_But our revolutionary and popular tribunals are
excessively and incredibly weak. It is apparent that the popular
view of the courts--which was inherited from the regime of the
landowners and the bourgeoisie--as not their own, has not yet been
completely destroyed_. It is not sufficiently appreciated that the
courts serve to attract all the poor to administration (for
judicial activity is one of the functions of state
administration); that the court is _an organ of the rule of the
proletariat and of the poorest peasantry; that the court is a
means of training in discipline_. There is a lack of appreciation
of the simple and obvious fact that, if the chief misfortunes of
Russia are famine and unemployment, these misfortunes cannot be
overcome by any outbursts of enthusiasm, but only by thorough and
universal organization and discipline, in order to increase the
production of bread for men and fuel for industry, to transport it
in time, and to distribute it in the right way. That therefore
_responsibility_ for the pangs of famine and unemployment falls on
_every one who violates the labor discipline in any enterprise and
in any business_.
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