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greater the part they take in the business of doing away with all kinds of disorder and dishonesty—the sooner will the working class possess itself not only in word but in deed of the whole industrial production, thus realising not merely a political, but even an economic dictatorship of the working class, that is to say, the working class will become the actual master not only of the army, the courts of justice, schools and other departments, but it will also be at the head of the management of production. Only then will the might of capital be completely rooted out, and the possibility for capital ever again to crush the working class under its heel be completely destroyed.
CHAPTER XII.
BREAD—ONLY FOR THE WORKERS. COMPULSORY
LABOUR SERVICE FOR THE RICH.
A transition to the communal order means a transition to an order where there will be no class difference between people, and where all will be communal workers and never hired labourers. It is necessary to pass immediately on to the organisation of such an order. And one of the first steps in this direction on a parallel with a proletarian nationalisation of banks and of industry, is the introduction of labour service for the rich.
There are at present many people who do nothing, create nothing, but consume that which others have made. And more than that, there are people who not only do no work, but whose whole activity is directed at hindering and interfering with the work of the Soviet Government and the working class. The workers saw with their own eyes the instance of the sabotage attempted by the Russian intellectuals, teachers, engineers, doctors and others of the "learned professions." It would be superfluous to mention the bigger game such as directors of factories and banks, the late high officials, etc. They all made efforts to disorganise and destroy at the root the work of the proletariat and the Soviet Government. The task of the proletariat consists in compelling these bourgeoisie, former landowners, and numerous intellectuals of the well-to-do classes to work for the common good. How is this to be done? By means
