Title | Why I side with the Social Revolution |
Alternative Title | Pourquoi je me suis rallié à la formule de la révolution sociale |
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Publisher | Publishing office of the Communust International |
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Date | 1920 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 85 pages; 19 cm. |
Original Item Location | DK265.17.M3713 1920 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304506~S11 |
Original Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection | Socialist and Communist Pamphlets |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections |
Use and Reproduction | This item is in the public domain and may be used freely. |
Note | Translation of: Pourquoi je me suis rallié à la formule de la révolution sociale. |
File Name | index.cpd |
Title | Image 82 |
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File Name | uhlib_25190168_081.jpg |
Transcript | 80 •• i gain millions and millions of people without end/ It had become clear that, even if it succeeded one day in concluding an artificial agreement which would permit of its members putting- tin^-signatures simultaneously at the-bottom of another valueless „scr#p of paper", the ,,Peace Conference" was ana could not help becoming more and more incapable of meriting its narne^ of giving to the world the promised peace, precisely because it was condemned to remain an ever greater stranger to*the interests and the will of the people iu the name of which it pretended to speak. Profoundly dejected and wounded by contact wilh this hideous truth, I began to understand, for the first tirrfe, the meaning of Bolshevism, that all the Governments of Europe were execrating and wished to destroy. At a moment wherf all was crumbling around me, when everywhere only nihility was to be seen, I perceived, its luminous star, coming from the horizon of the Future, rising in the sky. Until then, groping blindly, feeling my way as my instinrt guided me, under the blows, so to speak, under the shock of circumstances, I had been led to understand the Workers' and Peasants'Government of Russia Exclusively from the Russian point of view,— led to understand'as something that was not artificial, that had beef! invented by German Imperialism but, on the contrary, as something that appeared «to- be the.only real force at that time existant in Russia, alone capable of effecting the territorial and moral re-grouping of the country, alone capable of saving Russia i |