Saturday, May 3, 1919 THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE Call to the Workers of the World PR ROLETARIANS! Men and Women of Labor! The revolutionary aspirations of May Day destroyed, to awaken all the physical and moral energComrades!
are magnificently expressed in this appeal of ies of humanity, and to replace hatred and dissension The revolution in Germany lias come! The mass Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz with internal solidarity, harmony, and respect for es of the soldiers who for four years were driven to slaughter for the sake of capitalistic profits: the masses Mehring and Klara Zetkin, issued Decemb every human being If of workers, who for four years were exploited, crush25, 1918.
representatives of the proletarians of all countries could but clasp hands under the banner of Socialism ed, and starved, have revolted. Prussian militarism, protection of small nations, meant capitalist profits for the purpose of making peace, then peace would be that fearful tool of oppression, that scourge of human as surely as did ours when it talked about the defence concluded in a few hours. Then there will be no disrepresentatives, and there with the most noticeable of League of Nations are but a part of the same hase opotamia, ligypt or colonies. Then there will be only whose guilty of this war, the Kaiser and the Crown brigandage that produced the peace of Brest Litovsk. one people: the twiling human beings of all races and Here as well as there the same shameless lust for tongues. Then there will be only one right: the equalSoldiers Councils have been formed everywhere.
ity all men. Then there will be only one aim: prosWorkers of all countries, we do not say that in Ger termination to exploit to the limit the brutal prepond perity and progress for everybody.
many all power actually lies in the hands of the work erance of murderous steel.
Humanity is facing the alternative: Dissolution and ing people, that the complete triumph of the proleta The Imperialism of all countries knows no under. downfall in capitalist anarchy, or regeneration through rian revolution has already been attained. There still standing, it it knows only one right capital profits; the social revolution. The hour of fate has struck.
sit in the government all those Socialists who in Aug. it knows only one language the sword; it knows only If you believe in Socialism, it is now time to show it ust, 1914, abandoned our most precious possession, one methodviolence. And if it is now talking in all by deeds. If you are Socialists, now is the time to act.
the International, who for four years betrayed the countries, in yours as well ours, about the League of Proletarians of all countries, if we now summon German working class and the International. Nations, disarmament, rights of small nations, you for a common struggle it is not done for the sake But, workers of all countries, now the German pro self determination of the peoples, it is merely using of the German capitalists who, under the label of letarian himself, speaks to you. We believe we have the customary lying phrases of the rulers for the German nation, are trying to escape the consequenthe right to appear before your forum in his name. purpose of hulling to sleep the watch fullness of the ces of their own crimes; it is being done for your sake rom the first day of this war we endeavored to do proletariat.
as well as for ours. Remember that your victorious our international duty by fighting that criminal gov Proletarians of all countries! This must be the last capitalists stand ready to suppress in blood our revernment with all our power and branding it as the war! We owe that to the twelve million murdered olution, which they fear as they do their own. You one really guilty of the war.
victims, we owe that to our children, we owe that to yourselves have not become any freer through the Now at this moment we are justified before history. humanity. victory, you have only become still more enslaved.
before the International and before the German pro Europe has been ruined by this danınable slaughter. If your ruling classes succeed in throttling the proleletariat. The masses agree with us enthusiastically, Twelve million bodies cover the grewsome scenes of tarian revolution in Germany, and in Russia, then they constantly widening circles of the proletariat share the this imperialistic crime. The flower of youth and the will turn against you with redoubled violence. Your conviction that the hour has struck for a settlement best man power of the peoples have been mowed down. capitalists kope that victory over us and over revoluwith capitalistic class rule.
Uncounted productive forces have been annihilated. tionary Russia will give them the power to scourge you But this great task cannot be accomplished by the Humanity is almost ready to bleed to death from the with a whip of scorrpions.
German proletariat alone; it can only fight and triumph unexampled blood letting of history.
Victors and Therefore the proletariat of Germany looks toward by appealing to the solidarity of the proletarians of vanquished stand at the edge of the abyss. Humanity you in this hour. Germany is pregnant with the social the whole world.
is threatened with famine, a stoppage of the entire revolution, but Socialism can only be realized by the Comrades of the belligerent countries, we are aware mechanism of production, plagues, and degeneration. proletariat of the world.
of your situation. We know full well that your gov The great criminals of this fearful anarchy, of this And therefore, we call to you: Arise for the strugernments, now that they have won the victory, are unchained chaos the ruling classes are not able to gle! Arise for action! The time for empty manidazzling the eyes of many strata of the people with control their own creation. The beast of capital that festos, platonic resolutions, and high sounding words the external brilliancy of their triumph. We know conjured up the hell of the world war is incapable is gone! The hour of action has struck for the Interthat they thus succeed through the success of the of banishing it, of restoring real order, of insuring national! We ask you to elect Workers and Soldiers murdering in making its causes and aims forgotten. bread and work, peace and civilization. justice and Councils everywhere that will seize political power, But we also know that in your countries the prole liberty, to tortured humanity and, together with lis, will restore peace.
