ABSTRACT
Soviet political relations, both internal and external, are analogous with those within and between primitive tribes. To both the tribesman and the revolutionary 'to destroy or be destroyed' is the governing slogan, and as in the animal world there is no distinction between war and peace. Disillusioned by the incompetence of the proletriat, once the civil war had ended, Lenin shifted his faith to the Party, and in 1920, wrote a thesis entitled 'Left Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder'. It was addressed to all the Communist Parties affiliated to the Third International, and its aim was to convert them into an operative revolutionary instrument. To misquote Milton, for the latter 'Peace hath her victories no less renown'd than war', as Communists hold that peace and war are reciprocal terms for a conflict which can only end when the Marxian Beatitude is established; since their final aim is pacific, they are peace lovers.
