Adolf Warski defends the Paris Commune, Soviet Russia and the dictatorship of the proletariat

Adolf Warski, (born Adolf Jerzy Warszawski, 1868-1937) was one most important activist and theoreticians of Polish workers’ movement. In the article below, Warski engages in a polemic with the social democratic critics of the dictatorship of the proletariat and defends of Marxist theory of the state.

Luxemburg’s comrade defends her memory from the „Luxemburgists”

Adolf Warski (born Adolf Warszawski; 1868-1937) was one of the most prominent activists of the Polish workers movement.

He was a member of the Social-Revolutionary Party „Proletariat”, the first workers’ party in tsarist Russia, then he became the founder and one of the leaders of the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania (SDKPiL). He took part in the 1905 Revolution and was imprisoned by the tsarist authorities. After World War I, he was one of the co-founders and leaders of the Communist Party of Poland. On her behalf, in 1926, he became a member of the Sejm (lower chamber of the Polish parliament). In 1930, at the 5th Congress of the CPP, he was removed from major party positions as a result of an inter-factional struggle. He emigrated to the USSR, where during the Great Purge he was arrested and executed as a „spy-terrorist”, like most of the leaders of the CPP.