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"This Election Day" by STALIN (Aug 20, 1917)
Source: Works, Vol. 3, March - October, 1917
Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954
marxistsfr.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1917/08/20.htm
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"You have before you, first of all, Milyukov's party, the Party of Popular Freedom. That party champions the interests of the landlords and capitalists. It is opposed to the workers, peasants and soldiers, for it is against workers' control of industry, against the transfer of the landed estates to the peasants, and in favour of the death penalty for soldiers at the front...
next, the defencists, the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionary parties. These parties champion the interests of the well-to-do small proprietors of town and country. That is why every time the class struggle assumes a decisive character they are to be found in the same camp as the landlords and capitalists against the workers, peasants and soldiers.
Our Party is the only one that stands for a revolutionary struggle against the landlords and capitalists;
Our Party is the only one that stands for the immediate transfer of the landed estates to the Peasant Committees;
Our Party is the only one that stands for workers' control of industry in opposition to all the capitalists;
Our Party is the only one that stands for a democratic organization of commodity exchange between town and country in opposition to the profiteers and marauders;
Our Party is the only one that stands for the complete liquidation of counter-revolution in the rear and at the front;
Our Party is the only one that staunchly protects the revolutionary organizations of the workers, peasants and soldiers;
Our Party is the only one that wages a resolute and revolutionary fight for peace and brotherhood among nations;
Our Party is the only one that fights determinedly and steadfastly for the conquest of power by the workers and poor peasants;
Our Party, and our Party alone, is free from the stigma of having supported the death penalty at the front.
That is why the bourgeois and landlords detest our Party so heartily."
~STALIN
"This Election Day" by STALIN (Aug 20, 1917)
Source: Works, Vol. 3, March - October, 1917
Publisher: Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954
marxistsfr.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1917/08/20.htm
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"You have before you, first of all, Milyukov's party, the Party of Popular Freedom. That party champions the interests of the landlords and capitalists. It is opposed to the workers, peasants and soldiers, for it is against workers' control of industry, against the transfer of the landed estates to the peasants, and in favour of the death penalty for soldiers at the front...
next, the defencists, the Menshevik and Socialist-Revolutionary parties. These parties champion the interests of the well-to-do small proprietors of town and country. That is why every time the class struggle assumes a decisive character they are to be found in the same camp as the landlords and capitalists against the workers, peasants and soldiers.
Our Party is the only one that stands for a revolutionary struggle against the landlords and capitalists;
Our Party is the only one that stands for the immediate transfer of the landed estates to the Peasant Committees;
Our Party is the only one that stands for workers' control of industry in opposition to all the capitalists;
Our Party is the only one that stands for a democratic organization of commodity exchange between town and country in opposition to the profiteers and marauders;
Our Party is the only one that stands for the complete liquidation of counter-revolution in the rear and at the front;
Our Party is the only one that staunchly protects the revolutionary organizations of the workers, peasants and soldiers;
Our Party is the only one that wages a resolute and revolutionary fight for peace and brotherhood among nations;
Our Party is the only one that fights determinedly and steadfastly for the conquest of power by the workers and poor peasants;
Our Party, and our Party alone, is free from the stigma of having supported the death penalty at the front.
That is why the bourgeois and landlords detest our Party so heartily."
~STALIN
