Comrades! I would like to respond primarily to Comrade Lazzari. He said, “Bring forth concrete facts—not just words.” Excellent. But if we trace the development of the reformist-opportunistic tendency in Italy, will what we encounter be words or facts? In your speeches and throughout your entire political line, you overlook a circumstance of great significance for the socialist movement in Italy: not only has this tendency been present for a long time, but the opportunistic-reformist faction itself has existed for just as long. I still vividly remember the time when Bernstein launched his opportunistic propaganda, which ultimately culminated in social-patriotism, betrayal, and the bankruptcy of the Second International. Even then, Turati was known to us not only by name, but also through his activities within the Italian Party and the Italian labor movement—over the twenty years that have passed since then, he served as a disruptor of those very movements. The lack of time prevents me from thoroughly examining the materials pertaining to the Italian Party; however, one of the most important documents, in my view, is an article published in one of Italy’s bourgeois newspapers—I no longer recall whether it appeared in “La Stampa.”
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