There is only one way, even by be—the exercise of unlimited force, to a level and that is by bringing them all to the lowest level. In practice it soon becomes apparent that you cannot raise the man born with brains which will not develop beyond that of a normal child of ten up to the standard of the normal man, no matter what sort of environment you give him. Therefore, it is the duty of the good Communist to drag the man with a normal brain down to the level of the man with a child's mind. The ft must be brought to the level of the unfit, the most capable down to the level of the least capable. This, then, is applied communism and it explains in large part why so much force has been required in Russia's attempt to achieve the dead level, why there is an army of three millions, why the army eats when the rest of Russia does not, why it is as well uniformed and drilled as the Prussian army was and why it is gorged with communist propaganda.
It takes a lot of force to keep 160,000,000 people at the economic and spiritual level of the lowest and stupidest pre-war moujik. It should also be clear to all who care to think, why a system based upon such an unscientific premise is not a success, why it has to be modified and why no army, when ther of three millions or thirty millions is going to keep such a mass of different races and widely dissimilar people at any dead level. You have only to prove that men are not born equal and cannot be made equal by however rigid a system of regulating environment, to understand that the whole Bolshevist scheme of things is a foredoomed fiasco.
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