ABSTRACT
The foreign world signs treaties with Moscow only as a means for getting into contact with the great economic and political complex known as Russia; and the Soviet government is meanwhile impatiently awaiting the hour when the progress of bolshevism abroad will sound the knell of the governments with which it enters into treaty relations. Yet in foreign parts there seems to be very little understanding of the main principles of Red propaganda, for were it otherwise more efficient means of counteraction would be employed. For almost a century the socialist ideal, and for more than half a century Marxian doctrine, have played a great part in the ferment of western civilisation and have been a stimulus to the aspiring masses of the fourth estate. The comparative inefficiency of the capitalist system in its attempt to deal with the problems of the post-war period has produced what can best be described as a stampede towards State capitalism.
