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list, hoping thus to hoodwink the simple workers. And certainly such simpletons can be always found among the workers who will say: if Liebknect, the brother of Karl Liebknecht is on their side (i.e., for the Rights) they are probably not such rascals after all.
This trick shows the dexterity of Dittmann and Crispien. But what should be said of Theodor Liebknecht, who allowed such use to be made of his name? What should be said of a man who did not scruple to misuse the memory of his brother, who fell in the fight against such rascals as Dittmann and Crispien?
Theodor Liebknecht came up to me at the congress, and skaking me by the hand, said gloomily: "I am pleased to welcome you, but regret that it should be under such circumstances." Bearing in mind the mean actions of Theodor Liebknecht I was unable to reciprocate his greeting.
Such is the general-staff of the Right Independent faction.
We need only add that next to these honourable leaders were sitting the following distinguished foreign guests, representatives of the fraternal parties of other countries: Mr. Grumbach, the patented journalistic charlatan, the jingo who in the course of the war flooded the venile press of the Allies with phantastic "news" from Germany. Next to Grumbach was seated his honourable colleague Martov, a man of the past who popped-up at Halle to whitewash Dissmann—the new Noske of the future. And, finally, sitting shyly at the end of the bench among the Rights was Longuet, the French Kautskian. He looked uncomfortable, however, in that company, and his face seemed to say: "If only I could sit between the two sections of the congress. …"
The attitude of the whole Right Wing of the Independents towards Karl Kautsky was most characteristic. As is well known, Kautsky himself was not present at Halle. He, together with his wife, with a well known French social traitor Renaudel, the Belgian social patriot Huysmann, and a couple of other social traitors, were visiting Georgia at that time. Kautsky's absence from the congress apparently was not accidental. The wire-pullers of the Right Wing of the Independents felt that
