TUE COM NUNST Four Eccrcmics ard Politics During the Period of Transition It is already In order Onders.
By LENIN. Hand in write a short pampulet the towns. auduf manufactured Rood to we for the Art Ume, and fed better than the town on this stbct the send anulversary of villages dweller. For the first time the peasant beheld the establishment of Sou. et oner, ressure Capitalism Stil Flourisha Among rol actual freedom: freedom to eat his own of work di presented ap from getting boyond the Peasants.
produce, freedom from hunger.
the preminary pretroticu of the material easant production and distribution sul known that equality in the division of land has Thermore hai. Jied to discuss quilo brlei conducted a private trade. 700 capitalist wys bers established on a maxitrallst basis the end in cont femanual consider to le in that domain is very deep and wide.
os jority of the cases the eauarts divide the be the most casenital points of the subject. The spread, and there capitalisme preserved and land according to the number of persons to condensed forra has many drawbacke, but continually resuscitated in Its Alerce binuggle be red bort heuer urli may perhaps. lend it.
wity Communism.
selt to discussions Communists of all lands.
The struggle panifeste Itself in: SOCIALISM ENTAILS THE ABOLITION The Inevitability of a Transition Period (1) hicit trading mestchnitcherlyo. u OF CLASSES.
Thritically be to doubt that there We call 11, a name derived from the word mes.
innt be a transito. reriod between Ditallam lu order to abolish social classes one must trok, ack or BRR.
first overthrow the landowners and capitalista, and Conna Dista. is inevitable that this period (0) Speculation directed as an attack upon We have accomplished this part of the task should have the caracteristics of both social State storake of cereals and siste distribullou but that is only a part. Rud not the most dir.
III. Communism Gradually Triumphing It is inesitate that the iransition period Icull part of our stupendous labor.
Over Capitalism.
to Nould be a period of struggle between the dy abolish classes one must, in the second et us take concrete examples in over to tog Capital and the newly born Communiam, place. Abolish the airterence between the worker illustrate these abstract, theoretical formulas.
or, in orber WUNS, leven the Vanquished, and the peasant, and one must make all the but not destroyed Cantalism, and the newly Aucunding to the statistics of the Comprod people workers.
This cannot be done lui (12. the Commissariat of Supplier) the slate born but as yet knak. Communism hurry. It is inuch harder task than the first, The inevitability of an entire his orir per:ou.
collected and stored from August 1, 1917, to and will consequently, take much longer to ac hearing these transitionai raracteristics must August 1st. 1918; about thirty million poode (a pood Is English pounds) of cord. In the compligt be quite clear not only to Marxists, but to every Collowing year the State stored about 110, 000. It is a task which cany. ot be solved by the estucated person, inore or less acquainted with erthrow of any one class.
000 boods. In the three corresponding months It can only be the theory of development. Nevertheas. al: solved by of the year 1919 to 1920. the supplies have constructive remodelling of the the reasonings and discussions on the transition reached the Ggure of 45. 000. 000 poods, as com entire social economy, by a transition from a to Socialism by contemporary representatives individual pared with 37, 000, 000 poude in the correwpooding small, private trading economy.
of the all bourgeois dernocracy show. com months in 1918 TO social economy on a large scale. Such a plete disregard of this obvious truth. la spite ratsition must recessarily be a lengthy pro These Ogures show clearly a slow, but steady of their suppo Socialist label, all the rep.
improvement and triumph of Communism Cees, and it would only be retarded and ham.
resentatives the Second International, inThis Improvement has been over (wpitalism.
pered by hasty and imprudent administrativo cluding Macdonald. Jean longuet, Kautski au and legislative ineasuros. This transition can Friedricu obtained in spite of almost insuperable di OxeulAdler belong idealogically to tae only be accelerated by helping the peasane to ties caused by the civil war, which Russian and small bourgeois docracy, remodel the entire system.
foreigu capitalists are engineering scalDat the It is characteristic of the small bourgeois ol Workers Republic, using all the resources dernocrats to abbor the slass struggle, to en.
