Every revolution produces a crop of fanatics and as Russia possessed a goodly store of tham even in the days of the Tsar, their number, since the revolution, has become legion. There is the theorist who will never admit the impractibility of the successful application to actual life of Karl Marx's social theories, but blames Nature for the failure of all the Soviet decrees. There is the other theorist who publicly declaims against capital, more particularly foreign, as a social evil yet signs cheques daily amounting to thousands of roubles and is the first to raise his voice at any shrinkage. Another type of fanatic is to be met with who strongly supports the Communistic principle of what is known here as the "dom rebyonka," which is a State institution to which all true adherents of the Communist creed should send their newly-born offspring, yet when his own child is born into Soviet Russia, he not only refuses to surrender it up to the "dom," but actually provides it with a special nurse, ete. Still' another particular type is he whose whole life is wrapped up in the idea of converting the world over to Communism and is perfectly oblivious of the fact that this very creed has stood the test in his own country- and failed. 3 The most inveterate specimen, however, is to be found in the labour unions where it is ten-sciously maintained that labour is the master of all creative work, yet they fail to observe that the
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