Other hostilities besides those of the outside world have been
incurred by the Bolsheviks with open eyes, notably the hostility of
the peasants and that of a great part of the industrial population.
They have attempted, in accordance with their usual contempt for
conciliatory methods, to substitute terror for reward as the incentive
to work. Some amiable Socialists have imagined that, when the private
capitalist had been eliminated, men would work from a sense of
obligation to the community. The Bolsheviks will have none of such
sentimentalism. In one of the resolutions of the ninth Communist
Congress they say:
Every social system, whether based on slavery, feudalism, or
capitalism, had its ways and means of labour compulsion and
labour education in the interests of the exploiters.
The Soviet system is faced with the task of developing its
own methods of labour compulsion to attain an increase of the
intensity and wholesomeness of labour; this method is to be
based on the socialization of public economy in the interests
of the whole nation.
In addition to the propaganda by which the people are to be
influenced and the repressions which are to be applied to all
idlers, parasites and disorganizers who strive to undermine
public zeal--the principal method for the increase of
production will become the introduction of the system of
compulsory labour.
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