488 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 489 II To subordinate their personal and group interests to the interests of all the working people of Russia and the whole world. To defend the Republic of the Soviets, the only socialistic bulwark in the capitalistic world, from the attacks of international Imperialism without sparing their own strength and even their own lives.
CONCERNING THE RUSSIAN SOVIETS Section first: Concerning the Suffrage. To keep in mind always and everywhere the sacred duty of liberating labor from the domination of capital, and to strive for the establishment of a world embracing fraternal league of working people.
In proclaiming these rights and duties the Russian Socialist Republic of the Soviets calls upon the working classes of the entire world to accomplish their task to the very end, and in the faith that the Socialist ideal will soon be achieved to write upon their flags the old battle cry of the working people: Proletarians of all lands, unite!
Long live the socialistic world revolution! The right to vote and to be elected to the Soviets is enjoyed by the following citizens of the Russian Socialistic Soviet Republic of both soxes who shall have completed their eighteenth year by the day of the election: All who have acquired the means of living through labor that is productive and useful to society and are members of the trades associations, namely. a) Laborers and employes of all classes who are employed in industry, trade and agriculture. b) Peasants and Cossack agricultural laborers who hire no labor. c) Employes and laborers in the offices of the Soviet government.
II Soldiers of the army and navy of the Soviets. Citizens of the two previous categories who have to any degree lost their capacity to work.
GENERAL PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE RUSSIAN SOCIALISTIC FEDERAL REPUBLIC The fundamental problem of the constitution of the Russian Socialistic Federal Republic involves, in view of the present transition period, the establishment of a dictatorship of the urban and rural proletariat and the poorest peasantry, the power of the All Russian Soviet authority, the crushing of the bourgeoisie, the abolition of the spoliation of men by men and the introduction of Socialism in which there will be neither a division into classes nor a state authority. The Russian Republic is the free socialistic society of all the working people of Russia, united in the urban and rural Soviets. The Soviets of those regions which differentiate themselves by a special form of existence and national character will be united into autonomous regional associations ruled by the sessions of the Soviets of those regions and their executive organs.
II. The following persons enjoy neither the right to vote nor to be voted for, even though they belong to one of the categories enumerated above, namely. 1) Persons who employ hired labor in order to obtain from it an increase in profits. 2) Persons who have an income without doing any work, such as interest from capital, receipts from property, and so on. 3) Private merchants, trade and commercial intermediaries. 4) Employes of communities for religious worship. 5) Employes and agents of the former police, the gendarmerie corps and the Okhrana; also members of the dynasty that formerly ruled in Russia. 6) Persons who have in legal form been declared demented or mentally deficient, and also deaf and dumb persons. 7) Persons who have been punished for selfish or dishonorable misdemeanors. The Soviet associations of the regions participate in the Russian Socialistic Republic upon the basis of federation, at the head of which stand the Pan Russian session of the Soviets and, in periods between the sessions, the Pan Russian Central Executive Committee.