esentative of the Shop Committee of the
Unions, a representative of the Central Executive of the Unions,
and a representative of the Supreme Council of People's Economy.

The Unions are thus a branch of the government--and this government
is the most highly centralized government that exists.

It is also the most democratic government in history. For all the
organs of government are in constant touch with the working masses,
and constantly sensitive to their will. Moreover, the local Soviets
all over Russia have complete autonomy to manage their own local
affairs, provided they carry out the national policies laid down by
the Soviet Congress. Also, the Soviet Government represents only
the workers, and cannot help but act in the workers' interests.

The motto of this section is the conclusion of a good article in the
first number of one among the best of the periodicals devoted to the
promotion of Marxism, The Workers' Council, published by the
International Educational Company, New York City. This article is so
short and lends itself so naturally as a supplement to the foregoing
explanation of the new economic system which has been established and is
being developed in Russia that I quote the rest as the conclusion of
this section about Sovietism.

Communist Russia, the Russia of the common people, marks a new
epoch in the world's history. It marks a basic change in the
structure of human society. Up to this time society lived under the
rule of the few, under the rule of the class which possessed the
wealth of the country. The methods were different at different
periods in the world's history, but the results were the same:
riches and power for the few, a bare existence and endless toil for
the many. The slaves, the serfs, or the wage workers of today, who
compose the masses of the people, have ever been the hewers of wood
and the carriers of water, the beasts of burden on whose backs
sported and fattened kings and nobles, landlords and capitalists.
They who possessed wealth had the power. And they passed laws to
protect that power, to make the possession of wealth a social
institution. Private property was enthroned and every striving of
mankind was subjected to the rule of property. Thence grew the
exploitation of man by man for private profit, and all abuses
resulting therefr