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ABOUT THE RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKI" |
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The following article, reprinted
from the New York World is an
interpertation of the Russan situa
tion from tiie peculiar standpoint
of a Russian revolutionist, a close
acquantaince of Leon Tritsky, who.
although not a "Bolshevikl,” sym
pathises in every way with the pres
ent Provisional Government's atti
tude toward war and peace. Alex
ander Trachtenberg, the writer is j
now director of the Bureau of Re
search in the Rand School of Social
Science in New York, and. the
school's lecturer on the labor move
ment and labor legislation. He is
a graduate of Trinity Cologe and
Yale University. He was a student
in Russia at the outbreak of the
Japanese War, became a soldier, was
decorated by the government for
bravery, and was later imprisioned
for taking a prominent part in the
revolution of 1905. It was during;
that r volution that he first met
trotsky. who was then Vive-Presi
dent of the first Council of‘Work
er's and Soldier’s Delegates.—Note
of Editor.
(By Alexand r Trachtenberg)
It is the proper tiling today In
America to refer to the situation in
Russia as an infinite bedlam: a
vast Territory, with, 189,000,000
once human beings possessed of the
devil and given over to unreasoning
rule of hysteria and caos. It is a
place, we are told, which lias sud
denly become detached from the
natural laws that govern the evo
lutions of nations, a country where
disorder seems to be looked upon
as the supreme virtue, and where
revolution may bo expected hence
forth daily, not because of any par
ticular politic*! aim to be attained,
but because of some evil impulse to
revolute.
Russia is not that kind or a
place. There never was such a
place and there never will be, and
t will do no one any good to as
sume that there is. Cause and el
fect still hold sway in Russia. None
of the revolutions or the counter
revolutins which have happened
there are any less intelligible than
our American Revolution or our Civil
War. Am rcans, as a rule, do not
grasp the meaning ol' these Russian
uprisings—in the first place, be
cause there has been such a suc
cessful effort to keep the explana
tion from them, and in the second
place because Americans are so
commonly committed to tH■ • assump
tion that history is made by “Great
Men.”
A NKW FAMILY OF RK VOLU
TION'S
When the Czar was overthrown,
America applauded. One of this
country's chief beasts was that she
had no Czar and that act of revo
lution seemed neither anarchistic
nor insane. But who* Miliukoff
was unseated a few weeks later
Am rica gasped. America had never
thought of unseating her Miliukoff a,
and the act could not be under
stood. For exactly the same reason
i ho subsequent overthrow of Keren
sky could not bo understood, for the
same forces that placed Kerensky
nx command took that command
away, and they are forces which have
never functioned in history before.
The American idea of revolution
is the American Revolution; or, at
best the French Revolution—the
politcal change which oceurod in
the transition from feudalism (o
capitalism.
These revolutions, however, were
pot or tlie same family of revo
lutions as the one in Russia which
began with the unseating of the
Czar. For although the working
people did most of the fighting in
these revolutions, they were not,
strictly speaking, working class
revolutions.
If the Russian Revolution is to
understood, it must be classified
not with the series of revolutions
which resulted in the existing order
of society but as the first Of a new
series whose aim it is to sweep that
order away.
Even when Americans began to
accept Kerensky they did not ap
preciate this fundamental reason
for his selection. The general ex
planation given for his support
was that ho was the “strong man''
needed in the particular crisis which
Russia faced. The Interests which
were supporting Kerensky in his
controversies with the Council ot
Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputies
were never under this delusion. To
them Kerensky was merely the
choice of two evils, and they de
serted him at tho first faint chance
to turn Russia over to more con
servative rule. But the strong-man
theory of history was so deeply
rooted in the American mind that
this conflict of economic interests
could not be grasped. It was easier
to look upon Kerensky as a “strong
man-' and Lenine as a "bail man”,
and let it go at that.
SCENE IS CHANGED
Then surrenly we become aware
that tho “bad man”, the “German
spy” had overthrown Kerensky.
