"Crucify him!" call the capitalists, trembling for fear of losing their money-bags.
"Crucify him!" call the petty-bourgeoisie, the officers, the anti-semites, the press lackeys of the capitalist class, trembling for the flesh-pots of capitalist class rule.
"Crucify him!" call men like Schiedemann who, like Judas Iscariot, have sold the workers to the capitalist class and are trembling for the shekels of their political power.
"Crucify him!" repeat, like an echo, the duped, the deceived, the misled elements of workers and soldiers, who do not know that they are attacking their own flesh and blood when they attack the Spartacus Union.
In hatred and slander are united against the Spartacus Union all who are counter-revolutionists, enemies of the people, anti-socialists, all who are ambiguous, confused, afraid of light. This only proves that the heart of the revolution is beating in the Spartacus Union, that the future belongs to us.
The Spartacus Union is no party wanting to climb into power on the Shoulders of the mass of workers. The Spartacus Union is only the conscious party of the proletariat. At every turn it calls the attention of the general body of workers to their historic duties. At every stage of the revolution it fights for the final goal of Socialism, and in all national questions it represents the interests of the international revolutionary working class.
The Spartacus Union refuses to share government power with the lackeys of the capitalist class, the Scheidemann-Ebert element, because it sees in such co-operation an act of treason against the basic principles of Socialism, an act calculated to paralyse the revolution and strengthen its enemies.
The Spartacus Union will also refuse to take over the power of government merely because the Scheidemann-Ebert element have completely discredited themselves and the Independent Socialist Party, through the co-operation with them, has reached a blind alley.
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