ABSTRACT
The benefits which Bolshevism has conferred upon the Russian worker do not lie on the material plane to any marked extent. Paradoxical as it may seem to devotees of historical materialism, they lie mainly on the ideal plane. They consist— double paradox for those who believe in dictatorship— in an installment of democracy which the Bolshevist régime is carrying out within a limited sphere. In this connection the contradiction between the actual dictatorship and the democracy which is assumed for the labour relationship imparts to all existing things the qualities of problems. However inadequate the levelling up of incomes has been so far, the levelling down of incomes has been extensively carried out. The income of a first-class technician amounts, on an average, to three times that of a worker. The restriction which the members of the ruling party impose on themselves with regard to their own incomes is one of the most impressive symbols of the régime.
