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					<description><![CDATA[The attitude of the mainstream PPS towards Rosa Luxemburg can be seen in this article by Jan Maurycy Borski, who from 1919 to 1939 was the deputy editor of its newspaper “Robotnik”.
http://lewicowo.pl/roza-luxemburg/

In his opening paragraph, Borski sees her “tragic death” as also being a “blow against Bolshevism”.
Poland was in danger of “becoming an island in a Bolshevik sea and being gathered up like a ripe fruit”.
He portrays the Spartacist uprising as being about “saving the Bolsheviks in Russia” and “saving pure and real socialism”.

After Poland gained independence; “the followers of Rosa Luxemburg, who are always right and can foretell everything from the communist talmud ...fell into consternation”, changing their slogan from Autonomy to the “devishly maximalist” no borders.”

The attitude of the PPS towards the Jewish Labour Bund can be gleaned from its 1905 programme, as described by Leon Wasilewski, a long time political ally of Piłsudski, who continued to support him during the Sanajca regime.
http://lewicowo.pl/polska-partia-socjalistyczna/

The main criticism of the Bund is that it supports an “all-Russia programme” and has a “weak sense of solidarity with the workers&#039; population of Poland and Lithuania”.

“This position fully explains the attitude of the PPS to the &quot;Bund&quot;, a central-Russian organization, which does not take into account special needs of Poland and Lithuania, and, in addition, distracts the Jewish proletariat from the joint struggle”

However, a report by the Police chief of Łódź in 1905 describes Jewish protestors coming to the funeral of Christian workers killed by the Tsarist forces
“carrying banners with inscriptions in Jewish language [i.e. Yiddish]. 
The majority of agitators giving speeches over the grave are Jews as well. When a Jew is laid dead, the situation is reciprocal.”

It’s very likely that the intervention of socialists in 1905 prevented a pogrom in Łódź, as had happened in 1892.

Such was the hostility of the PPS to an &quot;all-Russia programme&quot;, that Piłsudski formed a military alliance with Germany &#038; Austria-Hungary during World War One.  HIs rise to power was faciliated by the abdication of the Kaiser, under pressure from the Workers and Soldiers Councils in Germany.

On the same day, Piłsudski was released from prison in Magdeburg and returned to Warsaw, where he became Marshall of Poland.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The attitude of the mainstream PPS towards Rosa Luxemburg can be seen in this article by Jan Maurycy Borski, who from 1919 to 1939 was the deputy editor of its newspaper “Robotnik”.<br />
<a href="http://lewicowo.pl/roza-luxemburg/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://lewicowo.pl/roza-luxemburg/</a></p>
<p>In his opening paragraph, Borski sees her “tragic death” as also being a “blow against Bolshevism”.<br />
Poland was in danger of “becoming an island in a Bolshevik sea and being gathered up like a ripe fruit”.<br />
He portrays the Spartacist uprising as being about “saving the Bolsheviks in Russia” and “saving pure and real socialism”.</p>
<p>After Poland gained independence; “the followers of Rosa Luxemburg, who are always right and can foretell everything from the communist talmud &#8230;fell into consternation”, changing their slogan from Autonomy to the “devishly maximalist” no borders.”</p>
<p>The attitude of the PPS towards the Jewish Labour Bund can be gleaned from its 1905 programme, as described by Leon Wasilewski, a long time political ally of Piłsudski, who continued to support him during the Sanajca regime.<br />
<a href="http://lewicowo.pl/polska-partia-socjalistyczna/" rel="nofollow ugc">http://lewicowo.pl/polska-partia-socjalistyczna/</a></p>
<p>The main criticism of the Bund is that it supports an “all-Russia programme” and has a “weak sense of solidarity with the workers&#8217; population of Poland and Lithuania”.</p>
<p>“This position fully explains the attitude of the PPS to the &#8220;Bund&#8221;, a central-Russian organization, which does not take into account special needs of Poland and Lithuania, and, in addition, distracts the Jewish proletariat from the joint struggle”</p>
<p>However, a report by the Police chief of Łódź in 1905 describes Jewish protestors coming to the funeral of Christian workers killed by the Tsarist forces<br />
“carrying banners with inscriptions in Jewish language [i.e. Yiddish].<br />
The majority of agitators giving speeches over the grave are Jews as well. When a Jew is laid dead, the situation is reciprocal.”</p>
<p>It’s very likely that the intervention of socialists in 1905 prevented a pogrom in Łódź, as had happened in 1892.</p>
<p>Such was the hostility of the PPS to an &#8220;all-Russia programme&#8221;, that Piłsudski formed a military alliance with Germany &amp; Austria-Hungary during World War One.  HIs rise to power was faciliated by the abdication of the Kaiser, under pressure from the Workers and Soldiers Councils in Germany.</p>
<p>On the same day, Piłsudski was released from prison in Magdeburg and returned to Warsaw, where he became Marshall of Poland.</p>
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