The Washington herald., 1919-02-16
LENINE, BY ROBBING POOR,
SNATCHED RULE IN RUSSIA
Balderston Calls Present Head of Muscovite
Nation the Napoleon of the Proletariat
Consolidated Crumbling Power

enormous Quantities of grain and
other eatables and concentrating IL
In his central depots.
System Extended.
Similar committees OF the poor have
been established in every industrial
concern and in every apartment house
in every town - most Russian town
houses consist of numerous fats. The
poorest inhabitants of the houses, and
the most destitute employees in the in
dustrial concerns. have become MEM
bers of those committees. All the
property in the premises, including
furniture, money merchandise and
even personal clothing, has been de-
clared the property OF the state: regis
tered, and placed under the control Of
the committee of the poor for the
block or building. The committee
watches strictly over all the move
ments Of the inhabitants Of the houses
or flats. and sees that not O single
article ts removed from the premises
without written permission of the
commissionaries of the region. Up
till this system began the citizen. Of
the towns managed to exc out a liy-
ing by gradually selling their belong
ings at the high prices then ruling
This last method OF existence was
thus suppressed. Such were Lenine's
preparations for his determination of
the bourgeoisie.
A Bolshevik writer. n Oslnsky, in
an instructive article. entitled The
Fiery Furnace OF the ProIetariat,' -
and published in the official Bolshevik
organ, "Pravda," of September II
last, sketehed the full program Of Le-
mines coup dc grace. He says:
From the dictatorship Of the pro-
letar1at over the bourgeoisie we have
passed TO the red terror destroying
the bourgeoisie, as a class. so speed
lily that the question OF terror was
discussed at the meetings only a week
after the discussion of the question Of
dictatorship. The object of the pro-
letarian terror is the destruction OF
the active centers OF the bourgeoisie; {;
even more than that, the destruction
or the bourgeoisie as a class. But IL
would be quite a mistake 10 believe
that. for that purpose. the whole of
the bourgeoisie need be physically de-
stroyed. First OF all. the higher and
middle bourgeoisie do not act as an
armed enemy; the big bosses, the
bankers, capitalists, and so en- are
arming others but do not fight them
selves. In most cases they are not
even dangerous as the organizers of
instructions because their profession
Is trade and not guerilla warfare.
They sre dangerous as leaders OF ma
tional economy. AS men who possess
the money and the comforts OF life,
and who can buy everything Their
organizations are dangerous as cen
ters round which the real organizers
and members gather
Dangerous Element.
These latter. the employees and
agents of the bourgeoisie. are much
more dangerous. They are the edu-
Gated men OF higher and middle rank
the salaried, the officers. the village
exploiters. the priests. etc. In most
cases they are considered Socialists. :
only they delay the Introduction Of
Socialism TO future centuries
These strata OF the population pre-
sent the real fighting danger. But
TO destroy them all would mean TO
destroy the trained workers. who are
needfu to every social order. And
1t Is not so easy for the naked eve
TO distinguish where the citizen ends
and the counter revolutionary begins
The above form three foundations
upon which the proletariat has to
build his system OF terror OF the de-
struCtion of the bourKeoisie as a
class. together with it's relations and
onhRngers.
These three methods are indicated
thus The fighting elements must be
physically destroyed. The masses ad-
herring to the capitalist order must
be registered and classified into cate
gories Finally. after all these cate
gories have been deprived OF their
property and all means of existence
they must be placed on a govern
ment ration. and given special pass
ports for doing forced labor under
strict control. Those among them
who may appear to be dangerous 70
the proletarian revolution must be
destroyed or taken as hostages. or
kept in concentration camps. All
three methods should be summarily
applied. The bourEeoisie must he re-
moved from all control of factories
mills or commercial concerns. Their
registration must be placed under the
control of the committees of the POOR.
They must be evicted from their
installed in their stead.
When ny these methods the bour-
geoisie are deprived of their per-
sonaIity. pulverized. placed under
the educational control of the work
ing class, finally deprived Of all
property and obliged to do forced
labor then the hourgeoisie as a class
will die out. It will be a very dif-
ficult and painful process for the
oourgeoisie and their ou.hangerS
They will have to give uB not only
all the comforts OF life to let the
proletariat have as much as they
have. They will have to receive less
than the proletariat. A part OF the
bourgeoiste (perhaps the great"l
part will be transformed into bare
foot paupers. declassed thrown out
of social life. A tireIess watch will
shaved. But only by breaking up the
oourgeoisie as class and casting
the fragments into the melting pot
will the prOletariat be able to trans
form that social class into a cate
CORY OF members useful to society.
That work is politically necessary.
The Russian proletariat here. too,
is obliged to hasten. to advance the
course of events. We have to begin
this work in Russia and TO finish it
as soon as possible before the work
OF melting the bourGeoisie i'm the
proletsrian fiery furnace of the
Western countries will begin"
However incredible it may appear.
the Program, this writer thus out
lined has been fully realized. The
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