ABSTRACT
T his, then, is the look of the age of world wars, at the be ginning of which we find ourselves standing. But behind it appears the second element of the mighty upheaval, the World Revolution. What does it want? In what does it con sist? What does the word at very bottom mean? We are as far from understanding its full content today as from grasp ing the historical significance of the first world war, which lies behind us. It is not, as half of us think, a question of the threat to economic existence from the Bolshevism of Moscow, nor, as the other half think, of the “ liberation ” of the working class. These are only surface questions. In the first place, this revolution is not a merely impending threat. We are in the midst of it, and not since yesterday or today, but since more than a century ago. It crosses the “ horizontal ” struggle between states and nations by a “ vertical ” between the ruling classes of the white nations and the others, and in the background the far more danger ous second part of this revolution has already set in — the whites in general are under attack by the collective mass of the 66 coloured ” population of the earth, which is slowly becoming conscious of its community.
