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4. with mob violence. This has been mentioned even by the German Plekhanov, the social-chauvinist David8 In Russia, the capitalists persecute the Pravda-ists as traitors. In England the capitalists persecute the Scottish school tea- cher, MacLean, as a traitor. The latter is languishing in prison for the same kind of crime, for the same kind of 'treason' as that of which Karl Liebknecht and we, the Pravda-ists, are guilty." - 28th April 1917. Collected Works, Vol. XX, Book I, p. 190. The Stockholm Conference9 "You would not have regarded as a victory the issue of a passport to MacDonald10 a man who has never carried on a revolutionary struggle against capitalism and who is per- mitted to pass because he had never expressed the ideas, or principles, or practice or experience of that revolutionary struggle against the English capitalists for which our com- rade MacLean and hundreds of other English Socialists are in prison, for which our Comrade Liebknecht, who said, "German soldiers fight against your Kaiser", has been sent- enced to hard labour....MacLean and Liebknecht - these are names of Socialists who put the idea of revolutionary struggle against imperialism into life." - 17th June 1917. Collected Works, Vol. XX, Book II, p. 202. "An appraisal of all trends of international socialism from the point of view of principle was made only by the party of the Bolsheviks in a detailed resolution adopted at a conference, May 7-12, 191711 and confirmed by the Sixth Congress of our Party in August. To forget this appraisal made from the point of view of principle, and to argue about the Stockholm Conference without considering it, means to abandon principles altogether. "As a sample of the abandonment of principles prevailing among all the petty-bourgeois democrats, the Socialist- Revolutionaries12 and Mensheviks13 we may point to an art- icle in the issue of the Novaya Zhizn14 for August 23. This article deserves attention just because it combines in one place, in a paper occupying the extreme Left Wing of the petty-bourgeois democrats, the most widespread errors, prejudices, and lack of ideas as regards Stockholm... "...Instead of saying to the workers: "Look, the Anglo- F C T C r m T o r E C V a S l l