Original: The New York Times Accessed December 23 , 2008 Prior to this , Tresca had supported the Bolsheviks , reasoning that a Communist state was preferable to a capitalist state , regarding Soviet Communists as allies in the fight against Fascism .
Simplified: Before to this , Tresca had supported the Bolsheviks , with the excuse of that a Communist state was preferable to a capitalist state .