The Descent of Bolshevism/Seeds for the Sower
SEEDS FOR THE SOWER
Russia cries, Proletariat! History echoes,
Sans-culotte.
The rule of the Proletariat is another
swing of the pendulum of Time.
Autocracy is a government of the few from
above; Bolshevism is a government of
the few from below.
Society may be likened to a rod, which only
a just government can balance properly.
But we are still trying to find the balancing
point.
Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism.
In a true democracy is the cure for most
of our social and political ills; but a few
of them must remain to keep us going.
A true democratic government is still an
ideal to be attained.
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals,
apotheosized by poets, sanctified by
visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to
one class of Society and operates on the
other.
Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but
it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be
of European descent, but it is Oriental
in tradition, Oriental in mood, Oriental
in temperament.
The Orientals are the extremists of the
world. As individuals, they are slaves
of Caprice; as types, they are slaves of
Authority, The one knows no law, the
other knows no exception to the law.
The Oriental in the Russian has set the
House of Socialism on fire; and the
European in the Russian has not yet
found the fire extinguisher.