THE SOVIET METHOD.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12761, 3 October 1919, Page 3

THE SOVIET METHOD.

A SIMPLE FORMULA. The working of the soviet theory, (says an American paper) find*; a happy} fllasfera.tron in the action of the Budapest body which hast just adjourned and gone on home after advising the people of the cities to scatter to the- country unless they want to starve. Here we have the whole admicabig system reduced to a single, exact, aUiem bracing formula. If there is no food where you are, go where ft is if you think yon want to eat IF no' means exist hy which you. can he teas* ported to that place, transport your* self. If you have no money to pay for food when you find it, take it hy forca. If the owner of it resists, - kill h-rmi-Of course, if be should he the stnmgeof. he will kill you, in which case yds?, Won’t need any food. Production and distribution veM : two Unnatural laws violently intro* duced by capitalism for its own ends, Soviet society has repealed them as being obstacles to that direct atotion,. For which it stands. The soviet : govv eminent itself, it is to he follows its formula undeviatiugljfc When it found it could not do any** thing in the way of governing' Buds* pest it adjourned and went away some*-' where. In simplicity and effectiveness' it is a method of swift accomplishment, approached only by that of Cardinal Lubois, who used ,to throw away • nn»; read and unopened all documents iating to public business. ' ; Wherever the soviet system has bee©s applied it has achieved the samfl" triumph of efficiency'. Its deskyis ai-~ ways clear. It never has any some or perplexing problems hinging over. When it has abolished the machinery of production, destroyed the machinery of distribution and reduced the functions of government to ' the single one of resigning all respoiiriKL’. ity for anything it disebargea.-that,,' function by putting on its itii and;walking out.