The
defection from this, the only Socialist principle, which is in
accord with the problem of doing away with classes, allows the
existence of working-class co-operatives (which in this case call
themselves working-class co-operatives only because they submit to
the class interests of the bourgeoisie). Lastly, the proposition
of the Soviet government completely to exclude the bourgeoisie
from the administration of the co-operatives was also considerably
weakened, and only owners of capitalistic commercial and
industrial enterprises are excluded from the administration.
* * * * *
If the proletariat, acting through the Soviets, should
successfully establish accounting and control on a national scale,
there would be no need for such compromise. Through the Food
Departments of the Soviets, through their organs of supply, we
would unite the population in one co-operative directed by the
proletariat, without the assistance from bourgeois co-operatives,
without concessions to the purely bourgeois principle which
compels the labor co-operatives to remain side by side with the
bourgeois co-operatives instead of wholly subjecting these
bourgeois co-operatives, fusing both?[69]
V
It is no mood of captious, unfriendly criticism that attention is specially
directed to these compromises.
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