ABSTRACT
The more settled conditions in Russia become the more difficult will it be to keep up enthusiasm. There are those who, believing as all good Communists should that the ultimate success of Communism is inevitable, would rather see Communism crash in Russia than have the purity of its doctrine contaminated by compromise. What gives Bolshevism life is not its Marxian doctrines, but its correspondence to a current of thought which is noticeable outside as well as inside Russia, the kind of thought which is much in favour among our young intellectuals, irreverent, irreligious, amoral, mechanistic, and materialistic in its expression, but vital, because it is founded on a realization of the failure of an old dispensation, and goes forward to conquer a new heaven. Bolshevism makes its appeal to this side of the younger generation's mind, and what they will make of it no man can tell.
