We are comrades, brothers, and sisters, and
have no reason to fight. Your enemies are not the Japanese people,
but our militarism and so-called patriotism. Patriotism and
militarism are our mutual enemies."
In January 1905, throughout the United States the socialists held
mass-meetings to express their sympathy for their struggling
comrades, the revolutionists of Russia, and, more to the point, to
furnish the sinews of war by collecting money and cabling it to the
Russian leaders. The fact of this call for money, and the ready
response, and the very wording of the call, make a striking and
practical demonstration of the international solidarity of this
world-revolution:
"Whatever may be the immediate results of the present revolt in
Russia, the socialist propaganda in that country has received from it
an impetus unparalleled in the history of modern class wars. The
heroic battle for freedom is being fought almost exclusively by the
Russian working-class under the intellectual leadership of Russian
socialists, thus once more demonstrating the fact that the class-
conscious working-men have become the vanguard of all liberating
movements of modern times.
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