Just how he did it we never took
pains to ascertain, in something the
same way, perhaps, the villian us
ually dots such things on Broadway,
t by telling dirty lies about the hero
to all the “gooc.” people in the
company;— those good people, by
the way, always being so dense and
unsuspecting that they never fail
to let him get away with it. Amer
icans shuddered and wept while the
melodrama went on, but they seemed
to be convinced that is wasn’t real
I and that the villian would be pun
ished in the last act.
Such a view gets us no where.
It explains nothing. It con
tradicts every proved .scientific
principle. It is the diagnosis
ot the dark ages, the virdict
of superstition, the ipse dixit
of those who either cannot or
will not look the facts suuare
ly in the face.
The facts are not hard to un
destrand. Under the Czar the
masses of the Russian people had
become more than anti-Ozar. They
had come to antagonize the whole
system of exploitation, including the
exploitation of the working class
by those who happen to own land
and capital of the world. Their
Russian mind was overwhelmingly
Socialist. They had their differ
ences in regard to tactics, but they
were one in their ultimate aims.
The Social Revolutionists concerned
themselves mostly with the prob
lems of the peasants, the land prob
lem. The Social Democratic t.abor
Party concerned itself mostly wit’.^
the problems ofthe industrial work
ers. There was no fundamental op
position between the two, nor be
tween the two factions of the latter
party, the Mensheviks and the Bol
sheviks.
NKAV RUSSIA vs OIL MPROMACY
Bolshevik! does not mean bad
man. It designated that faction ot
the party which seemingly most trn
i portant to put through the whole
I Socialist program. The Mensheviks
: wore more patient, more opportunis
tic, more practical, but less radical,
in their acceptance of the complete
Socialist ideal. I was a Menshe
vik. Leon Trotsky was neither. He
belonged to a small group whose
aim it was to bring the two factions
into harmony. Lenine wa.3 the ac
cepted leader of the Bolsheviks.
These revolutionaVy parties had
one interest in common with the
more progressive capitalists of Rus
sia. That was the overthrow of the
Czar. Beyond that their aims were
different. The capitalists wanted
freedom to extend business and
trade. They didn’t want to be
hampered by stupid fudalism, but
they were generally in favor of
what is called an imperialistic pro
gram, and accepted tne war as
theirs.
The parties of the working class
es had no interest in the imperialis
tic program. They formed the rank
and file of soldiers, who had not
even been consulted about the war
and didn’t know why it was being
fought. To them it was the Czar’s
war, and their only part ni it was to
fight or be shot. Now the Czar had
been overthrown, and while they
would fight a peoples war, if neces
sary, they would have to know just
what they were fighting for. So
they organized their Council of
Workmen and Soldiers’ Deputies,
who made demands upon tlio Pro
from the Allies a statement of war
aims and to. initiate for general,
negotiative peace.
(Concluded next issue)
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To W. W. Sale, Frank Kolash, P. H.
Watt, N. Galvin, W. D. Steward,
and W. Packwood, your heirs,
executors, assigns or personal
representatives.
You, and each or you, are hereby
notified that 1 have expended in
labor and improvements, the sum
of one hundred dollars ($100.00),
each year for the years of 1915 1916
on the Florence Association Placer
mining claim situated between Won
der and Holyoke In the Cape Nome
Recording Precinct, Aiaska, note of
location of which is , recorded in
Vol. 123, page 12? of said precinct
I Records.
j Tho above amount has been ex
' pended in order to hold said claims
| under the provisions of the law con
I cerning annual labor upon mining
claims, being the amount required
to hold said claim.
And you, and each of you, are
further notified that if within ninety
days after the last publication of
this notice you have failed to con
tribute your portion of said expend
iture, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the
! undersigned, your co-owner, under
section 2324 Revised Statutes of
the United States.
CHAS. A. VOGEL,
i TT Co-owner.
■ Date of first publ., April 4, 1918.
Date of last publ., July 4, 1918.
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