LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Tsarist Russia was an immense reserve force for western imperialism,
not only in that it gave free entry to foreign capital which controlled
decisive branches of Russian economy like fuel and metallurgy, but also
that it could furnish millions of soldiers to the western imperialists.
Russian army, 12 million strong; shed its blood on imperialist fronts to
safeguard the staggering profits of Anglo-French capitalists. Tsarism was
the agent of western imperialism in squeezing hundreds of millions from
the population by way of interest on loans floated in Paris, London, etc.,
faithful ally in partitioning Turkey, Persia, China, etc. Was not Russia an
essential factor in this war? Joe is speaking of the war that had occurred
before he wrote his little brochure. As to this war: some estimates give
30 million as the cost to Russia, 30 million human lives.
The Leninist theory of the proletarian revolution is based on three
fundamental issues.
First thesis, the domination of finance capital in the advanced capitalist
countries, the issue of stocks and bonds as the principal operation of
finance capital, the export of capital to the sources of raw materials,
which is one of the bases of imperialism, the OMNIPOTENCE of a
financial oligarchy, a consequence of the dominations of financial
capital. All these reveal the crudely parasitic character of monopolist
capitalism, make the yoke of the capitalist trusts and syndicates 100
times more burdensome.
Perhaps Col. McCormick had better get the pamphlet and read it. Tenth
anniversary edition, International Publishers, 100,000 copies at 10 cents,
probably reprinted dozens of times during the past decade, as they will
have already celebrated a 20th anniversary.
The Col. has heard recently, i.e., in the course of the early spring of this
year, of the American Constitution. I dunno whether he has yet passed
the stages of his beardless youth, eh, the MENTAL stages. If he had