SOVIET METHODS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 31 December 1925, Page 1

SOVIET METHODS

■ __ DEMOCRACY IX RUSSIA The gradual surrender of the Bolshevists to the passive revolution of the Russian peasantry is described by M. Vladimir Zenzinov in the American quarterly Foreign Affairs:—"Not long ago a prosperous peasantry and the aecumulalion of capital in the villages would have appeared as deadly sin in the eves of the Marxist Bolshevists. Today their leaders openly agitate in favour of these things in* the press and at every conference and congress.'' he says. The Soviet Ihas sanctioned the hire of auxiliary labour in agriculture without limitatic:i to the number of persons hired, thus not only permitting out directly assisting in the'development of capitalistic relations in rural economy. The employer of this hired labour docs not in any degree forfeit his franchise at the Soviet elections, whereas originally, according lo the Soviet Constitution, only labouring people enjoyed such franchise. We hear very different talk to-day. The Bolshevists now unanimously declare that they do not wish to aggravate the class struggle m the villages. In accordance with this new policy a very special theory is be* ing evolved of harmony of interests between the peasants of all levels.