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It was this layer of labour artistocrats and bureaucrats who delivered the mass workers to slaughter. The interests of the great mass or workers, nowever, st lay with the socialist revolution. Therefore new parties had to be built to break the hold of the bureaucracy An opposing view was put forward by Karl Kaut sky. His most important argument - since it is still heard even on the left today was to claim that the mass of workers were just as backward and just chauvinistic leaders, He declared that the idea of a split in the working class was Simple ment was all that was needed to resolve the dif ferences which would therefore be overcome in the passage of time.
Lenin was adamant: It is a lie when anybody says (Kautsky included! that the THESSES letarians have shifted to chauvinism' It was the bureaucracy that was responsible for ruling class ideas in the labour move ment. They had to be driven out.
History decided the question. In 1917, Lenin's Bolshevik party led the Russian revolution in the teeth of the opposition of the Mensheviks. In 1919 the bureaucrats of the German Democratic Party drownin blood, using troops and fascist bands to murde thousands of German workers including Rost Luxembourg and others The labour bureaucracy is the chief obstacle on the road to SOME SETTOES. The only way to overcome it is revolutionary parties rooted in the working class
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