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Yvon, M.. What has become of the Russian Revolution - Image 10. 1937. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. June 22, 2021. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp/item/4766/show/4707.

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Title	What has become of the Russian Revolution
Creator (LCNAF)	Yvon, M.
Contributor (Local)	Integer
Publisher	International Review
Date	1937
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Communism Economics
Subject.Topical (Local)	Social conditions
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	Soviet Union
Genre (AAT)	pamphlets
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Text
Original Item Extent	63 pages; 22 cm
Original Item Location	HN523.Y8613 1937
Original Item URL	http://library.uh.edu/record=b8304536~S11
Original Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection	Socialist and Communist Pamphlets
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/scpamp
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://libraries.uh.edu/branches/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	In Copyright
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Image 10
Format (IMT)	image/jpeg
File Name	uhlib_2209396_009.jpg
Transcript	they cast their spell over the confused and scared masses of Soviet Russia, is repeated even by some people who recognize the exploitation practiced by the Soviet masters on the laboring population of Russia. But they who find in the apparent absence of competition within Russia a sign of the abolition of capitalism forget that what makes capitalist economy capitalist is precisely its mode of production. Russia we are told is economically like Ford's general enterprise. The various component plants deal with one another, — not on the commercial exchange basis, but as different departments of one concern. However, the internal social organization they recognize as non-capitalist is that which is found within every capitalist factory, within every trust. The U.S.S.R. is a badly, loosely run trust of trusts, competing on the world market against all other capitalists and carrying on a relation of exchange—under the monopolist conditions dictated by the masters of Soviet production—with the peasant millions of Russia. The Soviet State representing the privileged interests of the non-productive social strata of Russia (the officials, managers, army, police, writers, actors, publicists, Party functionaries, etc.), is the single national capitalist. ("Capitalist" is an economic unit.) "The category 'capitalist' has itself become a social category. It has become 'socialized'—within the framework of capitalist society." The Soviet State runs the national enterprise in the interests of all the parasites—the non-producers —who, in Russia and abroad, live, in small part or largely, on the surplus value (officials' salaries, "wages of superintendence," royalties, etc., etc.) produced by the wage-slaves laboring in the all-inclusive national enterprise. The national capitalist carries on a class struggle: 1. Against its own wage slaves. As in Nazi Germany, the State employer forbids the worker to change a job without permission. It dictates wage tariffs to the workers. It contravenes any attempt at opposition on the part of the workers by forcing them into its State ^'company" unions and by holding over their heads the threat of the armed forces and its "company" police. It drives and sweats the workers by means of the system of piece work and bonus premiums. 2. Against the precapitalist producers of Russia: the peasants and artisans. The State capitalist expropriates.the latter through arbitrary monopolistic exchange of goods, in which it—the sole manufacturer, with the machinery of State at its disposal—sets prices, "selling dear and buying cheap", It expropriates them through heavy taxation, as was and is done by the capitalist State everywhere else, but not in such a high-handed, brutal manner. When the peasants attempt to combat the monopolist capitalist by calling a "farmers' holiday", the State capitalist "collectivizes" them. That is, it puts them into a situation where the peasants must depend entirely on the State capitalist for their seed, implements and soil to be tilled.