The papers of Monday published a report of a speech
by Lenin at Moscow in which he made some choice remarks about the British working man. After stating that Russia had every- where " her advanced guards " for the purpose of creating " an International Proletarian Soviet Republic," he went on to say that the worst enemy of Bolshevism in Great Britain was the " opportunist, aristocratic working class." The aim of Soviet Russia, he declared, should be " to strengthen the communistic minority against this class." That is to say, the decent working man with a proper respect for himself and a proper regard to the conditions under which he works is to give way to the rag, tag and bobtail, to the " corner boys " and all the frothy-worded, shallow-pated people who do not under- stand that in accepting Lenin's doctrines they are marking themselves down for industrial slavery.
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