From all this we must draw the conclusion that the Soviets and the soviet government are not one and the same thing, bul two different things, of which the first one is the natural expres sion of the revolutionary people, while the second one is the hard frozen forms of a clique that has come into power. As a liberty loving revolutionist one can very well accept the first but must look upon the latter very critically. In view of the circumstance that the bolsheviks and communists always call attention to one side of the soviet power, it is proper for the syndicalists to show up the other side, in order that all workers in the portentous hours which are immediately ahead may be able to draw a lesson therefrom and with Argus eyes guard their own freedom anc their elected Soviets. It would mean putting the garden in charge of the goat if the workers of other countries, after adopting the soviet system, were to see a road to the realization of their economic mid political freedom in a political government Mark that we here only speak of the revolutionary and progressive workers and not of the bourgeoisie. Factory councils for the managing of the factories; peasant and agricultural workers' councils for the management of agriculture; community councils for regulating the affairs of the community; finally, federations of the single unions as well as of the industrial unions; but also federations of the community councils or labor bureaus. These are the organizations of the revolution; but they must never be allowed to converge into a state, for only through the absence of the state is freedom guaranteed, in spite of all well or ill-meant assurances of the bolsheviks about the necessity of state or proletarian dictatorship.
The Red Army
In the Red Army the Communist Party of Russia had a powerful weapon for maintaining its power. And it continues to be such up to the present day. That the creating of such an army from the wreckage of the czarist armies, after the alldestroying world war, was a notable achievement, shall not be denied here. And whether this army could hold its own against an army of Prussian or French militarism, that will remain an open question.