He is no Socialist who cannot understand that during, that now, after seven years of struggle and two one cannot and must not hesitate to bring even that years without our great leader, there can still be no more greatest of sacrifices, the sacrifice of territory, that appropriate message to the American worbingclass from one must be ready to accept even military defeat at Vladimir Lenin than these words. the hands of imperialism, in the interests of victory —Editor, Workers Monthly. over the bourgeoisie, in the interests of a transfer of power to the working class. For the sake of Moscow, August 20, 1918. "their" cause, that is for the conquest of world- power, the imperialists of England and Germany nOMRADES: A Russian Bolshevik who par- have not hesitated to ruin a whole row of nations, ticipated in the revolution of 1905 and for from Belgium to Servia to Palestine to Mesopota- many years afterward lived in your country has of- mia. Shall we then hesitate to act in the nameiof fered to transmit this letter to you. I have grasped the h'beration of the workers of the'world from the this opportunity joyfully, for the revolutionary pro- yoke of capitalism, in the name of a general-honor- letariat of America—in so far as it is the enemy of able peace; shall we wait until we can find a way American imperialism—is destined to perform an that entails no sacrifice; shall we be afraid to begin important task at this time... the fight until an easy victory is assured; shall we Had the Anglo-French and American bourgeo- place the integrity and safety of this "fatherland" isie accepted the Soviet invitation to participate in created by the bourgeoisie over the interests of the peace negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, instead of international socialist revolution? ... leaving Russia to the mercy of brutal Germany, a The great Russian revolutionist, Tchernychew- just peace without annexations and indemnities, a ski, once said: Political activity is not as smooth peace based upon complete equality could have as the pavement of the Newski Prospect. He is no been forced upon Germany, and millions of lives revolutionist who would have the revolution of the might have been saved. Because they hoped to re- proletariat only under the "condition" that it pro- establish the Eastern front by once more drawing ceed smoothly and in an orderly manner, that the us into the whirlpool of warfare, they refused to proletarians of all countries immediately go into attend peace negotiations and gave Germany a free action, that guarantees against defeat be given be- hand to cram its shameful terms down the throat forehand, that the revolution go forward along the of the Russian people. It lay in the power of the broad, free, straight path to victory, that there shall Allied countries to make the Brest-Litovsk negotia- not be here and there the heaviest sacrifices, that tions the forerunner of a general peace. It well we shall not have to lie in wait in besieged fortresses, becomes them to throw the blame for the Russo- shall not have to climb up along the narrowest paths, German peace upon our shoulders!.... the most impassable, winding, dangerous mountain The workers of the whole world, in whatever roads. He is no revolutionist, he has not yet freed country they may live, rejoice with us and sym- himself from the pedantry of bourgeois intellec- pathize with us, applaud us for having burst the tualism, he will fall back, again and again, into the iron ring of imperialistic agreements and treaties, camp of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie. • for having dreaded no sacrifice, however great, to They are little more than imitators of ••the free ourselves, for having established ourselves as bourgeoisie, these gentlemen who delight in hold- a socialist republic, even so rent asunder and plun- ing up to us the "chaos" of the revolution, the "des- dered by German imperialists, for having raised the truction" of industry, the unemployment, the lack 148 THE WORKERS MONTHLY FEBRUARY. 1926 149 .#•I;' of food. Can there 'be anything more hypocritical problems of humanity be solved by struggle and the American people gives me this confidence, this manity. It is not to be expected that the working than such accusations from people who greeted and war. conviction. class which has been exploited and forcibly held We are accused of having brought devastation down by the clutches of want, of ignorance and supported the imperialistic war and made common The best representatives of the American pro- degradation for centuries should conduct its revolu- cause with Kerensky when he continued the war? letariat—those representatives who have repeated- upon Russia. Who is it that makes these accusa- Is not this imperialistic war the cause of all our ly given expression of their full solidarity with us, tions? The train-bearers of the bourgeoisie, of that tion without mistakes. The dead body of bour- misfortune? The revolution that was born by the the Bolsheviki—are the expression of this revolu- same bourgeoisie that almost completely destroyed geois society cannot simply be put into a coffin and war must necessarily go on through the terrible tionary tradition in the life of the American people.