Russia Proves Socialist Efficiency With 8 to 12 Hour Shifts
The piece argues that socialist workers in Russia increased output despite blockades and shortages. It cites eight hour workdays, volunteers to work twelve hours, and four extra hours by railway workers to rebuild industries under Denikin and Kolchak's opposition. It contrasts American wage struggles with Russian productivity amid Allied blockades.
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Denikin
Kolchak
Russia
America
Europe
Emigration Trends and the Mecca of Russia
The article notes large outflow from the United States with 126000 leaving and 19000 entering in five months ending last November, estimates a million and a quarter preparing to emigrate, and reports more women than men arriving. It discusses Europe encouraging female emigration and Russia as a social experiment drawing revolutionaries, with Liberty lighting the way outward.
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America
Ines
European
Europe
Russia
White Collar Rebel Probes Rent and Capital Debate
A reader questions Communist views on rent and asks how to address the rent problem without and against capital. He wonders if abolishing capital would stall initiative and whether a limited dividend of 5 to 6 percent could sustain progress without a full shift to socialism.
Are Rents Just in Capitalist Economy
A fragment argues that socialism rejects rents as part of exploitation. It claims rent, interest, and profit sustain capitalism and that justice depends on the viewer's economic interests. The piece asserts capitalists see rents as unearned rewards, sanctioned by God and law, while renters are exploited.
Invention Marks Upper Savagery Bow and Arrow Rise
Editorial notes discuss the third age of human history, upper savagery, beginning with the bow and arrow. It attributes this shift to population pressure and the need for distant hunting, describes weapon invention, fire-charred tips, dugout canoes, dress development, and early social forms like the Condanguine and Punalan families, plus the emergence of the medicine man and primitive economics. The piece frames rent theory and primitive democracy, ending with study prompts about these early periods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michles
Ufena
Arta
Tyler
Will Communism Abolish Capital
The piece argues capital is wealth used to produce more wealth and includes lands farms mines and infrastructure. It claims communism would not abolish capital but would empower workers, with profits possible only during transitional reconstruction. It asserts Russia shows high industrial incentive under communism and that exploitation ends with communism while capital persists as productive means.
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Rusia
Communist Workers of
Russia
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