Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-03
GERMAN SOCIALIST FLAYS
SOVIET REGIME IN RUSSIA
Rcyeals Bolshcvist Party, Not as
ss Friend Of Labor, but Army of
BurGaucratS.
Goods ARDoR or RADICALS
1dttman's Disclosure Puts Strong
Brakes on Desire Of Working
mon in Germany To Unite Forces
With the Communists.
IBy Universal Service. ]

SStq.fls IBy Universal SCrricc.l
BERLIN. Sept. 2.-Thc Bolshevist
TX OF Communist party. rs it is now
q called. which Is the ruling class In
Russia, consists OF total OF $4,000
members and of that pumhcr only
10000 are active workingmon. OF
. the other S? per cent, $4,000 arc
~ party officials, 1900 are trades
.isupion cooperative officials. 10000
@are military officers, military officials
N or soldiers, i, $4,000 are state ana
i5 municipal officials. and 5000 are as
4 sistants in trade anu commerce. The
entire party is gradually becoming
'an army OF bureaucratic wGo feed
Ion the public.
William pittmau, one OF the lnGe-
S pendent Socialist leaders OF the
ateichstag, who returned with three
bther GeSman radical leaders from
II Moscow, is authority for the above
statement. lie said the figures We're
apbtained from the Bolshevist eSecu-
Rive committee.
Ghills beside ar German Labor.
IN Nothing has SO chilled the grow
|. ins desire of German labor To unite
with communistic Russia, so disillu-
Stoned the German workinEman or
put such strong brakes on the move
Is ment for n political alliance with
Bolshevist Russia as the revelations
IS of Dittmann and others OF the re-
< burning radicals about the actual
! conditions in Russia, especially the
state OF labor under the Communist
regime.
Bitter dsappoin tmcnt and disillu-
sionmcnt come from the group OF Ger
man skilled workmen who recently
& emigrated TO Russia to work. They
Charge they were deceived. Their
& determination 10 return homo has
sEeen given extensive attention by
the German press.
~ THE German proictariat," says
. ;Dittmann. has very distorted views
of the conditions which prevail in
Russia. Sympathy with the Russian
B revolution often misleads TO the most
;ainnzing illusions. One meets the
Z most naive conception that iustiin
( has an abundance of food and natu-
d raj available resources. needing only
& Transportation to be sent from Ger
many to end all misery. Romanti-
cists even dream tina, The Red army
= will march into Germany and unite
& with the German proletariat in
49, Calls Them Mind Drcumcrs.
Blind dreamcrs and crcdulous
fanatics have made Russia into a
country whore ali tho suffering OF
the proletariat is over. Russia l.:
the bright star of hope from which
. redemption issto be gained. All hap
7 piness is expected from Moscow with
almost q religious faith"
Dittmann explained that Russia s
Isolation has made such false con-
ceptions possible. lie described The
( Russian people AZ far behind the
times, as apathctic. illiterate, indif-
ss-ferbnt and Ignorant.
The revolution" he said, was not
: able to change any OF these PRINT
y tive persons. They are not Social
lists. they cTc not communists In
& fact, they haven't any real conccp-
.s1ions in politics or on the state OF
society"
10. lie compared the Russian pessan Is
.with the German peasants of che
Middle Ages.
1.-THE peasants" he continued. now
4 own the land and they do not pay
Il taxes, therefore they iiEh, for tho
Bolshcvists wholly out OF foar that
they will lose their qil.if the noisho-
! visits arc overthroWn. hut. They are
thing else by conviction or reason
ing"
In explaining how tho councils Of
soldiers and workmcn vanished. Dir
mann said:
Rolshcvism Has Failed.
The Bolshevist leaders came 20
n crushing realization that neither
: the stupid peasant masses in the Wiz
lagos. nor tho industrial prolctariat
OF the cities arc rho for or capable
Of democratic self-Eovornmcnt. eth
or politically or economically. I.ol-
3 shevisn, built on Tho creative power
of the masses. dia not stand the tost.
7, 1t failed TX II had TO fam"
He described the Russian masses
as "Cultureiess economically ana po-
s 1iticaliy, ignorant ana without judc-
Inent and therefore Incapable OF
action"
He said that all Offices are filled
from the membership roll OF the
Communist party and that there is
already talk OF Soviet bourgooisc.
In scarcely 100 600 workmcn there
are $4,000 officials. / was told that
I where formerly ten or twelve loafcd
. mat now sixty to eighty are in ench
others way. 1t il impossible 10 ex-
cludo incapacity, sabotage ana cor
ruption out OF so gigantic bureau
! cratic machine"
Dittmann tells the German work e
Ing men and working women that
they are far above the russians of
their station and that the German
would find that subordinatlou under
1.-The Russian system would De com
x pulsion.
Dittmann's expose has struck the
German radicals ike an icy shower.
lit has split the Independent Social
ist party and has relieved the gov
~ eminent OF much OF the pressure
which was fortng it toward Russia.
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