ABSTRACT
Bureaucratism, with its accompaniment of ideological revolutionary piety, ought to take its place with Menshevism, Revisionism, and the "Infantile Left", among the standing enemies of the proletarian revolution. That the Hegelian-Marxian metaphysics plays straight into the hands of this enemy, needs no demonstration. Being a religion, it is the natural property of a priestly caste. Its pretence that science is something else besides a perfection of the natural process of thinking that wisdom is, in fact, a mysterious art discovered in Germany by a professorial wizard entirely unintelligible to simple men automatically divides the revolutionary culture into two parts. But if Lenin had been conscious of his own intellectual method and position, he might have tapped an immense reservoir of revolutionary will and energy existing in sincere but immature minds, Left Socialist-revolutionaries and anarchists, whom he was compelled to dismiss as "revolutionary adventurers", because he did not know how to teach them.
