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 to hand the land over to the peasants. Terrified by the insurrection, the whole Socialist Revolutionary clique, up to and including the Dielo Naroda, now proclaims the necessity of giving the land to the peasants. Here, attested by facts, is the justification and the success of Bolshevism. The insurrection was necessary to teach conduct to the Bonapartistes and their lackeys of the Pre-parliament.

The result is a fact. Now whatever happens, a fact is a solid thing. And this factual argument in favour of the insurrection is stronger than all the bad reasons with which our pessimist politicians conceal their inquietude and their fear.

If the agrarian insurrection was not an event of national political importance, the socialist revolutionary minions of the Pre-parliament would not proclaim that it was necessary to give the land to the peasants.

The Rabotchi Pont has already drawn attention to another excellent political and revolutionary result of the peasant insurrection. This is the arrivals of barley at the railway stations in the province of Tambov. Here again, my fanatical friends, is an argument which shows you that insurrection is the only way to save the country from famine and disaster. While the Social-Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks, who are betraying the country, are grumbling, threatening, writing resolutions and promising to feed the starving by calling together the Constituent Assembly, the people themselves set to work and settled the food question in the Bolshevik way, by insurrection against the great landowners, the capitalists and the monopolists.

And the magnificent results of this solution (the only real one) of the food question have been admitted by the bourgeois press itself, by the Roushaia Volia, among others, which published a communique stating that the stations in the Tambov province are literally blocked by cereals—since the rising of the peasants.

To doubt that the majority of the people are now with the Bolsheviks and following them towards the future, is to hesitate disgracefully and to reject in fact all the principles of proletarian revolutionism; it is to abjure Bolshevism.

"We are not strong enough to take control, but neither are the bourgeoisie strong enough to overrun the Constituent Assembly."