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"The Land to the Peasants" by STALIN (Apr 14, 1917)
Source : Works, Vol. 3, March - October, 1917
Publisher : Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954
marxistsfr.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1917/04/14.htm
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Stalin's Pravda article of April 14, 1917 calls for the formation of Peasant Committees which are to take and begin using the Landlords' land even without permission to avoid a famine.
In order to increase prices and to use political blackmail the landlords refused to produce food. Therefore Stalin & Lenin called for the Peasants to take the land from the landlords.
This episode was a notable precursor to the Collective Farm Movement which developed into a movement of tens of millions in 1928-1938.
Similar economic-political blackmail was used by the industrial bourgeois which used "lock outs" or "employer strikes" to close down factories, lock the workers out of factories and stop production leading to shortages. Lenin prepared a list of immediate actions by the government in his work "The impending catastrophe and how to combat it."
"The Land to the Peasants" by STALIN (Apr 14, 1917)
Source : Works, Vol. 3, March - October, 1917
Publisher : Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1954
marxistsfr.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1917/04/14.htm
____________________________________
Stalin's Pravda article of April 14, 1917 calls for the formation of Peasant Committees which are to take and begin using the Landlords' land even without permission to avoid a famine.
In order to increase prices and to use political blackmail the landlords refused to produce food. Therefore Stalin & Lenin called for the Peasants to take the land from the landlords.
This episode was a notable precursor to the Collective Farm Movement which developed into a movement of tens of millions in 1928-1938.
Similar economic-political blackmail was used by the industrial bourgeois which used "lock outs" or "employer strikes" to close down factories, lock the workers out of factories and stop production leading to shortages. Lenin prepared a list of immediate actions by the government in his work "The impending catastrophe and how to combat it."
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Lenin describes the immediate tasks of the Soviet government in 1918.
-The capitalists were more or less defeated militarily, so the task would be to create a proletarian democratic state machinery, get workers in control of administration and economic management.
-Lenin stressed the importance of organization, labor discipline to resist against chaos and individualist actions.
-Lenin also stressed development of productive forces, to make Russia an industrial country. For this task also, organization, planning, proletarian discipline would be needed.
-Lenin explained that since there were no proletarian scientists, no proletarian managers etc. it was necessary to use capitalist experts and learn from them, until the workers could learn and replace them.
-It should be mentioned that when Lenin mentions dictators he means leaders elected by Soviets. These are individual leaders who managed key production facilities, and had complete power as work place team-leaders, but were elected, could be re-called and had no power outside of the work place.
-Lenin defends proletarian democracy and mocks those who criticize it. He says that while mass meetings of workers might seem chaotic, it is the first step in the workers learning eventually to manage their own state, their own economy.
-Later the Soviet state would have to return to military struggle because of the invasion of the foreign imperialist countries in Russia (1918-20)
Lenins Pamphlet is an illustrative combination of democracy and discipline, their constant evolution, analysis of various real life challenges in building a proletarian state.
For Lenin, democracy and dictatorship are not dead metaphysical concepts but real, living, scientific truths. His clear class-based analysis explains that weakness in the proletarian dictatorship means chaos and individualism. On the other hand, discipline carried through proletarian democracy is what makes democracy and economic construction possible.
Petit-bourgeois anarchy, chaos and individualism which fights against the proletarian dictatorship, is not really defending any kind of freedom, but is only causing economic ruin and gnaws at the proletarian democracy itself.")
