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[58] Lenine, _The Soviets at Work_.
[59] Wilhelm Liebknecht, _No Compromise, No Political Trading_, p. 30.
[60] _Socialism: a Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles_, by John Spargo, p. 215 (1st edition Macmillan, 1916).
[61] Liebknecht, _No Compromise, No Political Trading_, p. 16.
[62] Liebknecht, _No Compromise, No Political Trading_, p. 28.
[63] This subject is treated in the following, among others, of my books:
_Socialism: a Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles_; _Applied Socialism_; _Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism, and Socialism_; _Elements of Socialism_ (Spargo and Arner), and _Social Democracy Explained_.
[64] _The New International_, July 23, 1917.
[65] Conversation with Trotzky reported by E.A. Ross, _Russia in Upheaval_, p. 208.
[66] Kautsky, _The Social Revolution_, p. 137.
[67] Lenine, _The Soviets at Work_.
[68] Lenine, _op. cit._
[69] Lenine, _op. cit._
[70] The best expositions of Guild Socialism are _Self-Government in Industry_, by G.D.H. Cole, and _National Guilds_, by S.G. Hobson, edited by A.R. Orage.
[71] Lenine, _op. cit._
[72] Lenine, _op. cit._
[73] Lenine, _op. cit._
[74] Lenine, _op. cit._
[75] Lenine, _op. cit._
[76] Of course, Trotzky's statement to Professor Ross about paying the capitalists "5 or 6 per cent. a year" was frankly a compromise.
[77] E.A. Ross, _Russia in Upheaval_, pp. 206-207.
[78] Litvinov, _The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Rise and Meaning_, p. 39.
[79] Marx and Engels speak of the "idiocy of rural life" from which capitalism, through the concentration of agriculture and the abolition of small holdings, would rescue the peasant proprietors (_Communist Manifesto_). In _Capital_ Marx speaks of the manner in which modern industry "annihilates the peasant, _the bulwark of the old society_" (Vol.
I, p. 513). Liebknecht says that in 1848 it was the _city_ which overthrew the corrupt citizen king and the _country_ which overthrew the new republic, chose Louis Bonaparte and prepared the way for the Empire. "The French peasantry created an empire through their blind fear of proletarian Socialism" (_Die Grund und Bodenfrage_). Kautsky wrote, "Peasants who feel that they are not proletarians, but true peasants, are not only not to be won over to our cause, _but belong to our most dangerous adversaries_"
(_Dat Erfurter Programm und die Land-agitation_). It would be easy to compile a volume of such utterances.
[80] Walling, _Russia's Message_, p. 118. The italics are mine.
[81] "Cabinet lands" are the crown lands, property of the Czar and royal family.
[82] Ross, _op. cit._, pp. 206-207.
[83] _Justice_, London, August 1, 1917.
[84] The figures given are quoted by Sack, in _The Birth of Russian Democracy_, and were originally published by the Bolshevist Commissaire of Commerce.
[85] _Parvus et le Parti Socialiste Danois_, by P.G. La Chesnais.
[86] La Chesnais, _op. cit._
[87] In "_L'Humanite_," article condensed in _Justice_, January 31, 1918.
[88] International Notes, _Justice_, January 3, 1918.
[89] _The Disarmament Cry_, by N. Lenine, in _The Cla.s.s Struggle_, May-June, 1918.
[90] _The "Disarmament" Cry_, by N. Lenine, _The Cla.s.s Struggle_, May-June, 1918.
[91] Most, if not all, dates in this doc.u.ment are given as in the Russian calendar, which is thirteen days behind ours.
[92] This refers, doubtless, to the different basis for voting applied to the peasants and the industrial workers, as provided in the Soviet Const.i.tution.
