Re: Legal advice needed.
If the contents of the page are so important, let me post em. Below is the contents of page 86.
And again his eyes glanced questioningly around.
‘Why should I be degraded? I don’t understand.’
‘Well Masha, order supper for three, with vodka and wine…No, wait. No, never mind… You may go.’
CHAPTER XXV
‘So you see…’* (the hair was found on this ‘So’)* Nicholas Levin Continued with an effort, wrinkling his brow and twitching.
He evidently found it hard to decide what to say and to do.
‘Do you see…’ he pointed to a bundle of iron rods tied together with string, in a corner of the room. ‘Do you see that? It is the beginning of a new business we are undertaking. The business is to be Productive Association…’
Constantine hardly listened. He kept glancing at his brother’s sickly consumptive face, and felt more and more sorry for him, nor could he force himself to pay attention to what Nicholas was telling him about the Association. He realized that this Association was merely an anchor to save his brother from self-contempt. Nicholas Levin continued speaking:
‘You know that capitalism oppresses the workers. Our workmen the peasants bear the whole burden of labor, but are so placed that, work as they may, they cannot escape from their degrading condition. All the profits on their labor, by which they might better their condition, give themselves some leisure, and consequently gain some education, all this surplus value is taken away by the capitalists. And our society has so shaped itself that the more the people work the richer the merchants and landlords will become, while the people will remain beasts of burden for ever. And this system must be changed,’ he concluded, with an inquiring look at his brother.
‘Yes of course,’ said Constantine, looking intently at the hectic flush which had appeared on his brother’s face below its prominent cheek bones.
‘And so we are starting a Locksmiths’ Association, in which all the products and the profits and, above all, the instruments of the production will be common property.’
‘Where will the business be?’ asked Constantine.
‘In the village of Vozdrema, Kazan Government.’
‘Why in a village? It seems to me there is plenty of work to do in the country as it is. Why start a Locksmiths’ Association there?’
‘Because the peasants are still just as much slaves as they used to
