South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-11-16
Russian BOLSheUiki
Dream Shattered, old
Doctrines abandoned

shall have the ultimate division OF /
Observation-Disclosures not only contra /
mundum. but contra bolshevism it
self
Over-Conlident OIigarchs.
The soviet oligarchs, being per-
haps over-confident, are Fastening !
this process by unpopular measures. |
mostly aimed at the consolidation OF !
their power and mostly fatty anti |
bolshevist. That this is so in the |
economic domain ] showed in recent !
articles on the reputation by the !
supreme council OF economy Of all |
those kindly visions which were the |
essence Of original bolshevism. Pro- /
hibition Of strikes. workshop auto !
cracy by experts. labor discipline, !
piece and premium payments en- !
forced minimum output, longer !
hours (since June as hours weekly |
instead OF Sc in industry. and GO I'm !
agriculture), reduction Of the al |
ready meagre rations of shirkers-
all these supposed practices OF
western capitalism (few Of which !
would be tolerated IN the most back
ward capitalistic state) are not only
IN force: they are successfully. de-
mOnstratively in force. They prove
the practical statecraft Of Krasin
and his followers. who reason CO.
gently (Krasins' words) that 'revo-
luton is an exceptional condition
like war, and the sacrifice OF free
dom in revolution may be as neces-
sary as it is in war" And they are
justified by events; the honest work
man who would not tolerate the mild
Prince Lvoff as submissively tolls
for the whip-Sielding Krasin as the
aphis tolls for the ant The excep-
tions TO this. the PutiIof. BOgatyr.
and other brief outbreaks against
the new industrial despotism, were
all puny affairs, easily suppressed.
Reaction i'm Politics.
80 much for industry. The re-
action is quite as emphatic in poll
tics-if i'm a socialist paradise one
can differentiate politics from econ
omy. That this is so come OF the
publications brought to me from
Russia show clearly. The most re-
markable, "a pamphlet from the pen
o. lula worker named GOlubeiff.
with the title. Whittier Goes Soviet
Power" CKuda Idyot Sovietskaya
Vlast, Tula, May 1870, sums up
the new process thus: THE political
communism is quite as dead as the
Industrial communism; indeed. every
policy undertaken in Moscow for
nearly a year past has run directly
counter to the original principles Of
the soviet revolution" To prove this
peoples commissaries has violated
ters in which the government OF
what he calls "the charter Of No
vember. 1917"
Political Backslidings.
This list Of violations contains IS
counts of which l give only the first
few. these being the most import
ant
CD Imperialist Tsarism: this is
shown 10y the governments aggres-
sive foreign policy and its claim 10
determine politics in the now indie
pendent frontier provinces"
CD Secret Diplomacy; except
what filters through from abroad.
nothing is known TO Soviet Russia's
people OF the weekly new negotia-
tons with the beligerent frontier
states and with the entente-imper-
ialists"
ca Capitalization Of Admins
tration: "a relic of tsarism which
bolshevism by its very nature re-
pudiates." CThis reproach is good
history: the first bolshevist republic.
under Lamanoff, the Kronstadt boy
dictator. in June, 1917, declared that
the true soviet state organization
was a congeries of loOsely-linHed
practically Independent small re-
publics.)
ca A Tsarist Police and spy Sys-
tenn" CThis reproach. too, is we'll
based. the estimates for January
June. 1919, assign $40. 600. 600 rou-
bles TO cover a mere half-year's out
lay OF the extraordinary commission
for combating counter-revOlutiOn
(5) Militarism; the red army is
more brutally disciplined, and il
plays a greater role in the state than
the army of Nicholas II.
Less Important Counts.
ne dUONt par tllAAAtStS dlt iLA
own. The Is other counts are less
important: but they confirm the
first impression that the cleft De-
tween the Observation-Disclosures slave
holders and the genuinely bolshe-
visit slaves runs through every
branch of government and that boil
shevistideOlogy and soviet policy live
about as happily together as lived
the nihilist terror with the Roman
| o. despotism.
But the interest OF the pamphlet
/ does not cease there. 10 continues
/ h. the authors panied admission
I that perhaps. after all. the politi-
/ clans are right and the dreamers
/ wronG Golubien who seems TO be
! an unusually cultivated workman.
with a direct style as effective as
TolstOy's tales about peasants, says
I that nc does not venture 20 demand
! the restoration of the old bolshe-
vism. Experience in the first months
I OF the soviet regime showed that
/ that is impracticable. What happen.
ed was for the best. Either the
] bolshevist communistic state In the
/ originai purity had TO collapse and
make way Tor q white coUnter-revo-