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2. to the petty-bourgeois peasants, but also to the co-operat- ive movement. You know that just for this Scheidemanna and company consider him a dreamer and fanatic, yet you adress- ed a message of greetings to him, just as you sent greet- ings to MacLean. By voicing solidarity on these matters with the great world leaders you have burnt your boats. You must keep a firm stand because at the moment you are standing up not only for yourselves, not only for your own rights, but also for the rights of Liebknecht and MacLean. "...There is only one way out: a merger of the co-opera- tive movement with the Soviet government. You know that Britain, France, America and Spain regarded our actions as experiments; they have now changed their tune: they now have to look to their own affairs at home. Of course, physically, materially and financially they are consider- ably stronger than we are, but in spite of their outward polish we know they are rotten inside; they are stronger than we are at present with the strength that was Germany's when the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty was concluded. But what do we see now? Everyone recoiled from us then. Now, every month we spend in strengthening the Soviet Republic, we spend in defending not only ourselves, but also the cause started by Liebknecht and MacLean, and we already see that Britain, France, America and Spain have been infected with the same disease and are fired with the same flame as Germany, the flame of the universal and world-wide struggle of the working class against imperialism". - 10th December 1918. 'Speech to the Third Workers' Co-oper- ative Congress', Collected Works, Vol. 28, pp. 335-7. THE COMMUNIST PATH. "Beside the craven, half-hearted 'socialists' who are thoroughly imbued with the prejudices of bourgeois democ- racy, who yesterday defended 'their' imperialist govern- ments and today limit themselves to platonic 'protests' against military intervention in Russia - beside these there is a growing number of people in the Allied countries who have taken the communist path, the path of MacLean, Debs b, Loriot, Lazzari c and Serrati d. These are men who have realised that if imperialism is to be crushed and the victory of socialism and lasting peace ensured, the bour- geoisie must be overthrown, bourgeois parliaments abolished, ar es 'I Wo No a. th Re go wh re b. is 5 ja ja wa af un Se sa on te in th re c. Wo al ed 19 pr wh d. is Co 3r th in un