Therefore opposition from the extreme left began and still continues to attack the preseat regime, complaining that it has given birth to a new cast of privileged officials, comparable to the "'tobin" of the time of the Tears! Trotsky, whom wwe have lately heard. of in his faite, assumed tie leadership of the opposition, The men actually in power display" against him, against the Jabour proletariat, the Sime Tigcur and employ the rame methods. of coercion' which were used "formerly by. the tee, But, at the san the, and In ore.r to disarm the opposition, same sion in power do. heir anotto give satisfaction, snsthing ike satisfaction, 9" that foppes tier. which means "Cat fighting on the one had hose who are more revolutionary thea theme elves, the men of the Stsbn group cushy on the other, all those fivideals belonging' to the old and whose prosperity, may the ire of the lower Nowhere else as much as ju Russia, the government in under ove appetite fires, oF If you prefer it, is" walking on a. tightrope stretched over two. precipices.
In a word, the Stalin group does not want—in theory—to be a traitor to communist tenets, but knows them to be noxious and—in practice—secks to betray them in many says. Tt isthe reason why 80 much news from Russia. seems $0)
Te is equally true' that' the government. fight to-day against the right and shall fight to-morrow against the left that it favours and atthe same ime prevents. the development of private trade; that it adopted an Perialist external policy white Iteelt the enemy of imperialism, How me now to give you a few examples which may" enable: you to find. in certain facts. the general notions 1 have just been the exponent of. Naturally, they are fcxamples "as, we say, "amonget many' others," but they appear to being' particulary significant The State in Commerce Firstly—Charncteristies of the} tion of the State in commercial matters.
Internal trade is under the control of the State, External trade is it its hands.
The State only hus the power and ight to import and export, 'We have there "an. economic conception which may be discussed, but I remember conversation I bad with Sokolnikov, then Minister of Finances, which' will show you the calamitous results of the system.
In 1925, the price of when had sone up considerably. The goxernment vias buying from the Russian envant a ton of wheat at a much Jéearer price than it could be resold jon the London market. The Russian neassnt_ ie the only indi dual who jean resist the authorities: he has were not stong enough, On the other hand, the opposition of the middle classes gave immedi birth to the pro let Jof the workmen, who were asi themselves the reason why they thud made the revolution and what was going to he the amount of their share in the profits. Living wap dearer then and power continued to be out of their reach.
They did not even have the pleasure lof being able to say that they had mastered those who had exploited them, as those individuals, little by Tittle, were getting the upper hand Jagain, and as the social wrongs Gnequslities in the conditions life) were reingeated by the Soviets themselves who, in a way, cecognized them as essential iv the social organization. Therefore, as these evils could not be dispensed with, 'a blunder bad been committed chog tort acm ete the prakavit Rad Ween me 2 powerful wervun, food, Twas ing to Sokolnikev: "What are to do? You must the idea of buying "the start war against the The Minister amiled, "Why? We paid for a pond of wheat, say 10 roupier to the village. We ship if te London, where it costs us 15 There, we sell it for five We keep as a deposit two roubles in the bank which helps us to build our credit, or we spend in propaganda. With the remaining thre roubles, we buy goods which we sell to our passants at 15 or 20 roubles, as everything here is five or six times more expensive in the rest of the world.
Hence, an undeniable profit'
We could have replied to him that such 2 process was nothing than an attack against the Sesh itself, the substance itself of te colnikev found it cut, sion of the monopoly—And it 5s fo that veason that he was cashiere Jand cxelnéed from the party, Seconilly.—The verbal illusion Do you wish ty go from Moscow to Kharkov? Please take netied that, since the revolution, there ig longer any privileged clave, Everybooy now travels in the sano manner." Theref.re you buy Heke which costs you the amd Jamount that the mujick obliged to pay for it. However, in cider to enhance the receipts of tha State, you are authorized to hi a second. ticket called "Softness, supplement; you will occupy a stuffed seat," In order to travel quickly, you'can also buy a "speed. ticket" which enables you to travel by the express train. In. paying little more, you may acquire "ueceleration ticket" and the right to use the rapid train. And then, in order to use the sleeping cay You will any have to buy' Sith tier, "catled "epecint "destination ticket" "Be careful net toot thee 'As you may see, every one travel inthe same' miner"
Gnly one kind of ticket Hav fine thing indeed, mes
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