V. I.

Lenin

On June 6 Novoye Vremya said:

“ Why is it that in these days of freedom this black hand has
reached out from somewhere and is moving the puppets of Russian
democracy? Lenin! But his name is legion. At all cross-roads, a
Lenin pops up. And it is quite obvious that strength lies not in
Lenin himself but in the receptiveness of the soil to the seeds
of anarchy and madness.”

Anarchy, as we see it, is the making of scandalous profits from
war supplies by the capitalists. Madness, as we see it, is the
waging of a war for the division of annexed territories, for the
division of capitalist profits. And if these views find sympathy
“at all cross-roads", it is because they properly express the
interests of the proletariat, the interests of all working
people and all the exploited.

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