The Socialists were increasingly hostile to the Soviet Republic. When I first came back from my trip to Russia one of the Social. ist Party leaders I met asked me for an interview. Why yes, I told him. I give interviews to the capitalist papers, why not to you? I went up to the office, and there were Abe Cahan, George Goebel, Charlie Erwin and others, and all began attacking me at once. How could I support Lenin? How could I defend the Soviets' lack of democracy? Abe Cahan hinted that I was really too old to know what it was all about anyway. Let's see, he said, How many years is it now that you have been around agitat- ing and organizing strikes? Just about as long as you have, Abe Cahan, I flashed back.
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Abraham Cahan was American lithuanian-born jewish american novelist. Abraham "Abe" Cahan was a Lithuanian-born Jewish-American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician. Cahan was one of the founders of The Forward, an American Yiddish publication, and was its editor-in-chief for 43 years. Read more on Wikipedia →