The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1920-10-07
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in
Europe Follow the Great
World War;
HUMAN NATURE VS.. IDEALIsM
cemmunlstie Theory o. Ownership Of
Land, Put 70 thS Tsst In Russia,
Has PROVED Dire Failure
In praetIos.
Article XVI.
D. FRANK coMERFoRp.

~ FRANK COMERFoRD.
The bolsbevik government seized In
dustry; the working men took owe,
the factories. 1t was part Of the plan
OF communism. The promise was that
the specialization Of industry would In.
crease production and free the work.
ers from exploitation. The owners and
managers were driven from the plants
These men were q the bourgeois class
They had no place In the new scheme
| Of things. They were tainted" with
success. They had intelligently and
ehacientiy built up their industries.
This was enough. The bolshevik gov
eminent denied them cItisenship and
drove them from the enterprises they
had built.
Everything was to be owned In
common private property Of all kinds
had been abolished. Tho men who
worked In the factories or mills were
to be their own bosses. They were
part Of the state. and the state ewned
and operated everything. The gov
eminent Of the factory was 10 be BY
committee every man was the equal
OF every other man; orders were given
and orders taken with this thought In
mind. The result was insubordina-
ton Every man was boss; all sys,
tenn banished; system made slaves
Down with systemi The business
brains having been driven ont, insub-
ordination having come in. protfuc-
tion declined until II almost ceased
many workers gave up In disgust and
returned to their villages The exodus
from Petrograd was marked. Prior
to 1918 Petrograd was city Of nearly
2,000,O00. In 1918 Its population had
shrunk to less than 100000. Fac
tories closed. Agnin the theory of
communism, when put to the test,
failed.
Trotxky Had Remedy.
Trotzky. In cOnfesslng the failure OF
the bolshevik program to successfully
soclallze industry, charged It to the
sabotage OF the intellectuals." BY
this he meant that the bolsheviks
drove the specialists. the technIcians
and managers Of industry, out OF busl-
ness; that the working men, mot hav-
Ing the training for these places re-
curing special skill and knowledge.
We're unable efficiently and successfully
TO carry on the business. Having
pointed out the cause Of the failure,
he presented remedy. He truly said
that the intellectuals have the benefit
OF special training education and ex-
perlence, and that shops and factories
filled with machines. material and
working men. cannot be run without
the skilled manager. the intelligent.
experienced foreman. But Trotzky
has not lost faith In the plan Of In
dustrlal communism, nor has he lost
belief In the theory that 1t can he
made to Increase production. He
says that the bourgeois brains. when
forced into the factories by the state,
do not work with the same ambition
to make success Of the business that |
they did when II was their private |
property and they had personal-profit |
interest In Its success, Thus they !
are guilty Of Withholding their best |
from factory management under the
bolshevik scheme of communism.
This he calls the sabotage OF the In
To eliminate this diff
Guilty he proposes that the bolshevik
government turn its attention to the
of the working men. pro-
IA hVNte nd |
teaching business management, and
IN this manner make competent man.
ayers and technical experts out OF
II Is his opinion that
educated to he experts
md managers would retain their class
sympathy and their interest In the sue
'ess OF the class struggle.
Had Forgotten Human Nature
The bolsheviks are strong on theory.
rrotzky fails to take into considern- II
ion some simple fundamental truths.
Ie fails TO reckon with human ma
ure as II Is. He thinks OF II ms II |
hould be. Let us take an example
fhich illustrates and emphasizes the
Inference between bolshevik theory
nd practical experience. Let us sup
ose that the hoishevik government es-
ablishes schools for the purpose OF {
men In business management !
nd for technical work. Then enroll {
\ these schools workingmen who, at
he time. are entirely 'ciass con-
cious." They are ardent communists |
hen they enter the front door OF the
chool on the first day of their attend I
nee They attend school for several I
ears. The time spent In school and I
he education given to the men makes
change In them. They become con-
cious Of the power OF education, of
heir fitness for better class OF s
FORK. Education gives them a sense I
I superiority, and do not mean {
uperiorIty in the arrogant or boastful |
ense. The trained mind Is conscious 9
{ training. II Is 4 more ambitious
lind. The men are not less human. J
hey want to ct ont Of education ma
NAL booe0tA They feel the senno
2 la~A~eehln w. thNy RrnduatA