Word: communiste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lenin, before the Communist Internationale, explained why Russia has abandoned the revolutionary sytem, rejected communism, and reverted to capitalism. "We went too far . . . we must learn from circumstances". "We instituted a new system more in accordance with the needs of the majority of the population...
Significant is it that neither Lenin, Trotsky, nor Kalinin, leaders of Soviet Russia, who are supposed to sympathize heart and soul with the aims of the Communist Internationale, have been attending the meetings of the Internationale where they have been expected to speak. This apparent lack of interest has been explained on the ground that the press of official business has kept them away...
...France after the revolution, the triumph of the proletariat and its communist ideals has been gradually modified by the rising of men with greater abilities to higher positions and the gradual creation of new class distinctions. So long as the difference between individual human beings exists, there is sure to be a difference in their status in life. With this natural change and growth, the Soviet Republic has diverged further and further from the original untenable principles of the communists who founded it; and as it has settled back toward the economic status of a capitalistic country its prosperity...
...millions. Moreover, continued Bishop Roots, she has no background of political experience and tradition, such as we inherited from England. The Chinese Republic is here to stay, but there is much still to be done in organizing the government, and in combatting the Red propaganda which pours in from communist Russia...
...this trivial difference over phraseology, at least according to the Russian delegation, which has caused no end of trouble at Genoa. The Communist, who never admitted the right of private property in the first place, cannot understand how anyone can find anything extreme or unreasonable in "expropriation". When the other members of the family of nations demur, and refuse to allow their citizens in Russia to suffer by this piece of Bolshevik logic, M. Kakowsky and his colleagues assume the attitude of injured innocence...