supply him with a translation of at least one of the decrees relating to factories?
"How far this process has gone, cannot yet be determined. Tihs aspect of the activity of the Soviet Republic has at any rate a maximum interest for us, but it still remains entirely shrouded in darkness. There is no lack of decrees" [is that the reason why Kautsky ignores or hides the contents of those decrees from his геаders?] "but reliable information as to their effects is practicallу non-existent. Socialist production is impossible without all-round, detailed, reliable, and rapidly informing statistics. But the Soviet Republic cannot possibly have created as yet such statistics. What we learn about, its economic activities is highly contradictory and cannot be verified. This, too, is a result of the dictatorship, and the suppression of democracy. There is no freedom of the press or of speech" (p. 53).
This is how history is written. No doubt Kautsky would have received from the "free" press of the capitalists and the Dutovites all the information about the factories which are being handed over to the workers. This learned savant, standing above classes, is really magnificent! Not one of the countless facts showing that factories are handed over to the Republic only, and that they are managed by the Supreme Economic Council the organ of Soviet authority which consists of delegates of the trade unions forming a majority, is touched upon by Kautsky. With the obstinacy of a bookworm, he goes on repeating one demand: Give me a peaceful democracy, without civil war, without a dictatorship, with good statistics (the Soviet Republic has created a statistical organization, in which the best statistical authorities in Russia take part, but, of course an ideal system of statistics cannot be got rapidly)—in a word, give me a revolution without revolution, without force, without raging battles! This is what Kautsky wants. It is the same as if one wanted to have
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