WORLD REVOLT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 46, 6 February 1928, Page 5

WORLD REVOLT

FANTASTIC DREAM- ENDS. CAPITAL'S TURN. London, Jan. 22. “World Revolution Is dead). enter now World Capital,” says Mr, <l. L. Garvin, ths editor of "The Observer," in a striking article on Trotsky’s banishmant. He declares that there is no reason why Stalin’s republic should not be accepted in the brotherhood ot the other nations, provided there is no ibterterence with the domestic affairs of other nations. “The new Russian revolution” is how Mr. Garvin entitles his article. “It is the extinction of the last spark of the desperate, fervent dream ot world revolution tor ten years attar the terrifice eruption of t-eninism,” lie says. FACT VERSUS FANCY. “The whole Bolshevist vision ot class war and proletarian triumph will seem an ecstatic imbecility, yet men ot exceptional intelligence, like Trot* sky and Radek, believed naively in a Communistic apocalypse, becuuaa they were not students of facta and probabilities. Similar cases of irrational vision have often been seen. “The history of the establishment of the Russian peasants as the real owners of the soil and the representatives of the largest existing systeal of small properties is the very contradiction and frustration of Corns munism, but is the result of parallel revolution .achieved, not through, bu| despite, Bolshevism. “Tue Russian peasantry are lilia agricultural owners the world wide >a their desire for the lowest the fewest restrictions, the widest markets, and the surety of an nidi* vidual profit return for increased pro* duction. The peasantry is likely te prove one of the most fundamentally, conservative forces in the world. “Stalin and his party are far toe shrewd to attempt a formal tion of Lenin’s first principles. Stalin’e idea is to establish a semi-SocialiH republic in the midst of a world which will remain generally individualist and capitalist for many years io come. “There is nothing alarming in thia project, and there is very reason to accept Russia as a normal member of international society. If she totally abandons her insane and suicidal interference with other nations’ domestic affairs, the new Bolshevik system then has nothing to iear from out-