which, if it is too strong, too powerful to be arrested by the
Communists, would make short work of those who are
without any such fanatic single-minded and perfectly
disciplined organization.





A CONFERENCE AT JAROSLAVL



I have already suggested that although the small Central
Committee of the Communist Party does invariably get its
own way, there are essential differences between this
Dictatorship and the dictatorship of, for example, a General.
The main difference is that whereas the General merely
writes an order about which most people hear for the first
time only when it is promulgated, the Central Committee
prepares the way for its dictation by a most elaborate series
of discussions and counter discussions throughout the
country, whereby it wins the bulk of the Communist Party to
its opinion, after which it proceeds through local and general
congresses to do the same with the Trades Unions. This
done, a further series of propaganda meetings among the
people actually to be affected smooths the way for the
introduction of whatever new measure is being carried
through at the moment. All this talk, besides lessening the
amount of physical force necessary in carrying out a