Foreign News: Answered

To George Bernard Shaw, famed sophisticate, from Grigori Zinoviev, Chief of the Third Internationale, went an answer to the former's sneering criticism of the Bolshevik regime. Said M. Zinoviev: "Shaw, flower of the petty bourgeoisie, considers himself above Karl Marx. But if we compare both, Shaw appears as a scarcely visible dust speck.

"Shaw and Wells (who does not like Karl Marx's beard) think we made an idol of Marx. They forget that the teachings of Marx have conquered a sixth part of the world, and disregard the probability that the masses will eventually take over world power, cutting off many ruling...

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