Party of Russia, he it was who controlled the machinery of the party and government; he appointed the committees and offtcials; he, it was, who corres. ponded with the party "local and Soviets throughout the country. Stalin, the harsh man whom Lenin would have had replaced, became the virtual dicta-for of Soviet Ru And Stalin's communism, Troteky has rightfully asserted, would not have pleased Lenin. For, just as Stalin has been constantly moving in the direction of capitalism, so he has bei seeking a reorientation of Soviet policy away from the purely propagandistic activities of the Third International and the Soviet Foreign Office. The failure of Soviet policy in Europe and Asia, particularly the expulsion of the Soviet officials from Great Britain and China, will strengthen Stalin's position... but they will inevitably destroy the communism of the Communist Party of Russia, for the Russian people have been betrayed by reports of false victories and now they know how miserably Russia. has been defeated everywhere. Millions of the money of the Russian peasants and workers, millions of roubles which should have been devoted to internal reconstruction, have—_ been squandered on Third International propaganda, upon civil wars in various countries, upon nationalistic rebellions in Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, and China, upon subversive. movements in Japan, Great Britain, India, Germany, Hungary and even among the negroes of the United States. And what is there to show for it? What has Comrade Zinoviev, the former head of the Third Internationale, to report for all this? Nothing at all! It has all been a failure, ever in China where General El Chung-jen's adviser and General Tan Yen-kai's adviser are rotting in a Soochow gaol, the last of Soviet Russia's eontribution: to' the Kuomintang.
Meanwhile, Stalin keeps _in-yiting more and more American capital into Soviet Russia, The terms are, of course, semi-communistic, but the mere admission of the capitalist and capitalism, is a complete refutation of communism, Russian communism has become little more than a slogan, a cry for propaganda in foreign lands. The thing itself dying, and with it is dying the whole structure so carefully erected by the Bolshevisks to prevent dictatorship and counter-revolution.
The expulsion of Trotzky and his colleagues of the minority, who advocated militant com munism of the brand employed in the early Bolshevik years dicates how distant the majority of the party have moved from its origins. And historical experience would lead one to assume that no matter what the dictator says, he is forging a policy to suit himself and to pro-Jong his tenure of power. Stalin become the most reactionary: of tyrants or he may have a radical flurry, as events perm: He is more likely to favour a return to capitalism than to Leninistic communism, because his own political fortunes would be strengthened by wealth sin money and goods. Napoleon 'a great man before the Russian campaign and the Spanish failure ate into his treasury.
Chinese communism is naturally Leninistic. It has hardly been affected by the reaction in Russia because the propagand lists sent to this country were all agents of the old Third International. In Mongolia, the reaction is reported to have set in, and the Mongols are said to have become so pink as to be almost white. The failure in China, the new antipathy towards the Kuomintang, the anger at the Canton massacre, and the brutal treatment of arrested advisers is liable to turn Soviet Russia into an exceeding ly imperialistic power. In fact, retaliation may take such a form as to surprise those who listened to the phrases of 1917, which were repeated here by Soviet agents who knew that they were no longer believed in Soviet Russia. Peking understands this and has not broken its treaty with Soviet Russi Everything is again becoming topsy-tury and the world can but watch the swinging pendulum of human thought and motions. With Russia becoming capitalist and imperialist, what will the Chinese communists do for a war ery? Po haps they will repudiate Comrade Borodin and invent a Chinese communism—without doctrine, without principle, without aim, a belief that slogans some-imes bring power and power brings official status and wealth. Even such things have been known to rise out of the ce fusion of terms. Soviet Russia's realism has led her far afield into curious masquerades and falsehoods, but Soviet Russia 1as never been led by anyone more supreme in his realism than Stalin the man of steel, who combines the cunning of a Talleyrand with the capacity of an American industrialist. Such realism knows no faith, no creed, no idea. It is the bodiment of the phrase, "I am.
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