ABSTRACT
Bolshevism is a menace to the vested rights of property and privilege. The guardians of the Vested Interests have been thrown into a state of Red trepidation by the continued functioning of Soviet Russia and the continual outbreaks of the same Red distemper elsewhere on the continent of Europe. The Guardians of the Vested Interests, official and quasi-official, have allowed their own knowledge of the sinister state of things to unseat their common sense. This state of things, which so conditions the possibility of any revolutionary overturn, is peculiar to the advanced industrial countries. The limitations which this state of things imposes are binding within countries in the same measure in which these peoples are dominated by the system of mechanical industry. In contrast with this state of things, the case of Soviet Russia may be cited to show the difference. As compared with America and much of western Europe, Russia is not an industrialized region, in any decisive sense.
