The Moscow Press, which is of course exclusively Bolshevik— the
liberty of the Press being a " bourgeois " idea—reveals the split caused by Lenin's open recognition of the necessity of capitalism. The orthodox Pravda complains of " the growing wave of petty-bourgeois elements which is gradually sweeping all -over Russia and carrying away, before it a remnants of
Communism." It laments " the reappearance like mushrooms after a shower of rain of all sorts of co-operatives, small factories with hired labour, and so on." which call for " the maximum of watchfulness on our part as they prove that the bour- geoisie is not dead and buried." On the other hand, Lenin's special organ Izvestia denounces the " Extreme Left " who object to the new policy and " have adopted a line of sabotage and obstruction which places them outside all party-limits and demands the intervention of our -revolutionary law." When rogues fall out, honest men come by their own. If the small Bolshevik minority begin to quarrel among themselves, Russia will soon regain her freedom and her sanity.
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