Not a day passes without Rech screaming about anarchy, whipping up rumours and reports of casual and minor breaches of the law, and frightening the people with the spectre of a frightened bourgeoisie. They, too, have allowed themselves to be frightened. In some places there is disorderly seizure of the land, and destruction and looting of livestock and farm implements.
Arbitrary action is on the increase.
By arbitrary action the Narodniks and Mensheviks, that is, the parties of the petty bourgeoisie, mean, among other things, the seizure by the peasants in the local areas of all the land without waiting for the Constituent Assembly. But let any Narodnik or Menshevik who wishes to think for himself consider for a minute the following question. Before the revolution the land belonged to the landowners. That was not called anarchy. Obviously, it is not.