Are petrified for ever."

I received a letter the other day. It was from a man in Arizona. It
began, "Dear Comrade." It ended, "Yours for the Revolution." I
replied to the letter, and my letter began, "Dear Comrade." It
ended, "Yours for the Revolution." In the United States there are
400,000 men, of men and women nearly 1,000,000, who begin their
letters "Dear Comrade," and end them "Yours for the Revolution." In
Germany there are 3,000,000 men who begin their letters "Dear
Comrade" and end them "Yours for the Revolution"; in France,
1,000,000 men; in Austria, 800,000 men; in Belgium, 300,000 men; in
Italy, 250,000 men; in England, 100,000 men; in Switzerland, 100,000
men; in Denmark, 55,000 men; in Sweden, 50,000 men; in Holland,
40,000 men; in Spain, 30,000 men--comrades all, and revolutionists.

These are numbers which dwarf the grand armies of Napoleon and
Xerxes. But they are numbers not of conquest and maintenance of the
established order, but of conquest and revolution. They compose,
when the roll is called, an army of 7,000,000 men, who, in accordance
with the conditions of to-day, are fighting with all their might for
the conquest of the wealth of the world and for the complete
overthrow of existing society.

There has never been anything like this revolution in the history of
the world. There is nothing analogous between it and the American
Revolution or the French Revolution. It is unique, colossal. Other
revolutions compare with it as asteroids compare with the sun. It is
alone of its kind, the first world-revolution in a world whose
history is replete with revolutions. And not only this, for it is
the first organized movement of men to become a world movement,