If the
law of the land permits, they fight for this end peaceably, at the
ballot-box. If the law of the land does not permit, and if they have
force meted out to them, they resort to force themselves. They meet
violence with violence. Their hands are strong and they are
unafraid. In Russia, for instance, there is no suffrage. The
government executes the revolutionists. The revolutionists kill the
officers of the government. The revolutionists meet legal murder
with assassination.
Now here arises a particularly significant phase which it would be
well for the rulers to consider. Let me make it concrete. I am a
revolutionist. Yet I am a fairly sane and normal individual. I
speak, and I THINK, of these assassins in Russia as "my comrades."
So do all the comrades in America, and all the 7,000,000 comrades in
the world. Of what worth an organized, international, revolutionary
movement if our comrades are not backed up the world over! The worth
is shown by the fact that we do back up the assassinations by our
comrades in Russia.
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