Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-10
Have 0bediant Army and
What Appears to Be Nucleus
of Nations Says Man Who
interviewed Present Ruler.
ORIGINAL S0VIETS
ARE ALL OVERTHROW
BourgeoiSe Are Fast Drifting
Back Into Control of Indus
try Through Medium of Peo-
PIES COmmissaries.
BY Robert Minor.
Copyright, 1919. by the Press Publish
ing Co.
(The New York WORLDLY

tThe New York World.)
Especial Gable Dispatch to New York
World and Albuquerque Journal)
Berlin, Feb. 81 wish to follow the
interview with Nikolai Lenin, the
Russian Bolshevist dictator which |
cabled, with an analysis of the situa-
tlon in Russia, which seems not to be
understood. Bolsheyis min Russia is
not what 1t appears to be, being neith-
er what its enemies detest nor what
its friends admire.
Estimates of Russia made half
year ago are no longer OF much value.
There has been a strange, twisting
sort of government and a sleight-of-
hand, so-called dictatorship of the
proletariat has become the govern
ment 1t is government by ."peo-
pies commissaries, in which Lenin
Figures as our Teacher 1t may be
remembered that the czar used to be
called the Little Father"
In place of enjoying the millennium
of which the socialists have dreamed.
Russia has fallen under the dread
tyrany of the commissaries but COM
pared with earlier standards, you may
see a ragged but fairly robust little
republic with painfully acute of
government ownership.
1t is true that the bourgeoisie as
bourgeosie are disfranchised under
the soviet scheme of government, but
actually, men of the bourgeois class
are fast drifting back INTO control of
Russian industry as peoples COM
missaries," and thus they have active
participation in affairs of the state.
Red Army Obcys Lcnin.
The sovlets, which We're once the
Spontaneous expression of rebellion
against the old order, representing
the will of one class to rule, have been
whipped by Lenn into shape bear
ing considerable resemblance to an
OF dinary congress. Lenin has the So
viets 50 firmly in hand that he is con-
sidering making peace with the
world by means of the payment of
Russia s old debts
He is also ready to allow the claims
of foreign investors, and he has the
red army so disciplined that it will
carry out orders which no one would
have dared given a year ago, when the
would-be statesmen had not yet got
control and had not subordinated the
soviets. Ii Is a new condition in Rus
sia. difficult for outsiders to sec
through the maze of war-whoop
phraseology which has become the
Russian state language.
| am convinced that such language
has become more or less a permanent
institution. SO whoever wishes to dis
cern the facts must see through the
language. Perhaps none will rule
eastern or central Europe for a long
time without using socialist phrases.
This does not necessarily imply kreat
social change; it Is merely matter
of phraseology.
Lenin's Boshevik state, once half
fictitious, has become pretty much
reality. The initiative, which used to
he exercised in the streets, has been
transferred back to government halls.
Disorder has practically ceased within
the acknowledged jurisdiction of the
government. When the red flags wave
in Moscow all is harmonious and Of
ficial and well policed.
Lenin's interest is now centered on
maintaining and protecting his little
government ownership of everything.
1t is an experiment in state building.
Now his chief aim is to protect his
state from invasion.
Quite q spectacle was presented at
the government-direct celebration
of the anniversary of its own estab-
lishment, The government provided
the regalia and organized the parades.
Supposedly. the affair was in honor
of the beginning of government by So
viets; actually, 1t celebrated the end
of the old soviet rule and the begin
ming of the rule of the peoples COM
missaries.
Original Soyiets Anarchists.
Yet the demonstrations seemed to
have popular support In one pro-
vincial school the children were called
out to parade in honor of the revolu
ton. The kiddies We're delighted with
the red banners provided by the au-
thorities, crammed with eight-sylla-
bled words of stereotyped rebellion.
Ali went well until the supervising
commissary noticed an unofficial ban
ner reading: Long live the
soviets; Down with the ruling
commissary class," No police of the
czar ever hunted down socialist
| harder than the Rolshevik police ran
lown the perpetrator of his seditious
act. SO Russia has come p long way
since the sovie's grew spontaneously,
afte rthe first Russian revdlution.
The Bolshevik leaders are not re-
sponsibie for the existence of the So
viets. They did not invent them or
even control them for several months
after becoming the supposed rulers.