PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE. The main purpose of the social revolution must be the immediate betterment of conditions for the masses. The success of the revolu. tion fundamentally depends on it. This can be achieved orily by organising consumption ;md production so as to be of real. benefit to the pgpulace. In that lies the greatest-in fact, the onlysecurity of the social revolution. It was not the Red army which conquered counter-revolution in Russia : it was the peasants holding on for dear life to the land they had tal5en during the upheaval. The social revolution must be of material gain to the masses if it is to live and grow, The people at large must be sure of actual advantage from their efforn, or at lea.sitentertain the hope of such advantage in the near future. The revolution is doomed if it relies for its existence and defence on mechanical means, such as war and armies. The real safety of the-revolution is organic; that is, it lies in industry and production. · The object or revolution is to secure greater freedom, to increase the material welfare of the people. The aim of the social revolution, in particular, is to enable the masses by their own efforts to bring about conditions of material and social well-being, to rise to higher moral and spiritual levels. In other words, it is liberty which is to be established by the social revolution. For true liberty is ·based on economic opportunity. Without it all lil:erty is a sham and lie, a mask ior exploitation and oppression. In the profoundest sense liberty is the daughter of economic equality. · The main aim of the social revolution is therefore to establish equal liberty on the basis of equal oppor.tunity. The revolutionary re-organisation of life must immediately proceed to secure the equality of all, economically, politically, and socially. That re-organisation will depend, first and foremost on the thorough familiarity of labour with the economic situation of the country : en a complete inventory of the supply, on exact knowledge of the sources of raw material, and on the proper organisation of the labour forces for efficient management. ft means that·· statistics and inteiligent workers' associations are vital needs of the revolution, ori. the day after ~he upheaval. The entire problem of production. and distribution-the life of the revolution-is based on it. It is obvious, as pointed out before, 78 BibliotecaG no Bianco
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