However well this sounds in theory, no communist experiment or propaganda leading to an experiment has ever commenced by appealing to the capable or the intelligent in a community, but has gone with rigid narrow-mindedness to a carefully delimited industrial proletariat, or to the dregs below that, has made a beginning by appealing to the venomous hatred of the unfit for the fit, has allowed this hatred to vent itself upon the community to its fullest and has then set up the ill-balanced crank and the ignoramus in positions of responsibility and the illiterate and criminal as. the disciplinarians of the fit and capable. This is the way the experiment worked in Russia and the way, in spite of many begrudged compromises with orthodox communism, it is still working. It is also the way in which the Bolshevist agents in America, who are frankly ambitious to revolutionize that country next, are setting about their work there, and it is inevitably the way it would work in China, a country like Russia, with no great or intelligent industrial proletariat, in which Bolshevism can only be introduced through an alliance between half-baked cranks and fanatics and the resentful dregs of society.
In short, the governments which all social revolutions of the communist nature bring forth are. made up inevitably of the scum and the dregs of the existing social order. The scum is made up of mem- of warped genius, sentimentalists with more sympathy than sense, neurasthenics, fanatics who delight in grand crashes for' the sake of the crash—the sort of people who break mirrors just to see and hear the crash—clever and—unscrupulous people with a criminal warp to their minds, ignorant and unscrupulous people driven by great ambition and great greed and equipped with the foxy cunning of the gamin, and the cruel monsters of every terror who delight in the smell of blood and the sight of suffering.
'These are the leaders, the sort of people who rule Russia, and the }sort. of people who rule any' state in which submerged and ignorant working classes are suddenly elevate ed to.be the ruling caste. The dregs, the mobs who follow such rulers and enforce their will upon all other classes in the communist state are the criminal elements, the consciously unfit with their hatred of everything to which they are unequipped to rise, the unnumbered grown mani who have inherited children's minds, whom an eugenic system would eliminate and whom no social order could raise so. high that they would not slip to the bottom again, and the unfortunate victims of hereditary disease, alcoholism and narcotics. These are inevitably the governing classes in a new born communist state—nature's freak excrescences and nature's normal discard.
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