But sixty elected persons sitting round a table and calling themselves a municipal Council, cannot arrange the matter on paper. Equally pressing will be the great question of food. During previous revolutionary periods social wealth has been doled out by the authorities in unequal portions. But in the next Revolution even equal money wages will not do. The question of food will become as pressing as it is in a besieged city, and the workmen will demand that the food supply be placed at once at the public disposal for the common consumption.
Most great cities have food for several months stored within reach.
Paris was besieged for six months and not reduced to absolute starvation. Again, in the matter of clothing. When the workers are not labouring, and whilst nothing new can be made, the people must depend for their supply on the things already stored in the shops. Thus from the very beginning the idea of private property necessarily will be shattered, and practical Communism introduced into the daily life of the masses. The like will occur in the reorganisation of production.