different solutions, without reflecting in the only realistic and Marxist way upon the kind of transitions that must take place from Capitalism to Communism in such and such conditions. There are in Russia agricultural laborers, but they are few, and the question raised by the Soviet Government as to the method of transition to a communal and co-operative land tillage has not been touched upon by Kautsky at all. The most curious thing, however, is that Kautsky sees a "fraction of Socialism" in the renting out of small land plots. In reality this is a petty bourgeois solution, and Socialism has absolutely nothing to do with it. If the State renting out the land is not a State of the type of the Commune, but a parliamentary bourgeois republic, such as is constantly implied by Kautsky, the renting out of the land in plots would be a typical Liberal reform.
That the Soviet régime has abolished all private property in land is entirely ignored by Kautsky. He does even worse than that. He quotes the decrees of the Soviet authority in such a way as to omit the most important clauses, thus rendering himself guilty of a most incredible forgery. Having declared that "small producers aspire to full private property in the means of production," and that the Constituent Assembly would have been the "sole authority" capable of preventing the division of lands (an assertion which will cause laughter throughout Russia, where everybody knows that only the Soviets are regarded by the workers and peasants as authoritative institutions, while the Constituent Assembly has become a watch-word of the Czecho-Slovaks and the landlords) Kautsky continues: "One of the first decrees of the Soviet Government resolved that (1) all landlords' property in land is abolshed immediately without compensation; (2) All landlords' estates, as well as all estates belonging to the Tsar's family, to monastic institutions, to the church, with all their live and dead stock, with all their buildings and appurtenances are placed under the control of the cantonal
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