ABSTRACT
Before we pass judgment upon Communism, there are, then, three points which I think we should be careful to study. First, how the Communist methods of violence compare with those of their predecessors, i.e., what was the standard in this respect to which they were heirs? Secondly, whether the sum of human good is less or greater under the Communist despotism than under the despotism of their predecessors. Thirdly, whether it is less or greater, or promises to be less or greater, than under our Western régime.
