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Paul Robeson Sr — Part 24

101 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: Nov 4, 1949 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Paul Robeson Sr · 100 pages OCR'd
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‘ The third great beteot deitlded vy the Moscow eprising refers . to attacks and the organization ef forces for the uprising. Filitary attacks depend on the level of nilitary technique - ... Military technique, now, ie aot the sane as it was in the middle ef the 19th Tentury. It would be folly for crovds to contend ageinet artillery ani defend barricades with revolvers. Kauteky wee right when he wrote that Moscow had inaugurated sew ‘barricades teactias', These tactice ware the tactica of guerilla warfare. The organisation which such tactics demand is that of ten aaa, three men or tvo mex detachaenta....... Stody carefully the story ef the Moscow urrising, gentlemen, and you will understand what connection exists between ‘five mea detachments’ and the question of 'new barricades tacticals s BOUECH: ‘THE RXVOLUTION OF 1905 by ¥. I, Lenin, p. 36. ° International Publishers, How Yerk, How York. net oo foe ~~: r- oe _ Kou should take note, an I go along waking these quotations, the Communists alvays speak in their written material about the workers, which they call the Proieteriat, The workers are expected er charged with doing this or that, They d not, of course, expect the werkore to scheme we ineurrectionary techniques er organizations ta carry through an insurrection. Lenin himself, agein and again = that the workers are incapable of that much Imow how on this subject. ‘hen they @pesk in this connection about the workers, that is just the usual desopian langue which they use to avoid speaking in the first person. What they actually mean is that the Communist Party organizes all these thines. Now to the actual method of ineurrectionary fighting as taught in the Moscow colleges, ds Lenin indicates in the quotation I just made, the povalar notion of insurrections of the rast ia not at all what the Sommunist-crg- nized {neurrect ions are based on. The Sommunists base their insurrection organisation on numerous tig Little guerilla groupe of a Sommario tyze which attack thelr selected objectives % calculated deceit and utter surprise. it may seem fantastic to > you 3 if r nay that on the basis of the insurrection — techniques taught in Moscow, a city like Sew York could be seized from the inside a force of less than 10,000 men organised in the fashion that I will indicate; "aad, if the Arey ‘ie disaffocted, as the Pussian Army was at the time of the Comsrar . Seircre. ef power in Pussla, auch a city ‘gould be held and the new Government, dbase woo the insurrection, sould consolidate itself. ate "wee Communist Party monbership in ew York State as of 1946 wes 2 3,097 nenber pearly ‘wo thirds of whom live within the Few York “ity arse. Only 20¢ of the Paz menbershtp are as a rele considered fit to be included inta a combat type of organization. The number present in the Security Guard formtion oorresponis to apzroxinately this percentage. - . : ; Petrograd, forser Capital of Pusele, now known as Leningrad, with the Govern- ment having §&, 000 troozs plua police at ite disposal, wae actually taken and held bd ,200 men shusly, sreanised. Hanbure, a city of 4.500, 000 people, was taken is 1925 and held for theo. ays yw m0 nen. sernteet according to thaes methods; | . . 7S <9 SBS apna re le ae ears peer ars Se ee oot ce tat eee 2S ee ae Coen ot oe pees lr eS, ep ee ot ee
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