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Comment. M. Bukharin, editor of the Pravda, explains this metamorpho sis of Communism as due to a new-conception of the means of attain ing Socialism, meaning that, in opposition to Red terrorism, "the proletarian State must get a hold upon the chief commanding heights of industry and commerce; then, by means of commercial competition, conquer private capitalism, and the quicker we develop our economic re sources the sooner we shall accomplish our socialistic aims...
...promise. It is easy to classify most literature as tending either for or against a proletariat millenium, but it should be done without questioning the sincerity of the writers. Interest in the lower classes, "the cult of the poor," did not begin until the eighteenth century. Before that time proletarian milleniums were unheard of, and unimagined. Mr. Sinclair would have one believe that "when an artist embodies his emotions in an art form, he does so because he wishes to convey those emotions to other people . . . and he will change the emotions of other people. But emotions, unlike opinions, such...
...nose and inspires him, while he buttons his tunic, to relate to the officers of his staff an impolite story which is one of the most consummate pieces of pantomime that has ever enriched the cinema. He starts down to breakfast, falls in love with a charming proletarian whom he meets in the hall, lets the Princess to whom he is engaged marry her brother's tutor. To Franz Molnar, author, $50,000 was paid for screen rights - a graceful benevolence, since Molnar could not by any chance detect in the cinema so much as a plagiarism...
This one-sided, material emphasis in Russian education will be preserved as long as the present dearth of technical knowledge blights her industrial development. But the day will come when inquiring spirits may question the economical and political bases of the system which nourished them. Then the proletarian whose passionate support made the Bolsheviki masters of Russia, and whose ranks supply the brain and brawn of the movement, may like Romulus and Remus, abandon the wolf who sucked them...
...same time, this policy of class discrimination seems likely to result in the formation of an endless cycle; if the proletarian is forcibly educated, and the bourgeois is kept from education, it will be but a short time until the situation is reversed, and each is in the other's shoes, which will result in no appreciable gain to the state as a whole...