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 own defensive and aggressive policy against international and national capitalism."

At this point begin the villainous insinuations of Serati. Here is what he says in his fifth point:

"… A policy which, while helping the Soviet Republic, at the same time, can be of undisputed benefit to the proletariat as a whole, yet it may not suit the tactical necessities of another country, which is still within the critical process of its own revolution."

I would like to ask the comrades of the Communist Labour Party of Germany (K.A.P.D.) to pay attention to this fifth point of Serati, because Serati has here in mind the Left-wingers of the Communist Labour Party of Germany, who are now making use of the articles of Hermann Gorter.

Sixthly: "There was a manifest disproportion between the qualities of the individual delegates, to an unprecedented extent, even for international congresses. This was a substantial cause of the many conceivable difficulties, pausings and waverings in the discussions."

This may be interpreted by everyone according to his taste. I, for one, am puzzled by the expression: "Different qualities at an International Communist Congress." I think he meant to say the same thing as Gilferding, when he laughed at the Mohamedan priest of Chiva. Fine Communists that they are!

Seventhly: "The allotment of votes to the individual countries did not correspond to the actual political and moral importance of the respective Parties, but rather to the capitalist importance of the countries represented. Thus, France received as many votes as Italy, although the French delegates represented only a very insignificant minority of the Party as well as of the Confederation."

Serati thus stops at nothing that might compromise the Second Congress.

Eighth: "The remoteness of the meeting place of