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THE SECOND AND THIRD INTERNATIONAL

1900 proved the “brotherhood of the nations.” He writes as follows: “The expedition to China furnished another proof of the ascendancy of the idea of peace in contemporary affairs. An international association of armies was displayed. . . . The armies marched, as a pacific force, under the command of a European generalissimo. We, the friends of peace, regard this world generalissimo” [he was writing about Count Waldersee, who was appointed generalissimo by William II] “as merely the forerunner of that world statesman who will be in a position to realise our ideal of peaceful methods.” Here we see open and universal robbery designated “the brotherhood of the nations.” In like manner, the robber League of Capitalists is dished up with the League of Nations’ sauce.

38. Jingo Socialists.

The false watchwords with which, day after day, the bourgeoisie deafened the masses, with which the newspapers were filled, and which clamoured from every hoarding, were also adopted as slogans by the traitors to

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