The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-05-14
Russian Soviet
Government Nav
Drop Bolshevism
By Frank J. Taylor

United Press Staff Correspondent
BERLIN, April 19.-(By Mail. y
The Russian soviet government will
abandon bolshevism if it finds that
doctrine is not the proper method to
reach its goal, communism, M. Max
owski, bolshevik secret agent in Ber-
lin said in an interview today.
"The aim of the bolsheviki is com
munism and equality for everybody.
We may find out eventually that boil
shevism is not the proper means for
attaining our end. We will then act
accordingly and somehow reach com
munism by opportunism, but always
work toward communism.
eve believe that ultimately every
thing must be socialized. Everything
must belong to the state and no one
must own anything. A person may
have anything he wants simply by ask
ing for it. That is our utopiam which
we may not reach for iong time, of
course.
"We hold that the greatest enemy
of communism is the capitalistic sys-
TEN. Naturally the capitalists will
not divide up equally SO we are abol-
ishing individual capitalists and max
ing the state the only capitalist,
Since the state exists for everybody
the entire proletariat benefits. We.
make every one proletarian, or work
er, either with their hands or their
heads. The capitalist who has this
wealth taken over by the state be-
comes member of the proletariat as
a skilled head of a plant.
"That is the point we have reached
in Russia. We cannot make the com
plete step to communism in one
stride, so we have begun by socialz-
ng practically all the wealth. A few
industries are still unsocalized. When
they have been taken over, and all
The wealth is taken over and produc-
ion has been brought up to a point
above normal, we will abolish money
and will simply give every man what
ne wants. Until we have produced
enough of everything, so that every
one has all he desires, we will have to
lsemoney or a card system of distri-
button. In some things we already
aave the card system. But we are
automatically getting money out of
use by printing it as fast as we can.
AS soon as we can get more machines
from America we will print still more.
Eventually it will become so plentiful
and worthless that moody will want
it. By that time our system Of state
will be so developed that
here will be more than enough of
he necessities of life for everybody.
Luxuries will be distributed by the
,ard system.
"Of course, our credit with other
will be worthless at first,
Out we will buy what we need with
gold and jewels, which the state now
You can have our gold. We
10 not want it. We are glad to get
rid of it. 1t represents capital and
we will gladly pay you everything we
1ave that represents money value, un-
Ill we have nothing of the kind left.
Then we will deal by credit. The
state will own everything and by then
we figure other states of necessity will
1e in the same status. At least, all
Jf Europe will be so, It cannot pos
,ibly get out from under the debts
which this war has heaped upon it.
"Only communism san cave Eu-
'ope, although Great Britain and
America probably can emerge from
heir load Of debts with a sapitalistic
system, since they are not so far in
lebt and can profit by trade. They
will be the conservative west, which
will be pitted against communist Eu-
'ope."