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 shamelessly gives attractive airs to bourgeois democracy by suppressing, for instance, such acts as are committed by the most democratic and republican bourgeoisie of America and Switzerland against strikers.

Yes, the all-wise and most learned Kautsky hushes up these things. He does not evidently realize, this great political theoretician, that such silence is an infamy. He prefers telling the workers nursery tales, such as that democracy means the "protection of minorities." it is incredible, but it is a fact. In the year 1918 of our Lord, in the fifth year of the universal Imperialist slaughter and strangulation of internationalist (that is, not such as have infamously sold Socialism, like, for insance, the Renaudels and the Longuets, the Scheidemanns, and the Kautskys, the Hendersons and the Webbs, etc.) minorities in all "democracies of the world," the learned Mr. Kautsky sweetly sings the praises of the "protection of minorities." Those who are interested may read this on page 15 of Kautsky's pamphlet. And on page 16 this learned personage tells you about the Whigs and Tories in England in the 18th century!

Oh, this wonderful erudition! Oh, this refined flunkeyism before the bourgeoisie. Oh, this civilized way of crawling on the belly before the capitalists and of licking their boots! If I were a Krupp or a Scheidemann, a Clemenceau, or a Renaudel, I would give Mr. Kautsky millions, would cover him with thousands of Judas kisses, would press him upon the workers, and recommend "Socialist unity" with respectable men like him. To write pamphlets against the dictatorship of the proletariat, to tell about the Whigs and Tories in England in the 18th century, to give assurances that democracy means the "protection of minorities," and to suppress the facts about pogroms of internationalists in republican and democratic America,—why, the bourgeoisie cannot get a more servile lackey!

The learned Mr. Kautsky has "forgotten"—no doubt