ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the fall of the Soviets, caused by some cataclysm, the nature of which it is very difficult to foresee. It is not to be imagined that a consistently drugged society can exist for long, and these everlasting changes, this revolutionizing of everyday life, is really a kind of drug—a drug which is destructive in its effects, and is not favourable to life. The second possibility is the victory of the Soviets and the idea of Bolshevism over the whole globe. The third possibility would be that of Capitalism existing side by side with Bolshevism. With such a revolutionism as exists in Russia to-day, such a side-by-side existence could last ten, fifteen, even twenty years. But it would finish by aggression on the part of the Bolsheviks. Both the new economic policy and the five years' plan are only breathing-spaces for them.
