Abstract

File and Remember

According to an English weekly, the "Spectator," in its issue of February 12, 1943 there is no difference between Russian communism or bolshevism and British capitalism, or plutocracy as one might say. "Even if such differences," says the "Spectator," "had existed at the beginning of the war, they no longer do so now." The contrast between Russian communism and British capitalism is not the last word in definition and distinction. Even if it were so when this war began, it is certainly not so today. Russia, after her revolution, went through a stage of fierce evangelism, but that was profoundly modified when, in 1927, General Secretary of the Communist party of U.S.S.R. Joseph Stalin established his thesis that a Communist Russia could exist in a capitalist world, and Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary who held the contrary, went into exile.