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religious" faith in the possibility of Socialism is the greatest revolutionary factor in history? No one can doubt that without this so-called "fanaticism" of the masses the workers' revolution and the emancipation of the labouring class are utter impossibilities. Martov expounded a programme which was a direct challenge to the Socialist revolution; it was the open contempt of a renegade, a doctrinaire-intellectual, for the mass struggle of the workers, for the indomitable faith in the victory of labour. Martov spoke as a typical reformist, who knows of no greater foe than the so-called "religious" faith of the labouring masses in the Revolution.
Tell me who are your friends, and I will tell you what you are! Tell me who is your friend in the International arena, and I will tell you what is your own political position! The leaders of the Right. Independents walked arm in arm with Martov, the counter-revolutionary reformist, and that in the sight of the whole world. This will cost them many dozen local organisations, which will now turn away from them even sooner than we could have otherwise expected.
We made the Right Independents speak out, and made them state categorically in what manner their principles differed from those of the Communist International, and the theses which were adopted at the Second Congress of the Communist International. The Right Independents in the persons of Crispien, Dittman, and Hilferding declared that there were four questions on which they disagreed with us in principle, namely: the agrarian, the national terror, and the role of the Soviets. Later on we had little difficulty in proving that all these four divergences could be reduced to one cardinal dissension: the Proletarian World Revolution versus Reformism.
Let us now turn to the divergencies as formulated by the Right Independents themselves. Let us start with the agrarian question. The Right leaders reject the theses of the Second Congress on the grounds that they admit, in certain cases, of the division of big estates into small peasant holdings, and that this is contrary to Marxist principles. Poor Marxism. Marx can only turn in his grave when Crispien, Dittmann, and Hilferding take upon themselves to expound his theories. The
