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Bolshevism - The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo
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_I. Measures to counteract the ignorance and legal oppression of
the Russian people_:

(1) Personal freedom and inviolability, freedom of speech and the
press, freedom of assemblage, freedom in religious affairs;

(2) General and compulsory public education at the expense of the
state;

(3) Responsibility of the Ministers to the people, and guaranties
of lawfulness in administration;

(4) Equality before the law for all without exemption;

(5) Immediate rehabilitation of those punished for their
convictions.

(6) Separation of the Church from the state.

_II. Measures against the poverty of the people_:

(1) Abolition of indirect taxes and introduction of direct income
taxes on a progressive scale;

(2) Abolition of the redemption payments, cheap credit, and
gradual transferring of the land to the people;

(3) The orders for the naval and military Ministers should be
filled in Russia and not abroad;
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