The Wrangell sentinel., 1920-05-06

G. Masaryk of the new Czecho-Slo- vakian republic. He is Slav. He knows Russia. He was in Russia dur. ing the revolution and at the begin. ming of the counter-revolution which put bolshevism in the saddle. He has written of Russia and is accepted as an authority on the subject. 1 asked him, What is bolsheyism?" His an swer was: "Bolshevism is consistent socialism,"
 Bolsheyism is an old. untried theory of government. Its object is to secure greater production and more just distribution. Socialism says that men are without motive for effi- cient work today because they do not get a fair share of the things they produce; that the way to stimulate production is to adopt common owner ship. Under such plan, they say, every man would be working for him. self, in the sense that all would be working for the state, and that as all are an equal part of the state their interests would be common and mutual. The socialist says that by working and doing as much as he could he would be helping to shorten the workday, because if all the people of the world were at work they could produce an abundance of everything necessary for the worlds happiness and comfort every one would have all he needed. no one would have more than another and it would be to the interests of each individual to work to shorten his own workday.
 The program of socialism promises to destroy all private ownership. There will be no such thing as private property. No one will own land. The land, the factories, the railroads, the mines, everything, will be owned in common. The state will hold the title to everything. manage everything and distribute the product. This plan nbolishes profits, rent and private cap italiSm.
 Money and Capital.
 To understand this doctrine it Is necessary to clearly know the mean ing of the word Capital Many peo- pie confuse the word "capitaP with the word money" These words have totally different meanings. Money is the metal or paper used by govern ment to make easy the exchange 0f products. Without money the world would go back to the barter system, in which the man who had corn traded it for meat. clothes, and the others things he needed. Capital is the unconsumed product of labor. In other words. all of the food, cloth, clothing machinery. etc., in the world is its capital, just as a mans capital is the food he has in the cupboard, the clothes he hasn't wOrL out, the money in the bank which represents a power to buy. It Is the surplus. It .S the reserve.
 Ilato, the great Greek philosopher. was one of the first of the socialists. In the republic of Plato we find defense of state socialism. From Plato to Lenine men have been urging communism as cure for the ills of the world, as a remedy for wrong, as Il means of realizing exact justice.
 Modern socialism dates from the communist Manifesto" published in 1S4S, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Their outline of the socialist plan seized upon the thought of the
 thnt hns hpnn gathering the dissatisfied of the world and grouping them in class, develop ing what they term a "class con- sciousness." Back of it has been an insstent uninterrupted propaganda which has reached every corner of the globe. Billions of leaflets, pamphlets, tracts and books have been circulated. Millions of speeches have been made. Drawing rooms have been thrown open to it, highbrows have professed the faith, lowbrows have thundered the creed from soapboxes on the street corners. It has flourished best in Europe, It has furnished prime ministers. Its voice today in the par liaments of Europe is not whisper it is shout. In the new govern ments which have come out Of the war 1t is militant, dominant factor.
 The bolshevism of Russia is pure socialism-literal communism. At this moment I am not writing of the meth ods of the bolsheviks. First, l want to make clear and simple their plan. Bolshevism is an effort to put into practice the doctrine preached by Plato, programmed by Marx,
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