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 Chauvinism. Bolshevism has finally disposed of the old foul Internationalism of the Scheidemanns and Kautskys, the Renaudels and Lcnguets, the Hendersons and Macdonalds, who will henceforth be stumbling against one another in their vain dreams of unity and of reviving a corpse. Bolshevism has created, the theoretical and tactical foundations of a Thrid International, a really proletarian and Communist International, which will take into consideration both the conquests of the peaceful period and the experience of the revolutionary period which has now begun.

Bolshevism has popularized throughout the world the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat, has translated the words from the Latin, first into Russian, and then into all the languages of the world, by showing, by the living example of the Soviet régime, that the workers and poorer peasantry, even of a backward country, even with the least experience and education and habits of organization, have been able for a whole year, amidst gigantic difficulties and amidst the continuance of the fight against the exploiters (supported by the bourgeoisie of the entire world), to maintain the authority of the laboring masses, to create a democracy higher than all the previous democracies of the world, and to begin, by scores of millions of workers and peasants, the constructive work for the practical realization of Socialism.

Bolshevism has helped in a practical manner to further proletarian revolution in Europe and America in such a way as no party has ever succeeded in doing anywhere before. While the workers of the entire world are realizing more and more clearly that the policy of the Scheidemanns and the Kautskys is not calculated to free them from the Imperialist war and from wage slavery under the Imperialist bourgeoisie, and that this policy cannot serve as a model for any country, they at the same time realize more and more that Bolshevism has shown the right way to escape from the horrors of war and