Solomon Abramovich (Alexandr) Lozovsky Archive
1878-1952
“The Revolution is not a plaything with which one amuses oneself and gets tired of. Neither is it made to order; socialism does not fall from the skies already made. It suffices to read the history of the birth of the bourgeois order in France, to read the bourgeois historians Thiers, Taine, Sorel, Aulard and others, in order to understand what the Russian Revolution represents, which has aroused the great masses of the people. The birth of the new order is painful, very painful. The Russian worker feels it in all his daily life.
But we never look back, we look for our salvation not in the forms and relations of Western Europe, which are falling in ruins; we always look ahead, with a deep hope and a boundless faith.
Capitalist society is decomposing and only Communism can save mankind. Let the bourgeois press sneer at us, let the gentry that call themselves socialists viciously laugh at us, the Russian proletariat shall surge forward and above the sneers, for it has chosen as a watchword those great words of Dante, with which our great teacher Karl Marx ends the first volume of his “Capital”: “Go your way, and let people say what they please!” The Role of the Labor Unions in the Russian Revolution
Concerning the Expulsion from the Party of S. A. Lozovsky
Trade-Union Questions Cannon Supports Lozovsky, 1928.
Works:
Pamphlets
1920: The Role of the Labor Unions in the Russian Revolution
From the Trade Union Education League
Labor Herald Library No. 10 (1924): The World’s Trade Union Movement
Labor Herald Library No. 13 (1924): Lenin: The Great Strategist of Class War
Labor Herald Library No. 14 (1924): Lenin and the Trade Union Movement
From the Trade Union Unity League
1929: Foreword to Problems of Strike Strategy
Articles
1922: Infantile Diseases of French Trade Unionism
1932: The Struggle for the Masses in Britain
Archive maintained by Brian Reid
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