great mass
protests and mass movements of the proletariat. But only an
organization with the sole aim of revolution can take the
responsibility for leadership in this fight."

Granting some truth in the above argument, it is not probable that a
great practical organization like the I. W. W., which _does_ things, and
very rough things, will invite theorists, non-working drones, to come in
and take charge of it. Nor is it willing to be borrowed, and diverted
into an engine to run toy revolutions. This is the substance of the
reply to Ferguson made by Harold Lord Varney in the same magazine. We
quote its pith:

"Like the Left Wingers of the Socialist Party; like the editors and
the writers of the Revolutionary Age and the Class Struggle; like
the Eastmans, the Nearings and the Frainas of our American
movement, my critic is obsessed with Russia. To him, the
Bolshevists and their mass action revolutions are like dazzling,
fiery suns which blind and obscure all rivals....

"As proletarians, I. W. W.'s rejoiced at the Lenine triumph. As
proletarians, we have unwaveringly supported the Bolshevist regime
in all our propaganda. Those of our members who happened to be in
Russia when the October Revolution came (and there were thousands
of them) were all found in the Bolshevist army. Bill Shatoff,
Volodarsky, Martoff, Kornuk and others who have been leaders in the
Bolshevist army were all old members of the I. W. W. In brief,
then, were we in Russia, all I. W. W.'s would be Bolsheviki. But
from this it does not necessarily follow that in America the I. W.
W. must turn Bolshevist also....

"Mr. Ferguson's proposition is that after all these years of
struggle we should now discard this One Big Union goal and unite
with political Socialists to create an American Bolsheviki. And in
that proposal he demonstrates the impractical artlessness of the
Left Winger. The I. W. W. is a Socialist who is a materialist. The
Left Winger is a Socialist who is an ideologist. The I. W. W. seeks
for verities and for concrete, ponderable power. The Left Winger
follows the intoxicating dreams of his own imagination....

"Of course, the I. W. W. wants unity. But we will have no unity
with any who are not willing to accept the proletarian conception
of Socialism. We will have no unity with any who do not