The Connecticut labor news., 1923-01-12
By KARL KAUTSKY.

There is no difference between ty who misused the revolution of worl Kremlin.
 What this regime seeks is to make the Socialists of the entire world 1t: associates in it's policy of persecution something which Czarism, for ob vious reasons, never aimed at.
 The Bolsheviki maintain that their policy constitutes the only genuine application of Marxism, that it con- stitutes a strict application of the principles of the class struggle. But the oppression and persecution ot workingmen, belonging to another current of Socialist thought, and for no other reason than that these workers prefer to interpret Socialism in a manner different from the Bol- sheviki is in sharp contradiction with these class-struggle, principles. We, Marxian Establishments, in com mon with nearly all other Socialists, stand for democracy and for the right of unrestricted political prop aganda for all political parties. This must, above all, demand for all the Socialist parties in Russia It is quite inevitable for the respective Socialist parties to find themselves frequently in disagreement with one another But this must be expressed only i'll struggle of argument, in struggle for the soul of the proletariat. So ciaists who resort in this struggle against the opinions of other Socia1 J. ists to guns, bayonets, Che-Ka organ izations and jails are committing an act of violence against the pro1e- tariat and the idea of the class struggle. ~.... :. Accused Are Moral Victors.
 Even the Bolsheviki themselves feel this. For this reason they, seek to excuse their regime of violence in the eyes of the Socialists of the entire world by asserting, like the wolf in the old fable, that the sheep. are try ing to pollute theawater which they, the Bolsheviki, forsooth, seek to main tain unpolluted. To convince the world of the truth of this claim was the chief purpose of the Moscow trial. By this trial the Bolsheviki sought to destroy not only physically but morally the foremost representatives of the sts-Revolutionists. But the trial produced quite the opposite effect It resulted in the moral vic tory of the accused and the moral execution of the accusers.
 - The Bolsheviki were first to use violence against other Socialists. sembly not by way of resistance against any violence on the part of the ist-Revolutionists and Men sheviki but because of their realiza- ton of their own inability to obtain the support of the majority of the peasants and workers by means Of free propaganda. This was the funda- mental cause of the Bolshevist coup d'etat against the representatives ot the revolutionary workers and peas ants. Hence, the abolition of all rights of all other Socialists who re- fused to submit to the crack of the Bolshevist whip. Hence, the estab- lishment of a political regime which leaves but one form of open politi- cal action for the opposition-clvil war.
 Fine Art of Destruction.
 Armed uprising against the Bol- sheviki, at the present moment, would only delay the process now in prog ress in Russia and pregnant with great consequences-the process ot the desertion of Bolshevism by the proletarian and peasant masses and their return to the other Socialist parties. This process represents a deadly danger for the Bolshevist die tatorship. The real crime of which the ists-Revolutionists are gull ty before the Bolsheviki at the pres ent moment is not in the prepara- ton of terroristic acts and armed up- risings, but in that, like the Menshe- wiki and perhaps even to larger ex- tent, the ocialists-Revolutionists whose ranks are constantly growing in number, are acquiring in ever in creasing measure the confidence of the toiling masses of Russia. This bids fair to bring about the complete isolation of the Bolsheviki in short