Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-24
MEANING OF BoLSHEvlSM.
Here Is a Summary Of the Different
Socialistic Doctrines.

SocldilStlC OoctTiheS.
Despite countless explanations, hos
tile and friendly, many Americans
still confess their inability to compre-
hend the phenomenon of Bolshevism.
Numerous readers OF the Daily
News have written to ask what. essen
TALLY, is u Bolshevik-in Russia, Ger
many or elsewhere.
Whatever the original or technical
definition of the term may have been.
Bolshevism signifies today the follow
ing set of doctrines:
FIRST. Socialism as taught by Marx
i'm his Capital and Communist Man
ifcsto" is proclaimed the sovereign
cure for all social and economic Ills.
Hence, Il socialist republic should be
established at once, advantage being
taken Of the historic opportunity Gre
ated by the collapse of the European
Iautocracies and military castes. Ma
tiOnalism is to be superseded by So
called intcrnationalism, the fratcrnall-
zation of the proletariat of all nations
Second. MARKHAM socialism prcscribes
seizure and naturalization of all pri-
vate capital--all the means of produc-
ton. Land, mines, factories. stores,
warehouses, shipping, public utilities,
therefore. are TO be taken over by the
socialist state without compensation.
Not that socialism excludes the idea OF
compensation; for under certain con-
ditions even Marxians are willing to
pay for private property in order TO
escape violence and disorder. But at
Il time of upheaval and revolution, the
Bolshevist leaders contend, compensa-
ton is unnecessary and sentimental
They scorn bourgeois morality"
Third. If the troops and middle
classes offer resistance to appropriation
or to the Socialistic republic, Bolshe-
visits hold, they are to be treated as
counter revolutionists, enemies Of the
new social order. They are therefore
entitled to no consideration. They
must submit Internationally or they
perish. Revolutionary leaders have no
TlHHI W ulSIlslN NtshhhSoo s'AtN 49,
timentality. Terror is held to be as
iustihable against recalcitrant capital
lists and the bourgeoisie as against
.tyrannical cZars.
/ -Ea,s-fh. -.Ahctt Gu ~ nor t!se s's-|ceEhi
cd hourScOiSi" and aristocrats resist
the efforts of Socialist leaders I" rStah-
liSh their MarXian republic. for III"
time being and for an indefinite period
to come th,y must hr excluded from
lruwcr and diStriuchiScd. The tr,uSi-
tiun from the present order tu IN" new
mus, hr Guided AMI effected solely 10y
the prul"iarIIt~-i in reality. of course.
by Il few maStcrful and arrogant non
workers who profess to represent ih'
lrolctariar and no m"r" bourgeois or
ariStoCI;tt must lee suffered to hay" -
Voice IN government ur legislation dur
ing the entire critical period of read
iustmrnt. In short. tn" dictatorship of
the rrnlctariat must Supcrs,dc the die
taturShip Of the autuCr;lt or III" militia
~ dcSpnt. opposition 10 such rr"l"-
tartan dictatorship is punishable as
treason L. the Socialist republic. Som"
time in the distant futur" tn" "Xpro-
rriatcd hnrlr=cuiSir may Ice rcadmittcd
into the social union.
The foregoing points sam up RoI-
ShcliSm The S"ntimvnia!iSiS VII"
apolugiZc for IN" L,niur and l.ich-
kncchtS Icy plcaIin': that after all. they
are idraiiStS ami uohl" dr"dm"rS. for
get. or do not care tn know. that they
ar, also ruthless advocates of mass
terror" and mcrcil-SS suppression of
all civil and political rights, In" rights
of free speech and free assembly not
excepted. and that they r"rudiate and
aIhor genuinely dcmucrati" and fire"
government.
Why has Lenin" been able to in
trench himself in power while teach
Ing such doctrines aS these" RrcatS"
he has fed the land hunger Of the pea
SAINTS. who are in the "v"rwhclminS
majority. They have seized and par
cvlcd out the great estates Of Russia.
They know nothing about MARKHAM SO
,raliSm. hut they uphold Lcninc be-
cause they intend To keep tn" land
which Leninr permits them To hold
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