On the other hand, why should they not rejoice when, after this justification, the same K—za comes along and proposes the surest and cheapest means of combating economic terrorism? Let the unions and newspapers agitate freely and unhindered, so long as it does not affect the pocket of the oil owners. Well, isnt that liberal? ... Why should they not, after this, send Mr. K—za, their Warbling Brigand, on to the literary stage? And yet, it is sufficient to think a little, it is sufficient only to adopt the point of view of the class-conscious workers, to see at once the utter absurdity of the measure Mr. K—za proposes. Here it is by no means a matter of the unions and newspapers alone; the unions and newspapers have long been conducting agitation against economic terrorism, and yet assassinations have not ceased. It is much more a matter of the activities of Messrs. the oil owners, which incense and embitter the workers, of the economic repressive measures, big and small, the Asiatically aggressive tactics of Messrs. the oil owners, which foster, and will continue to foster, the economic assassinations with which we are concerned. Tell me, if you please: what can agitation alone by the unions and newspapers do, even if those unions and newspapers are very influential, in face of the incensing activities of Messrs. the oil owners who are robbing the workers of one gain after another, thereby pushing the least class conscious of them on to the path of economic assassinations? Clearly, anti-terrorist agitation alone, even if conducted under a pure white flag, is powerless to abolish it. Obviously, more profound measures than simple agitation are needed to cause the disappearance of economic assassinations; and what is primarily needed is that the oil owners should drop their repressive measures, big and small, and satisfy the just demands of the workers. ... Only when the oil owners abandon their Asiatically aggressive tactics of lowering wages, taking away the peoples halls, reducing the number of schools and hutments, collecting the ten-kopek hospital levy, raising the price of meals, systematically discharging advanced workers, beating them up, and so forth, only when the oil owners definitely take the path of cultured European-style relations with the masses of the workers and their unions and regard them as a force on an equal footing—only then will the ground for the disappearance of assassinations be created. All this is so clear that it needs no proof. JV Stalin: Collected Works Volume II - The Oil Owners on Economic Terrorism - Pages 128-129
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:41:27 +0000
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