On the contrary, the war would go on with redoubled fury, so far as the plutocratic classes of all the allied countries, Including our own, were concerned."

I repeat again that if the kaiser were deposed tomorrow and if the crown prince were to commit suicide and a Social-Democratic republic were established in both Germany and Austria —this would not by any means bring peace.

The allied attitude in opposition to the new Russian government will prove a fair sample of what we must expect in the near future everywhere else.

Under these conditions it would not be surprising if this war to make the world safe for democracy should suddenly change into a war to make capitalism safe against Social-Democracy.

But the capitalist papers denounce the huge majority of the Socialists everywhere as lovers of autocracy, simply because t,hey adhere steadfastly to the principles propagated by the Socialists for the last 70 years —against capitalist wars and for international peace.

Herve and those like him in Italy, who came out straight against Socialism and for capitalism—who find favor with the plutocracy.

...charging the entire Socialist movement of the world, with pro-kaiserism.There are a few insignificant exceptions,such as Hyndman’s following in England, the Belgians, a handful of ceceders in America,

The English government would like to stop it but what can the English do against Russia?At this distance and at this time it is not easy to size up the situation completely. Already there are voices to be heard in all the capitalist papers...

This news comes with a great deal of hostile comment from England. The English have .for a long time looked upon the Russian Socialists with great disfavor, because the Russians were considered- to have set a very bad example to the proletariat of the other nations.

It is also reported from London that the new government will propose an immediate peace in order to build up the Russian Republic" that the new government will hand over the land to the peasant villages, and that the new government will summon a constitutional assembly at once.

Commenting on the fall of Kerensky, Victor L. (Berger) has been seized by the council with the assistance of the Petrograd garrison, without bloodshed or disorder.

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