Riga, THURSDAY.

The Communist Government of Russia is now approaching its end, and the Bolshevik movement is now in the process of liquidation, according to M. F. E. Dan, a former member o, of the Russian Duma, and a prominent leader of the Social-democratic party of Russia. M. Dan, who lectured in this city on the subject “Russia and her Future,” believes that the Russian peasants, who through passive resistance have defeated the Communist Government and have forced the introduction of the New Economic party, have now forced the present Government of Russia to face two alternatives.

The first, according to M. Dan, is a democratic Fascism which will guarantee the rights of private property in Russia. Both the new and the remnants of the old bourgeois dream of this. The second alternative, he declares, is a liquidation of Communism which will be made by a new party, now in the process of formation, which will support the interests of the working masses. This is feared, and is being opposed by the Bolsheviks.

Capitalism continues to exist in Russia, but it is Red Capitalism (said M. Dan). The Bolsheviks expected to destroy the former civilised economic life with its working-class, its middle-class, and its capitalist class. They wanted no rich and no poor. But at first all became poor, and then later the speculators and the Communists became rich, The Bolsheviks promised to do away with aristocracy and bureaucracy, but they only took the epaulets from the shoulders of the officers and put them on their sleeves. The governing classes have merely changed in Russia. From the lowest of the low, leaders arose who engineered the revolution. But now they have revolved into a new aristocracy, and have severed all connections with the class of their origin. The Russian revolution has not developed a proletarian government, but it has developed a new bourgeoisie. The workers have gained nothing. They have lost much. All what they had, their unions, their State insurance, and their cooperative societies, are now in the hands of the Communists. So Bolshevism is now entering into a period of liquidation, and the day is not far distant when Bolshevism and Sovietism will cease to exist in Russia. A monarchy will never return to Russia. That is out of the question. The Bolsheviks hope to be able to restore the rights of private property in such a way as will permit them to retain what they have gained through the revolution. Their’s is a new aristocracy which is determined to hold on to what it has captured.