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 110 stroy the larger bourgeois of both town and country so completely that it can be levied only once.

Trotzky is also right about the coercion. There has certainly been nothing voluntary about the payment of this "tax in kind."

From the very first and while all of these activities were going on, Lenin continued his usual policy of applying plausible phrases to the Bolshevist practices. At the Communist Party Congress in March, 1919, he declared:

From the task of suppressing the bourgeoisie we must now transfer our attention to the task of building up the life of the middle peasantry. We must live with the middle peasantry in peace. The middle peasantry