ABSTRACT
It was the basic conviction of the Marxian and Russian leaders that the root evil of the whole system was the private ownership of the means of production which automatically divided the people into antagonistic classes of privileged owners and helpless dependents. Under the old order a growing number of workers who had nothing to sell but their labor power were driven into open hostility by a system which could not provide them with regular work and made them feel that they were under wage-slavery for the enrichment of others. There are some motivations which are chiefly operative in Soviet Russia today: Moral indignation, hatred and fear were powerful motivations, especially in the early, destructive stages of the Revolution. Pugnacity, the fighting spirit and the class war are all invoked in the cause of the continuing revolution. The creative instinct is another powerful motivation. Social acquisitiveness gradually takes the place of personal acquisition.
