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 guidicato, dai socialisti Italiani." It is written by a bourgeois. This pamphlet has been disseminated more widely than Levi's booklet. It consists of quotations from the gentlemen whom Serati Had brought here, and whom we received so cordially. The latter have now written everything possible that actually happened, and had not happened, to prove how bad things look in the country where the working class holds the power.

I would like to mention a few things, comrades, of most recent occurrence, namely, the elections. In the "Soviet," published by Paul Levi, in which some of the members of the V. K. P. D. United Communist Party of Germany) are collaborators, I read an article, by Comrade Kurt Geyer, on the Italian elections. He asserts that the elections have shown the following result: Serati's party obtained 1,400,000 votes; the Communist party about 400,000. Consequently the masses are with Serati, and this means the evident defeat of the Communist International. He affirms: the defeat of the Italian Communists is not only the defeat of the Communists, it is also the defeat of Zinoviev, the defeat of the Executive Committee of the Communist International.

When a new young party receives 400,000 votes, it is to be considered a defeat. … But when Scheidemann with his gang, having murdered Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, receive a million votes, no one thinks this to be a defeat of Communism. How then can one speak of a defeat of the Executive in Italy? That means that the workers and a great number of petty bourgeois still vote for these people. But where is the defeat in this case? I have an article from the "Populaire" of June 4th, signed by Cesare Alessandri, an Italian deputy who is in close relations with Serati. He writes about the elections. I shall only quote some of the figures.