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OUT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS

The overthrow of the bourgeoisie by force, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, a merciless class struggle on an international scale, a close and inseparable union with the Communist International.

From the first moment of its inauguration the newest Red Internationale was met with grave internal problems. A split was immediately threatened between the ultra-State Socialism of the Russians who hoped to extend their absolute authority from the Russian State to other nations, and the ultra-revolutionary labor unions of other countries, all of which tend in the direction of syndicalism or anti-Stateism. Apparently the conflict is insoluble, but the Moscow chiefs of the new Internationale decided to use their accepted Macchiavellian tactics of deception and to "take in" the syndicalist elements—as will be demonstrated by the evidence we shall now reproduce.

Among the reports unanimously adopted at the Congress of the Communist Internationale in July, 1920, was the following:

As for the revolutionary Syndicalists, as well as the representatives of shop-stewards, we shall not follow the example of the II International, which always harassed and persecuted all workmen who were not in agreement with its ideas.

We shall work in conjunction with all honest and honestly misguided workmen, and together with them we shall learn and make mistakes, because fundamentally, in our class aims and ideals we represent with them a single proletarian revolutionary whole.

Another resolution recommended the most "friendly attitude" and "closer connection" with these organiza-