... In view
of the considerable delay in accounting and control in general,
although we have succeeded in defeating sabotage, we have _not
yet_ created an environment which would put at our disposal the
bourgeois specialists. Many sabotagers are coming into our
service, but the best organizers and the biggest specialists can
be used by the state either in the old bourgeois way (that is, for
a higher salary) or in the new proletarian way (that is, by
creating such an environment of universal accounting and control
which would inevitably and naturally attract and gain the
submission of specialists). We were forced now to make use of the
old bourgeois method and agree to a very high remuneration for the
services of the biggest of the bourgeois specialists. All those
who are acquainted with the facts understand this, but not all
give sufficient thought to the significance of such a measure on
the part of the proletarian state. _It is clear that the measure
is a compromise, that it is a defection from the principles of the
Paris Commune and of any proletarian rule, which demand the
reduction of salaries to the standard of remuneration of the
average workers_--principles which demand that "career hunting" be
fought by deeds, not words.
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