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    A Letter to American Workingmen
    A Letter to American Workingmen
    A Letter to American Workingmen
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    A Letter to American Workingmen

    By Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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    Release dateSep 1, 2009
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      A Letter to American Workingmen - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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      Title: A Letter to American Workingmen

      Author: N. Lenin

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      A LETTER TO AMERICAN WORKINGMEN

      From the Socialist Soviet Republic of Russia

      By N. LENIN

      Reprinted from THE CLASS STRUGGLE

      December, 1918

      Price—5 Cents

      NEW YORK

      THE SOCIALIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY

      431 PULASKI ST., BROOKLYN, N. Y.

      December, 1918

      A Letter to American Workingmen

      By N. Lenin.

      Moscow, August 20, 1918.

      Comrades: A Russian Bolshevik who participated in the Revolution of 1905 and for many years afterwards lived in your country has offered to transmit this letter to you. I have grasped this opportunity joyfully for the revolutionary proletariat of America—insofar as it is the enemy of American imperialism—is destined to perform an important task at this time.

      The history of modern civilized America opens with one of those really revolutionary wars of liberation of which there have been so few compared with the enormous number of wars of conquest that were caused, like the present imperialistic war, by squabbles among kings, landholders and capitalists over the division of ill-gotten lands and profits. It was a war of the American people against the English who despoiled America of its resources and held in colonial subjection, just as their civilized descendants are draining the life-blood of hundreds of millions of human beings in India, Egypt and all corners and ends of the world to keep them in subjection.

      Since that war 150 years have passed. Bourgeois civilization has born its most luxuriant fruit. By developing the productive forces of organized human labor, by

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