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The New Leader Mail Bar Questions' for Mr. Hi boon ejtor Th« New Loader: Pt am carious to knew what sort of ft. '—is Captain Fazton Hlbben, beasase yesterday, at the> Conference of riu...
...Hibben said not a word about tne thousands ot others who were ¦tied upon and shot through efforts...
...Am i correct...
...if Socialists in Russia were killed...
...fjibben merely said "Yes...
...editor...
...Why do they stiii maintain their hostile attitude toward the Socialists who pointed Out to them their follies in the first place, which follies they themselves are now admitting by a change In their owtt tacties...
...they stuck their guns in the ground...
...I The Communists of Russia do not tad never did believe in or advocate revolution by violence...
...many other things: t The Russians have found the only sW to stop war, namely stop fighting, la the late unpleasantness they decided 4 end the war by ceasing to fight...
...f the Cheka merely because of dlsseatlng political views and utterances...
...Hibben went to some lengths to explain that tie method of elections in Russia is 2bite democratic and representative ! the will of the workers...
...I would like to ask for my e*n enlightenment and intimation: If the Odfcfcunlita hate new began to aee the Hght, that Is...
...Ask the Lefts, tfiey know.—Editor...
...5. The Communist rule in Russia is not in atitocracy at all...
...According to Ki...
...The rulers of Russia are elected, and although there is only one party, namely the Communist Party, In Russia, yet others, not Communists, may be elected...
...Jailed and exiled for no other reason £hdn co-operation with the Czarlsts and white army (which Is certainly not true of the Socialists .of the rest of the world), then why did the split take place In the international Socialists movement and why is that split still maintained to the present moment...
...Paxton Hlbben these Communists are the most peaceful and pecaeable jjopie on earth, believing only in pHcable methods, for accomplishing their ends, unless driven by their opponents to violence...
...anion...
...A READER, Boston, Mass...
...An* I correct as to this...
...It seems to me that one of the reasons for the split A the Socialist Party is because the Socialists, insisted that the attempt at a world revolution which the Comnituiists were aiming for at that time was most absurd and impossible, for Which the Socialists were termed '"yelWw," "reformlstsi»- and "counter-revoMtlonlsts...
...t. The Russmns haa never advocated s world revolution...
...What Is the row about now...
...Commmoists do not advocate a world' revolution fey violence, msurrectlon, civil war, coups d'etats, etc., etc., if they believe tthtt the world jrevdiu'tion jwtfl come about through different methods and at different timet in 4»« rartoua countries according to the conditions peculiar to those countries...
...ttheir hands ih their pockets and t home...
...What is the real reason, as stated tf the Communists themsleves, for the Imprisonment of the Socialists in Ruslii...
...8. The Cheka served as an agency only tor, ferreting 'out the grafters (Mr...
...sfnment is training an army of 400,git is to educate them...
...You are right.—Editor...
...If my memory serves me, pyrrectly, the Bolsheviks had actually liked the Allies for trained officers to lead their armies ih the war against Germany, and failing to get any assist - (are from the...
...and come back Into the Socialist Party...
...Hibbeq, ^e...
...They had merely toped for one, bUt thejr have how abandoned that hope...
...ft, according to Paxton...
...Am I cor- . Ait...
...You are...
...I. The reason the Soviet Government Jilt Socialists ln-JalMs that the Socialists co-operated with the White armies smea the latter invaded Russia...
...Yes, the Socialists fought tb the Soviet armies.—Editor...
...Biit if niy memory Is correct again, in New York City, Just before they split away from the Socialists, they issued a left wing manifesto in which they openly and definitely advocated insurrection and civil war...
...1 I. The reason that the Soviet Gov...
...In other words, if the Communists have changed their former tactics, it they how realize their mistakes, the very mistakes which the Socialists pointed'out to them in .the first place, and-are now making "strategic retreats," why don't they confess like intelligent, ^decent, human beings that they were wrong, that the Socialists were right...
...gaid he...
...When asked ^a man in the audience whether the vtet Government couldn't find some Bitter way of educating her men' Mr...
...is Captain Fazton Hlbben, beasase yesterday, at the> Conference of riu Fellowship of Youth for Peace, g|jd at Concord, Mass., this man made datements in a public address which pWeo hie...
...7. Benin, according to Hibben, had always pointed out that revolutions mast come out of the conditions indigenous to the country involved, and thus it was absurd for the Communists t» have advocated world revolution...
...but If this is so, Will you then tell me, dear Editor, what was the row about between the Socialists and u.nr former comrades, the present Communists...
...lAstly...
...Thus saith Paxton...
...HowoveTfy- the non-Communists who art elected to office ln\-arlably become Communists, because they nnd they can work better that way...
...Allies, they gave up out st sheer inability to go on...
...Their desire to rule all sections at the working class.—Editor...
...Is my mentery serving me correctly when ( seem to remember that during the Invasion of the 'White armies under 6ikri.it generals the Socialists, as well as oiner elements ih Russia, united With the Bolsheviks in driving out the invader...
...Tes.—Editor...
Vol. 3 • July 1926 • No. 26
