erty in land is abolished," and that "model estates and farms are proclaimed national property." Hence, the reference to the Constituent Assembly did not remain a dead letter, as another national representative body, immeasurably more authoritative in the eyes of the peasants, undertook the solution of the agrarian question.
Again, on February 19th, 1918, we published the Land Socialization Law, which once more confirmed the abolition of all land property and transferred the land and all private stock to the Soviet authorities under the control of the Federal Soviet Government. It also included, under the head of duties of the new authorities "the development of collective farming as the more advantageous in respect of economy of labor and produce, at the expense of individual farming, with a view to the transition to Socialist agricultural economy" (article 2, par. d). The same Law, in establishing the "equalized" form of land tenure, replied to the fundamental question as to who is to use the land, in the following manner: "Land plots for public and private needs, within the frontiers of the Russian Soviet Federal Republic, may be used: A. For cultural and educational purposes: (1) by the State as represented by the Federal, regional, provincial, cantorial, and village organs of Soviet authority, and (2) by public bodies (under the control, and with the consent of the local Soviet authorities); B., For purposes of agriculture: (3) by agricultural communes, (4) by agricultural co-operative associations, (5) by village communities, (6) by individual families and persons." …
The reader will perceive that Kautsky has completely distorted the facts, and has given the German reader an absolutely false view of the agrarian policy and legislation of the Russian proletarian State. Kautksy has not been able to formulate the most important questions with theoretical accuracy. These questions are (the equalization of the use of land; (2) nationalization of the land (the importance of that or this measure from the point of view
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