ABSTRACT
On the well-grounded basis of its free agriculture American civilization has successfully sustained an extremely rapid urbanization. The worth and validity of American political principles are being aggressively challenged by the philosophy of governmental planning. In the first place, both the United States and Russia are non-European nations. They are non-European not merely by geographical location, but also in their fundamental cultures. While European thought has deeply affected both Russia and the United States, the former has remained predominantly Asiatic, and the latter has become distinctively American, in both social and political practice. A second mutual characteristic of the United States and Russia arises from the fact that the government of each is based on revolutionary principles. Finally, American and Russian political theories, even though sharply antagonistic, are nevertheless similar in being directed against the supremacy of the National Socialist State as it has evolved, through State conflicts of increasing intensity, on the common feudal basis of Western Europe.
