punishment of the workers should they dare to infringe capitalist law. In America it would seem that the prison, lynch law, and the electric chair, are the chosen symbols of democracy and freedom. In Hungary and Britain, in Czecho-Slovakia and Poland — everywhere it is the same. The bourgeois assassins do not shrink from the most atrocious actions. In the hope of strengthening their regime they encourage jingoism, and they organise abominable anti-Jewish pogroms, even worse than those which used to be organised by the tsarist police. . . . When the Polish reactionaries and the ‘socialist’ rabble murdered the representatives of the Russian Red Cross, this was but an additional drop in the ocean of crimes and atrocities perpetrated by bourgeois cannibalism in its death agony.”
As the civil war develops, it assumes new forms. When in any country the proletariat is oppressed beyond measure, it leads this war by a revolt against the State authority of the bourgeoisie. Now let us suppose that in one