In order to accomplish the second and more the world mightiest powers.
deavor to devis means to avoid it, and to aim difficult task, the proletariat. having cotiquered at conciliation at sinoothing and rounding The Proletarian Dictatorship Assured.
the bourgeoisie, must unswervingly pursue the of all sharp aarle. For this reason such demo There ore, notwithstanding the lies and casollowing line of policy with regard to the lumnies of the bourgeoisle of all lands and of crats either rede o recognize the entire hispeasantry: the proletaria: must distinguish be belpers, the sotheir ayowe or unayowed toric transition period from Capitalism to Com twin the working peasant and the peasant munism. or cousler it their duty to invent cialists of the Second International, the fact owner. the peasant trader and the peasant ape plans for llie corclistion of both warring forces, remains that, as far as the economic problem culator The be all aud end all of Socialismo instead o! 28 ng the leadership of one o!
is concerned, the victory of proletarian dictalies in this distinction.
torsilp, over Capitalism, of Communism them.
It is therefore not surprising that those who Assured. The bourgeoisle of the whole world is 11. Russian Peculiarities do not Alter reuder lip serve to Socialism. but act like infuriated against Bolshevism. against which it Essential Forms smallbourgeois democrats. fail to understand organizes willtary attacks and conspiracies, 50 In Russia the dictatorship of the proletariat this essential of Socialism.
NT as the reconstruction of the Social Order must neuitably differ in some respects frow that of the predominant is concerned, fully aware that our Victory 15 untries, owing to the To arrive at the above mentioned distinction backwardness sed small burgeois character o: Inevitable. unless we are crushed by military is by no meang casy, because in real life, all our country. But the fundamental forces might. It is certain that the bourgeoisio wil: the characteristics of the peasant. no matter and forins a ational economy are the not succeed in crushing us.
SOW various and rontradictory they may be, samo 10 Russia as in every other capitalist country, and Ilow In we hele riready beaten Capitalismi form one big whole. Nevertheless, the distinc.
therefore eriala peculiarities of the Russian is son in the following table of the Central tions are there. They are the inevitable out.
struggle do not aller essentials.
Statistical Department on the production and cone of the conditions of peasant economy and There fundamental forms of social economy Consumption of reals, not in the whole o: Hurant life The working peasant has been are Capitaliso, sarall industrial production aud Soviet Russia, but in 20 of her province (51 oppressed for centuries. the speculators and Connurism. Tliese fundamental forces are: the bordll. the capitalist states, including the most demoBourgeoisie, the smull ourgcnisia KODUCTION, DISTRIBUTIOX, AND OON.
The working peasant has nur (especially critic republics SUMPTION OF CEREALS IX the rear. ntry. and tbe proletariat tured within himsell atred old enmity towards PROVINCCES.
The Economy o! Poesia in the period of probese age long oppressors and exploiters, and letarian dictator hip represents the first steps Producing Provinces these lessons. taught by life itself, compel the 6 6 of communistically uult labor towards pitting 20. Towns. 203 415 peasant to seek an alliance with he workers united nas. Foduction against small private 625. 481. Villages. 28. 16. against the capitalist, the speculator and the enterprise, and Gerinst the still lingering CAPE irader.
20. 40. Towns. 68 20. At the same time, the entire economic talism whicb is behind it.
114. 19. 97. 151. Villages. 13. structure which makes the reasant dependent 11. How Far Fusslan Labor is United 53. 739. Totals. 62. on soods received from outside, tends to turn 69. 741. 18. Salor in Rusala, to day, is communistically minot always, but in the majority cases) inunified precisely to the extent in which: Population. mons. to a trader and speculator (1) Private propris for Production of cercals, not including seeds productive purIROSA has boca abolished.
and forme (raill! on poody. The peasant. wbo in 1915 1919 provided the (2) The State 18 organizing mass production Delivered by the Comprou (million pood. lungry town workers w! th 40 million poods on nation! sale ca Siate lands aud in State Delivered by cit tradors (Bullicu poods. o: corn at the axed government price, by hand6 Enterprisre, and is distribuius lalor Lower Total quantity of rerens utt. Un ci. it over to the state organizations, in true among thu various Jepartments of the population (million poods. Working peasant and a comrade of the Socialist National Economy, and State produce among the work Consumption of cereals per person (poods. worker. He is the latter inost reliable sily, td his brother in the night against the capi State Supplies Half, Illicit Traders Half.
Cr6.
tallst yoke.
