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Dec 5, 2004, 2:38:55 PM12/5/04
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as well, found their only salvation
from the proletariat just beginning to awaken in Russian intervention.
The Tsar was proclaimed the chief of European reaction. Today, he is a
prisoner of war of the revolution in Gatchina, and Russia forms the
vanguard of revolutionary action in Europe.

The Communist Manifesto had, as its object, the proclamation of the
inevitable impending dissolution of modern bourgeois property. But in
Russia we find, face-to-face with the rapidly flowering capitalist
swindle and bourgeois property, just beginning to develop, more than
half the land owned in common by the peasants. Now the question is: can
the Russian obshchina, though greatly undermined, yet a form of
primeaval common ownership of land, pass directly to the higher form of
Communist common ownership? Or, on the contrary, must it first pass
through the same process of dissolution such as constitutes the
historical evolution of the West?

The only answer to that possible today is this: If the Russian
Revolution becomes the signal for a proletarian revolution in the West,
so that both complement each other, the present Russian common ownership
of land may serve as the starting poin


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