The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-03-05
BY n. Bukharin.
Communism in the Domains of
Production and Distribution.

Soviet Government the ground that the Offca Commun
ISM of the Boshevks is nothing than communism of
distribution The Soviet power these critics has merely
effected universal dvdingup it has shared out housing
accomodao furniture clothing food ETC. On the ether hand
the chief afk of true Communism should be the organization
OF productob The Bohevks, told think chiefly of or
gansng dFbuon By degrees they transform the plole-
tariat which has hitherto been class of producers info non
working class de owing to lack of fuel other raw mater
s penslohed by the State The proearat becomes social
stratum resembling the pOetarat of classical Rome sunpored
by doles.
How ml ch truth is there all this and how much false
hood? Whatf be the relationship from the MslXist
look betwee the Communism of production and the Communism
of distribution
1t is pbviosy impossible to deny that the Soviet Govern
ment has taken various steps in the direction of expopaton
not merely of the of production but likewise of the means
Of distribution. Typical instances of such measures are the
installation of the workers and their organizations bourgeois
dwelling bouses and raonng by class that say the
signing of larger food raons to members of the poeariat
But only one who is absolutely ignorant of the specific
dons in which the International Revolution developing could
possibly maintain that these are unjust MarXsm is
founded the theory of the increase productive forces
human society," AS have shown the previous article it does
not follow that need dread transient decline the forces of
production decline which absolutely inevitable in the
Of the Revolution BY parity OF reasoning chief am the
organisation OF production, may require, stage in it's full
fment the communism of distribution to which our critics refer
The Revolution historical fact, has originated amidst
the overwhelming devastation resulting from the mperast war
AS knows this devastation has in large part taken
the form of the destruction of productive
forces Now what do these productive forces which are the
foundation of all progress represent in the world of concrete
reay In part they the of production ard in part
they the bour Of the workers The productive forces
do not consist of machines merely but in addition they con-
s of the workers. the working class Marx has shown more
than contemporary society," the proetariat is the
most ir al r0ddetis II f easy to dfde
stand that the Revolution at it's outset inevitably involves
Of
all that humanity possible to safeguard to maintain, to pre-
from utter run this most important element in the forces
production the working class itself The preservation of the
working class indispensable condition for the reconstruction
Of the productive apparatus of society,"
The bourgeo endeavos to throw the whole cost of the
upon the working In relation to the powers of the
workers. the economic system of the Dcnrgeoisie is what the
Germans call "Raubwirtschs" robbr economy But, a.
matter of Proeti Government must make titanic
efforts to maintain the power of the workers intact During the
period of unparalleled mpavelsnmen which resources
have so terribly reduced there only way in which
this task can be performed The poearan must be placed in
privileged position must least be enabled live
quite well the hungry bourgeois All that is possible must
the protarat in order to make for the prevail
ING nsuciency of food clothing and shelter IT, for brief
period should impossible to continue the productive
supply of food clothing and shelter land the impossbly in
existing circumstances obvious) there remains only
alternative The objects of distribution must be reaotted among
the various classes There must be compulsory appropriation
Of these articles and proper supply the poletaat must be
organized In short must practise the Communism Of Dis
tribution"
In practising this Communism of distribution ultimate
aim to promote the development of the forces of production
other words during this period u mpovershmen and famine
the socaed Communism OF distribution is necessary stage
the way to true Communism, the way to productive Com
munism. i. 81. ..,.
As matter of course the lower middle class must not be
affected by this appropriation 1t is equally matter Of
that in the colossal upheav of the Revolution there have been
thousands of instances which this rule has been broken Yet
pedant would repudate the Revolution simply be-
cause the Revolution had not been achieved with that perfect
orderliness we might desideiate.
To sum up the concrete conditions of time the wide
spread mpovershnen that exists compel to expoprate the
means Of distribution less than the of productions
The working class is the fundamental force Of production and
the expopaon of the of distribution essential to the
Of the working class.
t H.
THE PROLETARIAN AND MlIlTARIST CHARACTER OIL
THE DICTATORSHIP CT THE WORLD REVOl UTION /
We come length to series of questions which closely
We accused of variety of sins is said
that make improper of the power Of Party that
oligarchs terrorsts practise Socialism Of
mtas type The last accusation is quaint in the mouth of
Imperast and Royast Socialist etc. We need not waste time