[Marxism] "Drawing a Balance Sheet On the Million Worker March, " by Bill Onasch

[David Walters <dwalters@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Leo Robinson actually spoke well into the last half of the Rally. I
don't think Leo spoke at all in the first half, because all the Local
10 folks wanted to speak toward the end when they believed,
mistakingly, the rally would be at it's height. In fact, Clearance
Thomas was the last speaker.

David Walters
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It is not a matter of this or that secondary question of tactics, but
of the capacity for action of the proletariat, the strength to act, the
will to power of socialism as such. In this, Lenin and Trotsky and
their friends were the first, those who went ahead as an example to the
proletariat of the world; they are still the only ones up to now who
can cry with Hutten: "I have dared!"

This is the essential and enduring in Bolshevik policy. In this sense
theirs is the immortal historical service of having marched at the head
of the international proletariat with the conquest of political power
and the practical placing of the problem of the realization of
socialism, and of having advanced mightily the settlement of the score
between capital and labor in the entire world. In Russia, the problem
could only be posed. It could not be solved in Russia. And in this
sense, the future everywhere belongs to "Bolshevism."          --Rosa
Luxemberg, 1918.
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