"The Greatest Failure in All History": A Critical Examination of the Actual Workings of Bolshevism in RussiaSpargo, John
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"The Greatest Failure in All History": A Critical Examination of the Actual Workings of Bolshevism in Russia
Spargo, John
Communism -- Russia
We shall succeed if qualified and trained workers take part
in productive labor. They must all be registered and provided
with work registration books. Trades-unions must register
qualified workmen in the villages. Only in those localities
where trades-union methods are inadequate other methods must
be introduced, in particular that of compulsion, because labor
conscription gives the state the right to tell the qualified
workman who is employed on some unimportant work in his
villages, “You are obliged to leave your present employment and
go to Sormova or Kolomna, because there your work is required.”
Labor conscription means that qualified workmen who leave
the army must take their work registration books and proceed
to places where they are required, where their presence
is necessary to the economic system of the country. Labor
conscription gives the Labor State the right to order a workman
to leave the village industry in which he is engaged and to
work in state enterprises which require his services. We
must feed these workmen and guarantee them the minimum food
ration. A short time ago we were confronted by the problem of
defending the frontiers of the Soviet Republic, now our aim is
to collect, load, and transport a sufficient quantity of bread,
meat, fats, and fish to feed the working-class. We are not only
confronted by the question of the industrial proletariat, but
also by the question of utilizing unskilled labor.
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