ABSTRACT
Science and technology, in fact, present the reader with entirely new organizational problems. It was destroyed in the old sense because political wisdom, all the skills once considered necessary in politics, even the old moral standards, became irrelevant. The culmination was ‘Soviet Communism, a New Civilization’, without the question mark. It would be quite wrong, however, to treat a book as scholarly and perceptive as this one simply as a rationalization of current political prejudices. In short, as a contribution to the history of political ideas this is a notable work; but as a tract for the times its inadequacy is almost ludicrous. Among them, both in Britain and America, there are some able and attractive political theorists; but it is difficult to regard their doctrines as other than idiosyncratic - whether delightfully or dangerously so is a question on which their readers will have to pass judgment.
