It is 90 years since the proletarian revolution
reached its tragic culmination point with the struggles of 1918 and
1919 in Germany. After the heroic seizure of power by the Russian
proletariat in October
1917, the central battlefield of the world revolution shifted to
Germany. There, the decisive struggle was waged and lost. The world
bourgeoisie
has always wanted to sink these events into historical oblivion. To the
extent
that it cannot deny that struggles took place, it pretends that they
only aimed
at "peace" and "democracy" - at the blissful conditions presently
reigning in
capitalist Germany. The goal of the series of articles we are beginning
here is to show
that the revolutionary movement in Germany brought the bourgeoisie in
the central country of European capitalism
close to the brink of the loss of its class rule. Despite its defeat,
the
revolution in Germany, like that in Russia, is an encouragement to us
today. It reminds us that it is not only
necessary but possible to topple the rule of world capitalism.