The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
BY EUGENE LYONS
United Press Stan Correspondent


MOSCOW, Feb. 26-The Commu-
mist ideal emissions a society with
out classes, all humankind working
together on terms of equality.
For the present, however, the
soviet population is divided and
Undivided into more classes than
me capitalist world outside.
For the Mar7list under a bourgeois
aystem the rough division of peo-
pie into capitalists and workers. ex-
ploiters and victims, generally suf-
fees.
Here where Marxism is not mere
~ philosophy, but basis for prac-
tlcal action people are split into
AdleSs classes and categories &C
cording TO which they are fed
faxed, given work. trusted or ter
rorized
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such divisions are thoroughly il
me with the logic of Communist
thought. Since the individual counts
for nothing, is only a grain of his
social group or collective, the null
DUPLICATION Of such groups is in
evitable.
Where once there were landlords
and peasants, now we find kulaks
the better-to-do farmers, middle
peasants, poor peasants and batraks
or landless farm hands.
The last two classes are, OF course
The favorites. Upon them the So
Wet regime bases it's plans and its
hopes, upon them it lavishes it's re-
ources.
The middle peasants are har-
rowed and driven lot, poised danger
ously between the blessed poor and
damned kulaks.
KuIaks Are Doomed
AS to these, they are scarcely
better than outlaws and formally
doomed to extinction as a class by
The end of this year, a process of
ruthless eXpurgation already well
started.
In the cities we are confronted
by even more subtle divisions. The
'ishentzl," or disfranchised class,
has various categories, but the diff
terences between them are only
degrees of outlawry and not worth
haggling over.
This class includes the dregs of
the former ruling claSses-ex-aris-
Jocrats, eX-merchant princes,
priests, etc.-and the leavings of
The Nepmen or private traders.
Then come the intellectuals-p
lessons, engineers, technicians, art
ISIS, actors, lawyers, etc.-who are
constantly under suspicion with the
benefit Of doubt usually against
them.
Workers Divided
Deep CULTS yaWn between the real
proletarians, the manual laborers.
on one side and the Office workers on
the other. The former are "rab-
otchi," the latter "sluzeshchi"; the
former alone rule even in theory,
since the dictatorship of the pro
letariat does not include the Office
workers.
Furthermore, the manual work.
erS are divided into those who do
the heavy work in basic industries
and their brethren engaged in
lighter, more skilled tasks.
These distinctions within the
working class itself are not aca-
demic.
They affect food rations, hous-
ing, the chance to obtain clothing,
schooling. In all these matters the
manual worker receives priority.
The political reasons for such
artificial and seemingly ubiquitous
Splintering of he working class
are not far to seek.
The revolution peeded one power
tul group upon wA-vn IL could rely
100 per cent and whose loyalty it
could maintain at the boiling point
always.
The brain workers offered no such
safe reliance. They included large
masses closely tied by their tastes
and mental habits to the bankrupt
past.
Next-Ascendancy of the manual
iabOrer.