were right in overthrowing bourgeois power in 1917. I have no doubt that you are of the same opinion. But the question arises, whom did the proletariat actually overthrow in 1917? History tells us, and facts go to prove that in October, 1917, the proletariat overthrew the Mensheviks and Social-Revolutionaries, as it was precisely the Mensheviks and Social-Revolutionaries, Kerensky and Chernov, Gotz and Lieber, Dan and Tseretelli, Abramovitch and Avksentiev, who were then in power. And what are the Menshevik and Social-Revolutionary Parties? They are parties of the Second International.
It therefore follows that in accomplishing the October Revolution, the proletariat of the USSR overthrew the parties of the Second International. This, perhaps, is not very pleasing to some Social-Democrats, but it is an undeniable fact, comrades, over which it would be absurd to argue.
Consequently, it follows that at the moment of proletarian revolution, it is possible and necessary to overthrow a Menshevik and Social Revolutionary government, so that proletarian power may triumph. But if they may be overthrown, why cannot they be arrested if they go over openly and determinedly to the camp of bourgeois counter-revolution? Do you think that the overthrow of the Mensheviks and Social-Revolutionaries is a milder act than their imprisonment? One cannot consider the policy of the October Revolution correct unless he also considers the inevitable results of that policy correct. One of the two, either the October Revolution was wrong, in which case the imprisonment of Mensheviks and Social-Revolutionaries is also wrong, or the October Revolution was right, in which case, one cannot regard the imprisonment of Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries wrong. Logic must take its course.
Question 5.—Why has not the correspondent of the Social-Democratic Press Bureau been permitted to enter the USSR?
Answer.—Because the Social-Democratic Press abroad, particularly the "Vorwärts," excels in its
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