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."

Here are 7,000,000 comrades in an organized, international, world-
wide, revolutionary movement. Here is a tremendous human force. It
must be reckoned with. Here is power. And here is romance--romance
so colossal that it seems to be beyond the ken of ordinary mortals.
These revolutionists are swayed by great passion. They have a keen
sense of personal right, much of reverence for humanity, but little
reverence, if any at all, for the rule of the dead. They refuse to
be ruled by the dead. To the bourgeois mind their unbelief in the