A WIDENING GULF

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 64, 25 October 1928, Page 5

A WIDENING GULF

MAY DESTROY tOMMILVISM* ■CAPITALIST NOT UPROOTED. LONDON, October 23. “It may seen strange to you, comrades, but \\ b have tailed to upToct capitalism; indeed there is jnore a solid basis for capitalism in Russia than for Communism,” said Stalin to-day addressing a Bolshevik Party meeting, according J t'o the Daily* Newsf Moscow> “Even the restoration of capitalism is possib”-),” Stalin added, "because although we can remov e people exhibiting ‘right; tendencies we cannot eliminate the danger which is the direct consequence of present 1 c ■millions.” Stalin admitted the battle between "right” and “left” had been proceeding since the grain requisitions began in February, jHe denied ih-.it Bolsnevtlc ‘ i.-glit" partisans within the political bureau were the keystone cl Bolshevik power. _ Stalin promised practical measures, and a mere war of words, against bis opponents. The DaiP' News points out that the widening gulf within Sovietism indicates that the economic problem growing worst; and may destroy Bolshevism.