workers; but now under the law on Socialisation and the complete abolition of private property in land, must become the source of agricultural knowledge and of increased productivity of labour for millions of workers.
In this union of the town workers with the labouring peasantry, in this formation of the Committees of the Poor and their transformation into Soviet institutions, we have a pledge that agricultural Russia has set her march along the path on which, after us, but for that very reason more firmly than ourselves, the Western European States are entering one by one. It has been much more difficult for them to begin the revolution, because their enemy was not a rotten autocracy but a most cultured and united Capitalist class; but you know that that change has begun and that the revolution has not stopped at the frontiers of Russia. You know that our main hope, our chief security, is the proletariat of the Western European and other advanced countries. It is the great buttress of the world-revolution. We firmly believe in it, and the progress of the German revolution shows us that we are justified. United with the workers of the towns, united with the Socialist proletariat of the whole world, the Russian labouring peasantry may now be assured that it will overcome all difficulties, all the attacks of the Imperialists, and will successfully solve the problem without which the emancipation of the workers cannot be achieved—the problem of communal tilling of the soil, the problem of the gradual but unswerving transition from small private farming to communal agriculture.
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