456 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 457 Capitalism. The revolutionary Socialist assumes that the process must be a revolutionary process operating upon the basis of the proletarian state a process of reconstruction which alone annihilates Capitalism and introduces Socialism. Moreover,...

458 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 459 sion of the masses, its bureaucracy, and its anti proletarian character. The new state is the state of the organized producers; as the old state was an instrument for the coercion of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie, so the new state is an ins...

460 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 461 measures.
in any sense final, although latent in the general tendency of the While the representation on the local and district organs of control is industrial, the whole system functions territorially and is not yet wholly and integrally indust...

462 463 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION OF RUSSIA by the Soviet officials; and it is a task, international complications aside, upon the success of which depends the immediate success of the proletarian revolution and the Socialist Republic in Russia.
The proletarian revolution in Russia initia...

464 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION OF RUSSIA 465 (11) Workmen District Councils of Control settle all disputes and conflicts between the lower Organs of Control, as well as all complaints made by the owners of undertakings, taking into consideration any peculiar conditions under which producti...

466 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 467 sian republic through specially organized organs. All foreign transactions not known to these organs are prohibited. Note Regulations governing exports and imports by parcel post and of personal baggage will be issued separately. Article The Peo...

468 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 469 commissioners of the National Bank, and all holdings found in them will be confiscated by the National Bank as the property of the people. Note: The investigating commissions may, for weighty reasons, postpone the above liquidation.
This decree ...

470 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 471 National Bank, to which is also given the duty of proceeding at once with the registration of all owners of holdings in state loans, and also other papers bearing interest, whether or not subject to annulment.
11. Soviets of Workers. Soldiers an...

472 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 473 The entire income from each property that yields more than 750 rubles per month is immediately to be paid into the city treasury.
Pay for the rent of quarters, and other forms of income from real estate, is to be made to the house committees. Th...

474 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 475 new application under the present statute; neither shall the publications of summons provided for in paragraphs and be required if publication was made under the former statute.
IV.
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Ordinance issued by the Council of Peopl...

476 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 477 or leaving their employ; b) to furnish detailed reports, on forms prepared by the Insurance Soviet, on the work done in their establishments, on the sum paid as wages to each and every person separately, on each receipt, weekly, from the day of ...

478 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 479 27. In case the organization provided for in paragraph 25 should not accomplish, within a period of one month, the establishment of Unemployment Funds, such shall be established by order of the Labor Commissaires.
28. Infractions of the above sh...

480 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 481 this purpose by the organs of the Soviet government, land committees and other democratic organizations.
VI.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Report on the accomplishments of the government of the Soviet Republic. The possession of the land is to be equal, the l...

482 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 483 Through the creation of Government and district soviets for the regulation of public affairs an organization for conducting the business of the people has been secured. These soviets are elected by the organizations of the workmen and employees ...

RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 485 484 THE CLASS STRUGGLE The separation of church and state was carried out all over Russia without any upheaval; the peasants have adopted civil marriage without much ado.
14. The class struggle was carried into the villages, the question of furnishing the inhabitants ...

486 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 487 Repudiation of the loans which were contracted by the Czar government upon account of the Russian people, thereby to deal a blow to international capital as one of the factors chiefly responsible for the war, Arming of the laborers and peasants ...

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 int...

490 THE CLASS STRUGGLE RECONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIA 491 II VII PRINCIPLES FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE RUSSIAN STATE Defense of the country (army and navy. Social order and security (militia. census of the people, registration of societies and associations, fire department, insurance, organization o...

492 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 493 EDITORIALS The Prospects of Peace The test of an army is in defeat and retreat. Defeat, much more than victory, reveals an army morale and capacity. This is equally true of the international army of the Socialist proletariat, which wages war upon Capitalism a...

494 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 495 creating an appropriate ideology to carry on. Great Britain, France and Italy are not offering their own people, and the world, a definite program on peace, because they, as much as Germany, realize that the final terms will be determined on a military basis....

EDITORIALS 497 496 THE CLASS STRUGGLE Great Britain, France and Italy were pursuing an imperialistic policy: France wanted the Rhine; Italy answered Russia with the practical annexation of Albania. The Tribune is right, acceptance of the Russian peace formula would have included the abandonment o...

498 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 499 other policy on making the world safe for democracy and the self determination of nations. The president has completely reversed his previous policy on Russia. as he did on other occasions, on Mexico and on the war.
The statement announcing this new policy, i...

500 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 501 Spargo, Simons and Private Kopelin One of the American export industries that were created by the war is the sending of missions to Europe. Formerly it was American Dollar diplomacy, the extravagances of our millionaire diplomats, that made the famous. Today ...

502 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 503 acter of these groups than were the Russian Socialists when Root and Russel brought their message to the Russian proletariat.
But this conception of the work of the committee became even more broadly defined when it reached the European shores. According to a...

504 THE CLASS STRUGGLE EDITORIALS 505 The of Labor Mission sia, but only for the uprooting of Bolshevism. Confidence was expressed in Mr. Gompers and in the power of labor to stand with the allied cause. The hearing of the conference on the British labor situation lies in the fact as stated by Wi...