from the countries split off
from the former Russian empire and some Scandinavian and Balkan
countries. The Third International also includes the Labor party of
Norway and the Communist Labor party of Poland. Of the other
important countries, the Socialist parties of Switzerland, Italy
and the United States, and the British Socialist party have
expressed their intention to affiliate with it.

"The Moscow organization is virile and aggressive, inspired as it
is by the militant idealism of the Russian revolution. It is,
however, at this time only a nucleus of a Socialist International,
and its progress is largely impeded by the attitude of its present
governing committee, which seems inclined to impose upon all
affiliated bodies the formula of the Russian revolution 'The
dictatorship of the proletariat in the form of Soviet power.'

"The Independent Socialist party of Germany, the Socialist party of
France and the Independent Labor party of Great Britain are
unaffiliated. They have initiated a movement to unite all truly
Socialist parties of the world, including those represented in the
Moscow organization, into one International.

"At no time was an active and effective organization of a Socialist
International more vitally necessary for the success of Socialism
than at this crucial period of the world's history. Socialism is in
complete control in the great country of Russia. It is represented
in the bourgeois governments of several important countries of
Europe. The Socialists constitute the leading opposition parties in
most of the remaining modern countries. It should be the task of
the Socialist International to aid our Comrades in Russia to
maintain and fortify their political control and to improve and
stabilize the economic and social conditions of their country by
forcing the great powers of Europe and America to abandon the
dastardly policy of intrigue, war and starvation blockade against
Soviet Russia. It should be its task to help the Socialists in
countries of divided political control to institute full and true
Socialist governments, and to support the struggles of the
Socialists in the capitalist-controlled countries, so that they may
more speedily secure victory for the workers in their countries.

"But above all a true Soci