the introduction of better methods of agriculture and
farming on a larger scale. We are witnessing in Russia the
first stages of a titanic struggle, with on one side all the
forces of nature leading apparently to an inevitable collapse
of civilization, and on the other side nothing but the
incalculable force of human will.




THE COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP



How is that will expressed? What is the organization welded
by adversity which, in this crisis, supersedes even the Soviet
Constitution, and stands between this people and chaos?


It is a commonplace to say that Russia is ruled, driven if you
like, cold, starving as she is, to effort after effort by the
dictatorship of a party. It is a commonplace alike in the
mouths of those who wish to make the continued existence
of that organization impossible and in the mouths of the
Communists themselves. At the second congress of the
Third International, Trotsky remarked. "A party as such, in
the course of the development of a revolution, becomes
identical with the revolution." Lenin, on the same occasion,
replying to a critic who said that he differed from, the
Communists in his understanding of what was meant by the