The daily progressive-miner., 1919-03-25
New Soviet Idea
 Is Class Hatred

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 cont button. It's keynote was cooper ation then. When the Bolsheviti got control of the Soviet they eliminated idea Of cooperation. entirely and sub stituted for 1t the idea of domlna- lien through class war. The simple catchphrase of the eolsheviki was All the power to the Soviets!'
 "The perversion by the Bolsheviki Of the Soviet is perhaps one of the greatest of the 5olshevist crimes.
 "Ths great question at the present time, from our point of view, is whether the SoNet stu makes strong appeal to the Russian workmen and peasants. or is discredited because of the use the BoIsheviki have made of it. What is the actual attitude now of the Petroerad workingman, for ex- ample, toward the Soviet.
 "The reports that we get from men who have been there reeently-not the men who were there in the early months of the 5olshevist power, but >1en who were, there Slast Summer and in the Autumn-are to the effect that the Soviet idea is now discredlted. | personally, on the basis of reports from sources which 1 could not Ignore came around last July to the idea that kntS rfcNra1j&nd the minds of the peasants, and even 'he workmen."
 "lt is this idea, already discredted among the masses of the Russian peo- pie, which, as pr. Harper points out, appears to be animating the work mems and peasants organizations in Germany. And it is in the perversion of the Soviet principle, he adds, that the Rclshevki have both denied the efficacy of the democratic ideal, and failed in what, the world was given to understand. was their aim from the beginning.
 "The BolsheViki have failed" he said "Many people in this country are soft-hearted about them because it is said that they are helping the work ingmau.' eut they have failed, ae- ccrding to everything that l can find out through the most careful study and cross-examination, not at all be- cause they have not been able to eIin- mate the bourgeosie, but because they { have not bettered the conditions of l the workmen and peasants. 1 belong myself to what they would call the 1 bourgeosie, and feel personally very sorry for the bourgeose. But the great failure of the Bolsheviki is not concerned with the bourgeoisie; it is concerned with the masses.
 Denied Our Ideals
 1 "ln denying and dscrediting the so- Viet idea they have denied completely what is our ideal-the ideal of eo-op- eration We believe that the different classes can work together. that actual cooperation is possible and practic- able. That is the end toward which we work. The RolsheWk denies this as a bourgeois dream He insists on class hatred, class war, class rule- which IS preclsely what the Czar 8 autocraey did before him.
 We do not know now whether CT not the discrediting of the Soviet is only temporary. myself believe that, while the word Soviet may be dropped
 he idea of cooperation is so firmly ingrained in the Russian mind that it will prevail in the new Russia. That there will be new Russia, have no doubt. We cannot tell when it may emerge. It is a matter of time. But feel sure that there is no danger either that the old autocratic order will be restored or that the Bolshe- Vist system of class war will endure"
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