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Open Letter to Comrade Lenin
Herman Gorter
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Open Letter to Comrade Lenin
Introduction
Basis Mistaken.
Two Arguments Refuted.
Difference Between Russia and W. Europe.
Poor Peasants Decisive Factor.
Nothing to Offer Peasants.
Industrial Workers Stand Alone.
The proletariat in Western Europe stands alone.
II. The Question of the Trade Unions
Waning of TU Influence
The Harder Task of Europe.
Build on New Foundations.
The Worker has Power.
Industrial Workers Decide.
Struggle in England Essential.
Executive Committee’s Opportunism.
Hail the Rank and File Movement.
Failure of Second International.
Counter-revolutionary Trade Unions.
Russian Tactics Useless in Western Europe.
III. Parliamentarism
Subjects of Bourgeois Democracy.
Workers Win Rights for Possessing Class.
An Example Needed.
Big Numbers of no Avail.
A Great Day.
Amongst the Social Patriots.
Lenin’s Three Arguments.
Action Speaks Louder than Words.
An Uncongenial Task.
What does this prove, Comrade?
Cause of Revolution’s Delay.
All Classes Fight the Proletariat.
Opposing Capitalist Forces Unite to Defeat Revolution.
Workshop, not Parliament, the Battle-ground.
A United Proletariat Necessary.
Menshevist Tactics would Ruin Proletariat.
The Left Wing Tactics.
Lenin’s Third Argument.
Labour Movement in False Grooves.
IV. Opportunism in the Third International
Feeble Criticism.
V. Conclusion
Still Need for Propaganda.
Character of Western European Revolution.
Why German Workers must not be Defeated.
Crisis is Nearing.
Left-Winger to Free Workers’ Minds.
Herman Gorter
Open Letter to Comrade Lenin