Though he counts on the fanatic and the half-baked intellectual to spread his propaganda for him, he goes by instinct to the dregs for his recruits. He may tell them that his purpose is to raise them to the standard of the highest, to make his dead level the level of the best, but subconsciously he knows, whether he admits it to himself or not, thata this is not true, or he would not go to the dregs for allies. He goes to them because he knows that it is possible by repression, granted enough force, to make the lowest level the dead level, but that no system of; madness and Russia's sorrow. galvanization can bring the tenth rate man up to the level of the first rate man. He knows, too, consciously or unconsciously, that among the dregs he will find countless recruits who will take a fiendish delight in dragging all the world to their level, while among intelligent men he will find few who are sanguine and silly enough to believe that all humanity can be brought to anything like equality at the highest level.
What all democracy which is not stagnant is moving towards is a state of things in which every man born into the world will have equal opportunity to find his level, an environment and an education which will give every one sufficient spiritual elbow room to demonstrate whether he is of the fit, the mediocre or the unfit. No outlook is more terrible to the Communist than this, because it would prove as clearly the inequality of man and the absurdity of a dead level, as a glass jar of milk in repose proves to even the careless observer that cream floats on milk. Every stride which democracy makes towards equality of opportunity therefore urges the Bolshevik to safeguard his holy theories by beating such humanity as is within his reach down to the lowest level and by excluding opportunity from his whole schedule with the utmost rigour. This is the clue to Russia'
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