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CHAPTER VI
BOLSHEVIK POLITICAL ECONOMY
The Russian Revolution has led to open and undisguised
class warfare : war is waged by the uneducated classes
against those educated classes possessing property. In order
to put down the educated classes, the uneducated, led by
untrained and unbalanced demagogues like Lenin and
Trotsky, made it first of all their business to destroy wealth.
To this effect the right of inheritance and possession was
denounced in imitation of Proudhon’s dictum : " La
propriety c’est le vol." A series of decrees was drawn up to
serve that purpose. Municipalities were empowered to
sequestrate all houses, inhabited or uninhabited, for the
benefit of those who owned no abode or who were living in
overcrowded or unsanitary dwellings ; all factories were
declared to be the possession of the operators working in
them ; all private ownership of land was annulled without
compensation being made to the owners, and the land,
being handed over to the cultivators, became nationalised.
Large landed properties belonging to the State, the Church,
monasteries, and towns were placed at the disposal of land
committees of the Soviets of the Workmen’s and Soldiers’
Delegates; all agricultural machines and implements, by
the decrees of the Government, became the property of the
State, the distribution of which was effected by the same
land committees. State loans were repudiated ; all stock
became valueless. Confiscation of any valuables was
practised on a large scale. To all intents and purposes
this is not communism, but depredation pure and simple,
for the purpose of enriching the class of the workmen,
soldiers, and peasants, and pauperising the educated class.
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