Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1929, Page 16

16 REGIME OF STALIN TOHAVELONG RULE But Government Is Held to Be | to be strengtn a Disadvantage to Rus- sian People. BY PAUL MARION. This is the last of a series of seven articles in which Paul Marion, for eight years an outstanding figure in the French Communist party and chief of the political agitation and propaganda section, tells of his dis- illusionment after 15 months in Soviet Russia. What he found in Russia led him to resign from his party. In these articles he describes what he found. PARIS, October 12 (N.AN.A.) —It is only since 1923 or 1924, in fact, the great Trotsky rebellion, that the main body of Russian Communists, headed by the leaders of the revolution of Octo- ber, 1917, have begun to doubt the suc- cess of their work and have considered the possibility of the faflure of the revolution. It is curious to note that it is from that very period, five or six years ago, that Russia has been a stabilized ruble, has seen the ending of civil war and of foreign military complications, and the suspension of the military, economic and financial blockade, with the result that Soviet policy has been able to function freely and clearly to show what it was worth. So long as extraneous events interfer- ed with their program, the Bolshevists benefited by a sort of atmosphere of soclalist mysticism created by decades of revolutionary propaganda and.by the effects of the great year 1917. The re- sult was that a great proportion of pub- lic opinion and even many of their for- mer opponents afforded them unstinted support. “We were dying of hunger and cold, but we were moving toward a new world; we were going to create a better social organism: we were going to astonish the world.” Different Views. These words were spoken to me by an eer, who has since become an anti-Communist. The underlying idea of his remarks was repeated to me by crowds of workmen, of humble people of all kinds, of civil servants and even of full-fledged members of the Communist party, who, angry and disabused, cher- ish in the privacy of their homes thoughts quite different from those they utter in their offices or at the meetings ®f their “cells.” ‘This spirit of mysticism was not dissi- until 1925 or 1926, when the blem of the economic development of the country along socialistic lines be- gan to be acute after the Communists had completed their work of re-estab- lishing the wrecked industrial undertak- ings. It then became apparent with increas- ing clearness that the bureaucracy of the Communist party and of the Soviets had created a very heavy, expensive and paralyzing system of production, which could exist only by destroying adminis- tratively every kind of commercial and industrial competition. And this in spite of the new economic policy which al- Jowed a certain liberty to private ini- tiative recognized as useful in trads e Prevents Development. ‘The new system prevented a ous development of agricultural seri- sav- L ANSBURGH &BRO. OQANNIVERSARY BASEMENT ST Women’s Jersey Knit Raincoats $4.95 A raincoat that makes an excellent topcoat; brown, blue and tan mix- ture, rainproofed jersey; 16 to 44. Full-Fashioned Silk Hose 95¢ 3 pairs, $2.75! quality! toe heel; 8! to 10. The Newest Style Galoshes $1.29 | flicted its power on the Communist ‘Which indeed ' the 'government for in- goods g only low prices for agricultural products. This condition inevitably brought economic anemia and low wages, which created spirit of discontent among civil servants, clerks, workmen, peas- | ants and virtually evervbody in Russ! There was, of course, the usual politi- cal repercussion. The dictatorship had ened, and from being a military dictatorship during the period of war communism, it developed into & communism of policemen, petty poli- ticians and hypocrites. The government of the country was carried on at first by the Communist party, which very largely followed its chiefs blindly during the period of the great struggles. Later it tended more and more to pass into the hands of a small government clique, which in- party after having expelled, deported, exiled or humiliated the leaders of the old_heroic age, such as Trotsky, Zino- vieff, Kameneff, Tomsky, Boukharine, Rakowsky, Preobrajensky and Radek, Socialized by Decree. It must be recognized that nnth!ng! eise could have happened, because, after all, one cannot create a state of society superior to capitalism by brutally sub- stituting for capitalism and for the com- plicated machinery of industrial leader- ship in a country a political party which has been socialized by decree. Such a scheme must lead either to more or less rapid collapse, as would have happened if that warlike prophet Trotsky had remained in power, or to the creation of a feudal bureaucracy, of which Stalin is the practical em- bodiment in the U. S. 8. R. This bureaucracy has created a back- ward and reactionary economic regime in spite of all propaganda may say, as to exist it has to stifie all productive forces in the country, in both towns and villages. The bureaticracy has further set up | a political regime corresponding to this sconomic regime—that is to say, it has formed a dictatorship in which a small governing group under nobody’s contrel practices a policy of despotism it asl you to believe is a policy of enlighte ent. 1t is not to be wondered that the one question asked among friends who can Dbe trusted in every class of society when the situation in Russia is discussed is: “How is ‘all this going to end?” Vital Question, Will the present regime be altered? Numbers of Communists of the right wing and avowed or unconscious Men- shevists, of whom many are to be found among government employes, will say that the country should pass little by little from the bureaucratic system and from the government control of indus- try to a state where the concessions to forelTn capitalists will be increased very largely. This would allow the progressive establishment of a mixed economic regime in the bigger undertakings, which would be run half by private capital and half by the Soviet state. It also would enable smaller industrial concerns and the small peasant investor to develop freely, and would lead to a gradual return of freedom of action of trades unions and local Soviets, and to a' general evolution toward democracy. Thus, we are told, there would be set up in the U. §. 