closed, may look like a desolated area ; shops
with similar purpose are also closed in the
working class districts. It is not merely that
the super-abundance of servers of the rich have
been abohshed, but also the superfluous shops
and stores which used to fleece the poor are
also gone, and this is a fact for rejoicing rather
than sorrowing.
As I saw things in Russia, the social and industrial organisation is slowly but surely moving towards a complete thorough-going co-operative organisation of life. I do not think this will be reached in all its fulness for a generation, perhaps two. I am certain though there will be no going back, that gradually the coercive measures will give way before the willing enthusiastic agreement of all sections of the people to serve the commonweal. People ask, will ever the Russian business people go back to Russia ? I think many of them will do so. I also hope the co-operators out of Russia will also go back and settle down to the work of organising their great country. Nowhere in the whole vide world is there such an abundance of natural wealth as in Russia, and nowhere is there, in my opinion, a people more capable of being organised and led along the road leading to the Communist State than in that great country.
