ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. In any discussion of communism, by treating it as a doctrine which would never have arisen; handful of criminal adventurers had not devoted themselves to its propagation. It is, of course, a dangerous doctrine. Its application involves tremendous risks, even on the showing of communists themselves. The communist, moreover, is playing with combustible material. Even those who reject his principles must admit the large degree of turn in the indictment that he brings against the present social order. Therein, certainly, is the lesson that the communist theory enforces; and they have either to learn that lesson in other ways or to admit the prospect that no means of avoiding its consequences are at our disposal. Communism has made its way by its idealism and not its realism, by its spiritual promise, not its materialistic prospect.
