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...Finland Station in Leningrad is the place where Lenin got off the train on the night of April 3, 1917, to take charge of the Russian revolution. There in the cold, draughty Tsar's Room of the depot, he stood looking uncomfortable while newly elevated bigwigs welcomed him with speeches and with a bouquet that he handled as gingerly as if it had been a bomb. The phrase "to the Finland Station" has a symbolic meaning, implies something like a rendezvous with destiny...
...existence of Dirba. These remarkable denials of reality reached a new high-in Washington a man brought suit against the Dies Committee, charging that the Dies Committee itself did not exist.* No Dies, no Dirba, no Krivitsky, no trade unions, no influence, no importance, no history, no Marx, no Lenin, no Stalin-to many an observer it seemed that the Communist Party was just about ready to declare that there was no Communist Party either...
...Soviet War Commissar Kliment Voroshilov, soon to visit Berlin, Il Corriere Padano cracked: "If Lenin first, and Stalin afterward set eyes on him, it was simply because they judged him an exceptional gangster. For us, Voroshilov and his equals, like all carrion of Bolshevik Russia, do not interest us a bit. If among themselves they exalt or destroy one another, that is their affair. At worst there will be one less criminal going around the world...
...demonstrates that by 1914 the working class had almost universally developed a tradeunion, not a revolutionary, point of view; that the stronger the union movement became, the less revolutionary were its purposes; that the proletariat's size was reduced by machinery, its miseries by reform. Seeing all this, Lenin did not deduce that Marx had been wrong. Instead he formed the Communist Party to lead the working class, not to what it seemed to want but to what Marx had decided it ought to want. And to win the Russian Revolution, Lenin had to diverge from Marxism again...
...Lenin's great experiment established a dictatorship, nominally "of the proletariat," actually of the Communist Party and eventually of Stalin alone. New class distinctions arose between workers, managers and bureaucrats. The Soviet Government has so far shown no signs of withering away-though Communists expect it eventually to do so. Meanwhile outside Russia the sometimes heroic Communist International has been effective in nothing so much as in scaring the pants off the middle class...