PREFACE
At the wish of eighty delegates who had come to the USSR for the October celebrations from Germany, France, Austria, Cecho-Slovakia, Denmark and Esthonia, Comrade Stalin gave them an interview on November 5, 1927. The interview lasted six hours. A stenographic report is given in this pamphlet.
The tenth anniversary of the October revolution—whether its enemies want it or not—has demonstrated the world importance of the October revolution, whether the enemies of the October revolution want it or not—and they do not want it—the tenth anniversary has deeply stirred the entire international Labour Movement. Whilst leaders, the upper stratum of the Labour bureaucracy, the petty bourgeois lackeys of the bourgeoisie in the Labour Movement—the MacDonalds, Thomases, Snowdens, Hickses, Renaudels, Vanderveldes, Hilferdings, Kautskys, Bauers, etc., have chosen America as their Mecca, whence they learn the methods of SUBJECTING THE WORKING CLASS TO THE BOURGEOISIE, THE LOWER STRATA, the genuine proletarians, in spite of their formal adherence to reformism, are drawn irresistibly by their class instinct to the October celebrations in Moscow to learn the methods by which the workers can be liberated from the bourgeoisie, by which THE BOURGEOISIE CAN BE OVERTHROWN and proletarian Socialism can be built up. The gulf between reformism and the masses is becom-
