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“... permanency imparted by publication in book
IrTollows^ ' Weekly People of May 11, 1918,
Premier Lenine," said Reed, "i* a great admirer of
Daniel De Leon, considering him the greatest of modern So-
"i/ one who has added anything to Socialist
thought since Marx. Reinstein managed to take with him to
Russia a few of the pamphlets written by De Leon, but Lenine
wants more. He asked Reed to try hard to send several copies
of all of De Leon s pubHshed works, and also a copy of 'With
De Leon Since 89, a biography by Rudolph Katz, which is
now^ in process of publication by the Socialist Labor Party.
^ Lenine intends to translate this into Russian and write
an introduction to it.
_ "It is Lenines opinion that the Industrial State as con-
ceived by De Leon will ultimately have to be the form of gov-
ernment in Russia. The government is now based partly on
workshop committees. The Soviets are directly responsive
to their constituents, as a representative can be recalled and
his place...”
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