They want trouble in Russia, they want strikes in England, they
want everything that would facilitate the achievement of their
conquering schemes.
But you will not make them rejoice. You will not forget the words
of our great fabulist: "What the enemy advises is surely bad." You
must insist that all your representatives take the most active
part in all organizations created now, under the pressure of
public opinion, for the struggle with the foe. Your
representatives must, if possible, take part not only in the work
of the special technical organizations, such as the War-Industrial
Committees which have been created for the needs of the army, but
also in all other organizations of social and political character.
The situation is such that we cannot come to freedom in any other
way than by the war of national defense.
That the foregoing Manifesto expressed the position of the vast majority of
Russian Socialists there can be no doubt whatever. Between this position
and that of the Porazhentsi with their doctrine that Russia's defeat by
Germany was desirable, there was a middle ground, which was taken by a not
inconsiderable number of Socialists, including such able leaders as Paul
Axelrod.
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