ABSTRACT
In American usage "democracy" denotes a particular form of political organisation, without reference to the underlying economic organisation; whereas "bolshevism" has primarily no political signification, being a form of economic organisation, with incidental consequences—mostly negative—in the field of politics. Bolshevism is a menace. Bolshevism is revolutionary. It aims to carry democracy and majority rule over into the domain of industry. Bolshevism is a revolutionary movement, and as such it has necessarily met with forcible opposition, and in the nature of things it is bound to meet opposition, more or less stubborn and with more or less unhappy consequences. The elder statesmen have no serious apprehension that the statesmen themselves are likely to be infected with Bolshevism, even by fairly reckless exposure, or that the military class, or the clergy, or the landlords, or the business men at large are liable to such infection.
