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The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Earl Bertrand Arthur William 3rd Russell
page 58 of 134 (43%)
unedited document which was given to us in Moscow):

Being of opinion that without a scientific organization of
industry, even the widest application of compulsory labour
service, as the great labour heroism of the working class,
will not only fail to secure the establishment of a powerful
socialist production, but will also fail to assist the country
to free itself from the clutches of poverty--the Congress
considers it imperative to register all able specialists of
the various departments of public economy and widely to
utilize them for the purpose of industrial organization.

The Congress considers the elucidation for the wide masses of
the workers of the tremendous character of the economic
problems of the country to be one of the chief problems of
industrial and general political agitation and propaganda; and
of equal importance to this, technical education, and
administrative and scientific technical experience. The
Congress makes it obligatory on all the members of the party
mercilessly to fight that particular obnoxious form, the
ignorant conceit which deems the working class capable of
solving all problems without the assistance _in the most
responsible cases_ of specialists of the bourgeois school, the
management. Demagogic elements who speculate on this kind of
prejudice in the more backward section of our working classes,
can have no place in the ranks of the party of Scientific
Socialism.

But Russia alone is unable to supply the amount of skill required, and
is very deficient in technical instructors, as well as in skilled
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