The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-12
BOLSHEVISM
is WONDERFUL
Everybody Can Have Anything They
Want Without Paying For It
and Money Is
Useless.
[By Frank j. Taylor, United Press
Staff Correspondent

[By Frank J. Taylor, United Press
Staff Correspondent
BERLIN. April 10, (by mail) The
Russian soviet government will aban-
con bolsheyism If 1t finds that doc
trine is not the proper method to
reach its goal, Communist NJ. A. Ma
kowski, bolshevik secret agent in
Berlin said in an interview today.
"The bolsheviki have no definite
program, since Premier Lenine holds
that what is medicine for the coun.
try today may be poison tomorrow
and platforms cannot be made perma'
nent." said Makowski.
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.
I'VE 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 by simply
asking for 1t. That is our Utopia
which we may not reach for a Iona
time, of course.
1--WE hold that the greatest enemy
OF communism is the capitalistic sys'
tenn. 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
everyone proletarian or worker, either
with their hands or their heads. The
capitalist who has his wealth taken
over by the state becomes a 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
pletc step to communism in one stride,
SC we have begun by socializing prac-
tically all the wealth. A few indus
tries are still unsocialized. When
they have been taken over, and all
the wealth is taken over and produc-
ton has been brought up to point
above normal, we will abolish money
and will simply give every man what
he wants. Until we have produced
enough Of everything SO that everyone
las all he desires, we will have 70
use money or card system OF dis
tribution. In some things we already
have the card system. But we are
automatically getting money out OF
use by printing 1t as fast as We can.
AS soon as we can get more machines
from America we will print still
r.ore. Eventually it will become 80
plentiful and worthless that nobody
will want 1t. by that time our sys-
tenn Of state production will be SO
developed that there will be more
than enough Of the necessities OF lie
for everyone. The luxuries Will De
distributed by the card system.
"Of course. our credit with other
countries will be worthless at first.
Rut we Will buy what we need with
gold and Jewels which the state now
controls. You can have our gold. We
do not want it. We are glad to get
rid Of 1t. 1t represents capital, ana
we will gladly pay you everything that
represents money value until we have
nothing Of the kind lefta Then we
will deal sby credit. The state VIII
be in thefsame status. At least all OF
Europe will be. 1t cannot possibly get
cut from under the debts which this
war heaped upon 1t.
"Onlv communism can save Europe.
although Great Britain and America
probably can emerge from their load
OF debts with capitalistic system.
since they are not so far in debt and
can profit by trade. They will be the
conservative west. which will be
pitted against communist Europe"