The issues of the Italian newspaper *Soviet* referred to above fully confirm what I said in the pamphlet about the mistake of the Italian Socialist Party in tolerating such members in its ranks and even such a parliamentary group. This is even more fully confirmed by such an outside witness as the Rome correspondent of the English bourgeois-liberal newspaper *The Manchester Guardian*, who in his issue of March 12, 1920, published his interview with Turati.

“…Signor Turati,” writes this correspondent, “believes that the revolutionary danger is not such as to cause unfounded alarm in Italy. The maximalists are playing with the fire of Soviet theories only in order to keep the masses elated and excited. These theories, however, are purely legendary concepts, immature programmes which are unsuited for practical use. They are good only to keep the working classes in a state of expectancy. The very people who use them as a bait to dazzle proletarian eyes find themselves compelled to wage a daily struggle for the conquest of some, often paltry, economic improvements, so as to postpone the moment when the working classes will lose their illusions and their faith in their favourite myths. Hence a long string of strikes of every size and on every pretext, right down to the latest strikes in the postal and railway services—strikes which are making the already hard condition of the country still harder. The country is irritated by the difficulties connected with its Adriatic problem, weighed down by its external debt, its excessive issues of paper money, and yet the country is far from realising the necessity of adopting that discipline in labour which alone can restore order and prosperity…”

It is clear as daylight that the English correspondent blurted out the truth which is probably concealed and embellished both by Turati himself and his bourgeois defenders, aides, and inspirers in Italy. This truth is that the ideas and political work of Messrs. Turati, Treves, Modigliani, Dugoni and Co. are really and truly as the English correspondent depicts them. This is sheer social‑treachery. What is this defence of order and discipline worth for workers who are in wage-slavery, working for the profit of capitalists! And how familiar to us Russians are all these Menshevik speeches! How valuable the admission that the masses are for Soviet power! How stupidly and vulgarly bourgeois the failure to understand the revolutionary role of the spontaneously growing strikes! Yes, yes, the English correspondent of a bourgeois-liberal newspaper has rendered a disservice to Messrs. Turati and Co. and has excellently confirmed the correctness of the demand of Comrade Bordiga and his friends of the newspaper *Soviet* that the Italian Socialist Party, if it really wants to be for the Third International, must expel Messrs. Turati and Co. from its ranks in disgrace and become a Communist Party both in name and in its deeds.