Thus the Cornprod (Commissariat of Supply)
On theother hand, the peasant We speak o: the first flops of Commun one ball the provides the towns with nearly ism in Rus3! See who sold suureptitiously 40 million poods of o prorrum adopied in March, 1919. in Vine of the fact that all tbeo supplies, and the Hlicit traders supply the other cori: at a price ten timog ligher than the gor.
couditions have beer: only partially achieved, or, hall. Tires have been arrived at After ement price, who took advantage of the needs in other words ninute examination of food condions of town 21. the hunger of the town worker, who cheat.
that the realisation of tbese. the state, and increased or created every workers iu 1918. 1: must be borne in mind that conditions is only is its Initial stage. What can be achieved at once by a revolutionary act, URS coru supplied ly the State is ten the cheaper when fraud, robbery and scoundrelly tralisac.
than that supplied by been achieved At Once; for instance, between Tb. private traders Lions, is a pleasant project, an ally of the the 2015 October, 2:17. and the 8th November, statement is based on a thorough exaluation capitalista, a class enons of the worker and 1917. u. private land ownership was ałoligbad, of workers budgets.
ait ploiter. Only an exploiter of the hungry and the big land owners were expropriated with Anraraest consideration of these statistics people can speculate with the surplus coru Iron state lundy with the help of implements will provide the investigator with material ex.
oat compensatio.
Io the course of months all the big capitalists, Onors of Taclo.
tew plaining the fundamental caructeristics of pre roduced by the labor of town workers.
ries, work abo. companies, banks, railways and day Russian (conoinics.
THERE IS NO LQL ALITY OF THE Tue Rassino workers have beon Ilboratod at Fo on weto 1159 cipropriated without compou.
HUNGARY AND TIE WELL FED last from the age long exploitation and opres tation. State 82Dization of industrial produc.
tlon on large scale, the transition from work.
Bion of landowuers aud capitalists. This step You are the destroyees of lurty, equality, Ers control to workers management of facto.
forward to real freedoiu and quality, otep deur:ocraly. In the cry raised from all sides born for sniftness and mugitude. unique in ries, workshops and railways, bas, in its moulin and fundamental linen, already been accompthe world history. is ignored by the partie Avainst us. Our detractos point to the Inqul.
lislard of capitalism. Amongst there are the small ity is between the worker aud the peasant, in bourgeois doncrit who talk of liberty Add Agricultural Organization in its ut constitution, to the dispersal of the Con.
equality in the sence of borgeois parliamonlary Initial Stages.
democracy, well thoy wrtly dicloro to be nituent Asserubl. tour forcible requisitions In the agricultural domain, on the other haad, dopocracy in general, or, as Kautsky says, pure o! surpluk oorn. Our answer to these accuse.
the liruck is a, yet in ito Initial stage. Varlow democracy.
tion is that no other state in the whole world furms u!. il agriculturists Associations have The workers who appreciate the importance had doue ho much for the removal of the real AlRo been formed as preliminary to an orxan O! real cquality and freedom, the freedom from freedom Ization o: piros toumuntut lu. Tuis work the qualities and of the real luck is also as yet in the film flug, Thiortue to domination of landowners and capitallois which for centuries bad been the lot of the becauso they have mullered under it. Hinud Oru may be sa of th. Sluto 0164nizatlou of disert for the Soviet power.
work Ink peanut. We do not and will never bition which. Taking the place of the private reconize equally with thu peasant speculator.
10 country of peasants those who bone led trader, this stair zorage und dulivery of cops innat and at once by the dictatorship of the We do not recogniso thouguality of the oxptetor The winter of Soviet Economic ouncils proletariat were the poasenta in general. Under with the exploited, of the entry with the wolland Agricult tbe rule of tho inndowners and capitalist the found the freedoni of the sonner to ROL Uththini Soviet Rusia Agroxat in and 961 respectively: lucrat Russlun prasant WOrungry. Never in the the lattor. Aud we shall deal with those ikhly.
Are wiko 3, 16 grund tax companies or wholu course of Russian bistory has the poovant. stod prople malo du not to understand this wad. Oui (tral Statisticul Departinent in bonus Rllo to work for him. He went hungry din. inco, as if they wo White Guard, even caused at T1 the compilation ul ACL wholu dodelistrid lundrud of tuilloos pood. they call themselves Democrats, Socialista, Kautzl. y. Tchernova lutem national, of curn to the cult for our towns and Hd uplet of 1! Suvi Tonu juu.
fui putih abroad.
al 31 (satu.
Mertoys.
Uudur tho dloutorslip the pruittariut the pealant worked for himse (To be continued. aud