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You know that at the present time the avowed and unavowed enemies of the working class—the capitalists and their parasites, the clergy of all denominations, officials of high or middle rank, and other paid tools of the bureaucratic confraternity—are everywhere vilifying the Bolsheviki, those revolutionary Socialists who, in the stormy tide of events, have remained true to their aims and to their determination to fight against those who impede the progress of the people, whether the opponents be the capitalist class as a whole, Kerensky's notorious Provisional Government, individual Socialists who have deviated from the old revolutionary path, or even entire Socialist sections such as the Left and Right Social Revolutionaries and the S.D. Mensheviki.

What, then, is this Communist, Bolshevik Party? Why is there such gnashing of teeth at the mere mention of its name among the merchants, the manufacturers, and the financial interests? Why has this party become the pet aversion of all those who work little and eat much? Where has it sprung from, and whither is it leading the workers and poorest peasantry? By what means does it intend to bring about the liberation of the peoples?

This pamphlet will endeavour to make all these matters clear to the reader.