8. R. a type of eco- nomic and political machinery both original and progressive. In theory all this is not impossible, but it would be asking the Stalin bu- reaucracy to cut its own throat. This solidly entrenched minority which con- trols the enormous state organization recently smashed the right wing of Communism, led by Boukharine and| ‘Tomsky, that enjoyed the support of an important section of the population, but | whose forces were scattered and with- All first Service weight with lisle tops; reinforced guard; deep spliced out any centril control. 500 New Fall Hats Hats whose very lines portray their newness — off-the- face shapes, wider at the sides, clever brim treatments and fancy buckles and bows. Black and colors. | ably be fatal to the dictators of the | Kremlin. . THE .SUNDAY. STAR. WASHINGTON, D. There remains admitfedly lurelg and from h‘:weln labor movement. Nothing, however, is ready in those quarters. There is also pressure exercised by big foreign industrial lead- ers who have dealings with the U. 8. S. R., but these leaders do not find it too difficult to work with the.Napoleonic regime of Stalin. Any violent ug:etung of the dictator- ship is out of the question, because the enemy forces home are unable to | carry out such a plan. There mlgmbei peasant risings, growls and groans from workers and government servants; labo; may. be discontented and “go slow strikes and sabotage may be carried out by a minority of the proletariat, but all these things are far from being welded in one big revolutionary movement. “We put up with the Romanoffs for 300 years,” you will be told by Musco- vites in a spirit of resignation, “so why should we not tolerate the Bolshevists for 30°? As regards a foreign war, it may be said that the U. S. 8. R., although with- out economic reserves and saddled with a peasant class ready to mutiny and | desert, could nevertheless hold out for | a time by means of the very powerful military and police forces at its disposal and thanks aiso to the patriotism of t city dwellers, No Love for Poles. “T do not love the Bolshevists,” said a skilled worker to me, “but how delighted I should be to fire two or three shells into the backs of the Poles.” Any serious war, though, would prob- If such a thing should come, we must not shut our eyes to the fact that the government that would succeed the Bolshevist dictatorship would be one of the narrowest white reaction. The moujik would vote, in his anti-Commu- nist fury, for the most backward of anti-Reds. 3 This, in my opinion; would be a piti- able outlook for the whole world. Far preferable to such a state of affairs would be the evolution of the Soviet system in the direction of political and economic democracy. ‘The Stalin regime with the huge re- sources afforded it by its economic and political dictatorship and by the ma- neuvering ability which enables it to avoid one crisis by creating another, still has a long life before it, though I recognize that such a life is to the dis- advantage of the mass of the Russian people, of the international labor move- ment and of world progress in general. That is why I consider it necessary to make known the truth about Soviet Russia, to destroy the mysticism of the Russian revolution and to disabuse workmen and small bourgeois of their | extremist, anti-democratic illusions. | (Copytight. 1920, by the North American | Newspaper Alllance.) CONVICTS REWARDED. Loyal Prisoners in Riot to Get Re- duced Terms.” DENVER. Colo, October 12 (#).— Convicts and trusties at the State Penitentiary at Canon City who fought the flames in burning cell houses dur- ing the prison mutiny which cost 13 lives last week will be rewarded with reduction of sentences. Gov. Adams sald today he probably would. act on_ recommendation to be submitted by Warden Francis E. Crawr ford of the penitentiary in selection of prisoners who will efit by his acts of clemency. ge—msi et Eight Employes Dismissed. MANILA, October 12 (). —Eight em- ployes of the Bureau of Posts were dis-' missed and three others were suspended today for periods of two to three months | America; Spengler's famous TRANSLATIONS HIGHER THAN ORIGINAL WORKS y | Prices of Books Printed in Germany | Advanced 100 to 200 Per Cent by Other Countries. Special Dispatch to The Star. | * BERLIN, October 12.—Some interest- ing figures have recently been published here showing the marked difference in | cost of books published in Germany and | of translations of the same books pub- lished in foreign countries. For some reason translated German works com- mand much higher prices abroad than the original works do here. These dif- | ferences are not to be accounted for | by the varying honorariums allowed to the ‘German authors or to the. trans- | lators, or by the perhaps better bindings and illustrations of the translations. The average advance in cost through '.l‘lr;s]ltlon seems to be about 30 per cent. A few instances are given of very unequa! publication prices. Gundolf's “Caesar” costs 8 marks ($2) in Ger- many, but $5 in the United States; Emil Ludwig's “Goethe” in the German edi- tion costs 28 marks (8$7), in English, 42 shillings; Meler Graefe's ‘“Dostoyevski, the Poet,” is priced at 15 marks in Ger- many, 25 shillings in England and $6 in ntergang | des Abendlandes” costs 18 marks and $7.50; Karl Helfferich’s “Geld Hnd! Banken” costs 20 marks and $12.50. | ‘These figures indicate that German original editions are from 100 to 200 per cent cheaper than the translations abroad. German commentators take this an an indication that Germany’s publishing trade has recovered and is now capable of- conducting a lively competition in the markets of the world APPAREL TAKEN FROM i GIRLS BY ARMED BAND, Thirty Compelled to Walk After Clothes Are Buined and Bus Forced to Leave. | LONDONDERRY, Ulster, Ireland, | October 12 (#).—Thirty Londonderry girls en route to leenan last night. where they were going to dance with British soldiers, were stopped by a band of armed and masked men near Clon many and were stripped of their coats, hats and shoes. The bus in which the girls were riding was stopped and the girl parel was taken from them and burned. | The men then compelled the. bus | driver to proceed, leaving the girls to walk home. | TOURS AT AGE OF 79 YEARS | Los Angeles Settlement Worker Re- | -turns From Europe. NEW YORK (#).—Travel has no ter- rors for a 79-year-old settlement worker of Los Angeles. 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