Moscow, May 9.
"Pure inventions." Thus Com rade Trotzky stigmatizes the state ments of foreign newspapers that he favours bourgeois democracy and freedom of commerce.
Conirade Trotzky in a statement fon the matter upholds the So system of dictatorship of the proletariat and ths monopoly of for+ jcign trade as essential conditions for attaining Socialism.
He adds that the campaign towards Socialism ought to be carried jon without abrupt change by methods suited to peasant economy rhe course of history confirms these exsenti jand in conclusion states. that forther development of England— tions created by bourgeois and par-
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