tariat made the most fearful sacrifices of flesh and What is being prepared by the ruling classes as Not Lloyd George and Poincare, not Sonnino, Wilblood, that it is weary of the dreadful butchery, that peace and justice is only a new work of brutal force son, and Erzberger or Scheidemann, must be allowed the proletarian is now returning to his home, and is from which the hydra of oppression, hatred and fresh, to make peace. Peace must be concluded under the finding want and misery there, while fortunes amount bloody wars raises its thousand heads.
waving banner of the Socialist world revolution.
ing to billions are heaped up in the hands of a few Socialism alone is in a position to complete the great Proletarians of all countries We call upon you capitalists. He has recognized, and will continue work of permanent peace, to heal the thousand wounds to complete the work of Socialist liberation, to give recognize, that your governments, too, have carried on from which humanity is bleeding, to transform the human aspect to the disfigured world and to make the war for the sake of the big money bags. And he plains of Europe, trampled down by the passage of the true those words with which we often greeted each will further perceive thiạt your governments, when apocryphal horseman of war, into blossoming gardens, other in the old days and which we sang as we parted: they spoke of justice and civilization and of the to conjure up ten productive forces for every one And the Internationale shall be the human race!
to Bourgeois or Proletarian Dictatorship. Which?
own American and blow HE dark forces of Capitalism always avail themT By Nyemanov selves of the opportunity, at any favorable an insignificant minority over an overwhelming inajmoment, to raise a howl about the horrors of established an iron dictatorship of ority?
the bourgeois the dictatorship of the proletariat in Russia. To Rus class?
The bourgeoisie, with the aid of the press, parliasia is now added the Soviet Republics of Hungary, ments, courts and prisons, in a niost cynical and brutal When a delegation of Norwegian journalists interand Bavaria. Every opportunity and every means are manner crushes down the least move of the working viewed Lenin, in March, and asked him concerning class to better its conditions. Martial law and states used to spread condemnation and calumny. In the the suppression of freedom in Soviet Russia, Lenin of siege are not an exception but the rule in bourpress, the churces, clubs, theatres, parliaments and advised them to go to Siberia and compare the bour geois society. The so called freedom of the press courts, the bourgeoisie and the agents of the bourgeoisie hypocritically express their dictatorship there with the dictatorship of the indignation at Socialist in bourgeois society is an obvious mockery of real the fact freedom of the that, the proletariat of Russia, Hungary We know already how Admiral Kolchak, that hirepress. Consider our Bavaria having become the ruling class, it deals blowling of the Russian and Allied bourgeoisie, deals not large capitalists and financiers, possesing excellently press. The proprietors of our big newspapers are after at the Soviel Government rejects freedom inte de persone there to have to go tohipalihich the Peace Con mands of the imperialistic bourgeoisie, einem Look say these impudents lackeys of Capitalism supporters the social patriots. Kolchak suppresses paper is manufactured for them, and their own large is in the the the right to the franchise; it prosecutes and even big throws into prison those who until now were consid an eloquent example of bourgeois dictatorship in all of the press come in when the organs of ered the elite of information countries. If there is any difference between the Kol and publicity are under the vigilant eye and the rigid To be sure: the proletariat of Russia, Hungary and chak dictatorship in Siberia and the dictatorship in control of the large capitalists? As cnin phrases it, Bavaria. having become the ruling class, builds its Siberia and the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie now in policy in accordance with power in Italy, France, India and Egype, in any cap ciety is simply the freclom of the hourgeoisie to de measures which are dictated by the talistic country, the difference is purely a forinar. ceive the people.
it introduces interests of the proletariat and the poor (proletarian) And always the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is the Veedless Against the peasantry dictatorship of the hourgeoisie, the measures of the dictatorship of the propertied, privileged minority proletariat, defending the interests of all the toiling Soviet Government Hungary and against the vast majority of the people, the toiling masses of the people, has the full right to introduce class economically, politically and socially, and its own concept of the elictatorship of the the Let us take as an example the coteric of Allied Not only is this its right, it is its duty: The oppressors: 10 end the division of society into diplomats no sitting in Conference on Peace in Paris. cries of indignation classes. If the accomplishment of this requires the 1o they realize, in fact. the dictatorship of the impe of bourgcaois society against the ideas and the practice bised representatives geoisie, these measures are determined by the logic ected against not alone the proletariat, but against the ent hypocrisy and fraud of deceivers and oppresors, of the class struggle, by the dominant majority of the whole peoples (Russian, German, Hungarian. proletariat and proletarian peasantry: who for centuris have plundered the people. There When a clique of British imperialists applies violBut has the bourgeoisie the right to attack the pro ent measures to crush the Hindus, Egyptians and is no sense in arguing with them or moralizing with them. There is one answer to them proletarian letarian dictatorship when it itself everywhere has other oppressed peoples, is not this a dictatorship of dictatorship itself.
society.
תר TO Bavaria