EXPERIMENTS IN REVOLUTIONS.
"At first sight it would seem that the Russian and the Italian experiments came near to cancelling each other out. In Russia people are ordered and disciplined in the interests of Communism and of a strangely bellicose internationalism. In Italy they arc ordered and disciplined in the interests of anti-Communism, and of a not very pacific nationalism. In both cases there is reason to believe that the mass of the population fiavo no desire to be thus ordered and disciplined. Signor Mussolini is scornful of universal suffrage and of parliamentary government, but what is the substitute he offers? Only that a country should be ruled by that group of people who succeed in massing the maximum of force at a given moment in the vital centres of its national life. Once in power, he says, 'a party is obliged to fortify and defend itself against all, * which is exactly what the Bolsheviks say. In other words, Russians and Italians alike, even if they grow still more tired of 'order, hierarchy, and discipline' than they ever Ave re of liberty, can only liope for a change of government if some other group masses greater force at the same points."—"Westminster Gazette."
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Northern Advocate, 16 June 1923, Page 3 (Supplement)
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202EXPERIMENTS IN REVOLUTIONS. Northern Advocate, 16 June 1923, Page 3 (Supplement)
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