Teddy's reference to the Red Flag was most definitely against communism and 1907 wasn't too early.
Here's some links to give ya a hand.
http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=22&l3=39&top=48 http://www.cyberessays.com/History/106.htm Quote:
Trotsky had gained a leading place
among the Russian Social-Democrats by the time of the Second party
Congress in 1903. He represented ultra-radical sentiment that could
not reconcile itself to Lenin's stress on the party organization.
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Quote:
Twenty-two Bolsheviks,
including Lenin, met in Geneva in August of 1904 to promote the idea
of the highly disciplined party and to urge the reorganization of the
whole Social-Democratic movement on Leninist lines
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Teddy foresaw the danger this represented to his ideal of what the world should be. Unfortunately many people did not and it was allowed to blossom and flourish leading to the cold war.