ABSTRACT
Since the return of peace, the civilised nations have come to face a fateful choice between Bolshevism and war. Bolshevism is outside the law and in violation of the law, in the sense that it involves a subversion of established law and custom at certain points. In any case, Bolshevism is not to be reconciled with the established order of things, and the points of conflict are of an economic nature. The Soviet form of organisation appears to be the appointed ways and means of working out this principle of action that inspires the spirit of Bolshevism. It is conceivable that absentee ownership might be superseded by some other form of organisation and control than the Soviet. The war and the armistice have made the world safe for absentee ownership and business as usual; all the civilised nations are in sore need of a full run of productive industry.
