The Clio messenger., 1920-08-05
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction in
III Europe Follow the Great
amod ,aoi no4iW World War7ord s'l.- sTsq - I,
CLASH OF FACT AND THEORY
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egIsgT ! Takes No Thought ooyerlooksod
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Article XIV.
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lvik government was born ON Dec.n
f9l7, thed b0lsheviK government yabol'
igshed prfvate ownership OF land, de-
claring DIR real estnte the property of
, the stuts:h on February 1ey 1913, etaey
issued aio decree declaring yaIla state
loans. internal and foreign. null and
IIRoad. confScating an maritime enters
70 prises Iand AL Kptleate1 banks oto the
I state. ando hatidnaA2ing lf6feign ttfudei
81 topstitutf6h : oestaBlishef the
yeahmnnfsm' Of eihtnd) In The feir6wing
SSr6Jds!su 10 ,weIfn9A "a q -sTM bu
III .Foat' r. the he bafpose 81 qttSfni1stfe 20;
Ecfaizati6hf Of fand. {iif hprivhte prop
+ ,erty In land Is abolIshed aud the en-
tire land is declared tbrbe national
pyoperfy, iahd ifs to- he 9appertiouet
sanfung agfftaaturfsts 9athoW hntaco,nF
pehsatidA toefhe former oaHheesl in the
treasur,e OF each zones raBeity to- fill
II" nj b9-inu sgw sH .0&G1 .0&
fI Theo beashnfs Of oRdssfa Seized the
land. they 'wilfigy : followed this
2comnhhdn Of the new order, but they
T did NOT take the Lard .las s.cohinfihity.
y property. They are not ? cornnihnists.o
Their experience WITH coihrndnalDI
owning had never satisfied Yhem. Tn
der the old regime the PEASANTS were
allotted land by the communal MIR.
The Mir held title TO, the land and di-
vided It by Tot The .tenHney OF a FARM
err on me land was 'dhcertalnh under
the Mir system. The average length Of
!, the lease was about thirteen years.
| Then came a new dfstr4buiion OF the
| Mir fapd. a new dfa wing: The peasant
was Ir6nipefied to niove1 to otlie new
Strip Of tand allotted TO hirns from the
| drawing THIS iplan took from THE
peasant all Intiiicemeht 70 put his best
{ into the land. He had mo- motive for
improving the lanf5itih|as not his.
nAt the aext dfafsang it woiiId probably
I 90 acknowledgement he an turn he shift
ed or, "a Iiiete ,pfnlarId which hatj been
negIected9 and allowed TO deteriofate0
@ESpertente fired the peasantawith one
'tfoughts one anbitfons TO own his, own
|. land to b have IA spermaHent, n home.
/ something ito workonn and work, fory
I SO atg.fhe outset sofy the aprogram TO
/ socinBzeYthe Gland we 9ndl the bolshe,
lvik .gdverpmentt attembtingsa a comnIpn-,
/ isticipngram aeamnletelyI atInltta.gonisticc, MT.
to the wishes rpfs the peasants, sds o.
[3hi He'd ITO General Disorder.tirg .
Between dthe. villages Ia nRussia Are
The 1greatniandedl iestates. the proprir
Y.etary 5and.i These lands were the best J
lands rim heryicinityilandi were well
cared sOr.H When the order to- seize, i,
= the land was givepi the peasants tyrn-ri
ed toyarflfthe fprGpriethry riandsi The 4
tlllages fought with each ether. for the
pbssessiDrfo division n Of these
tempting estates. This was the begln-tI
ningsof general disorder. small civil
warnos snO ,d9iK .g!oosuT 3G i
The hoishevikl goyarnfnentr attempt
ed to force It's ;program abolishing all
private sCwnershjpobfGland! They jus
tlfiedi swconfscntion Of land, the
? 'p1anuof tando comnunlsms by saying
that stheheartfi belonged to the people
that private tttleT to- land was Immoral
and gcorrupt.s that every, imam should \
have all the land he could actuaHy
work, ahdpn6f an acre more Theyyarrd
1gledI that fda imam yhadB more land
than he, could work. one of two things
would happen; either he would allow
the land to remain Idle, which would
DE a waste. yor ,he you'd hire, someone
10 work II for him A. fhey said tie hired
man wegld qbe either a. farm dlsborery
Or a otffpant; bwhicbeyer, relation, be
bore, ITO the r owns5 OF the, land he ]
would ohe compelledo TO- turn oyer part /
Of bis labor to the lanjd1oYner>, Ip pne
Ease II YYolId be called rent while II !
Ne creeeiYes, wa gesy the wages would
represent . something less. than the,
value of the hired mans crop, This.
would be the profit taken by the land
pwner. They called this exploiting the
sworker. Instead of this condition. they
reasoned that the. farm hand should
work this land, mt keep the tfnH prod
net for, the state In the plan OF dis
tribdtf6n TIE state. the owner Or fietetr
thing profffised 8h iediidl dIstrfBdtidn 4
Ihae fIbfshe4Gs Srgfed TINT their plan
wo}{Id fnakb afbetteflu citizen h6ht OF 1
the iiired nan and gffe him an fnduee5
m6fit 10 work, Ife was NOT 70 work
for fiifffselt.n bit sfor 9hie good fof Ant |
II was II ifihe BIT of itieallsm. bat en-
tIrely eohtraryrt III human nature. 1t
had to be worked out by lfnman be-
ings. Two things happened. One class
OF peasantsd &6rkAdV tlteO oahd only
enough to produce what they and their
families needed They reasonedy s'WhS
should we work after aulT nerds are
suppfled7s Tlhsolnatural oattiude OF |
mind reduced prodnction Fheo fheoty
whiohp brentisedI dncruHsfSlJ JproiInctlon,
In ppacslee dgeeansGii production.
Refused 70 Share with State.
fApdthsp class " peasaAtsfweht onto
me ifantf hifd1 Worried nhs+d and pro-
duced much. but they rsftised 10 'En-e
up the product Of their labor to the
state. They reasoned that the result