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Every known economic scheme but socialism being convincingly wiped out by stultification in the best Shavian manner, the author then proceeds to establish the necessity, the practicability, of socialism-originating not so much with the Proletariat (the Third International is damned along with Capitalism), but with the great middle class (Fabianism). When with logic and concrete example, he has demonstrated the practicability of gradual nationalization of income, he shows that the great deterrent is not practical but metaphysical : the will to equality...
...hands of the Monitor, it is shown that University Extension work has increased in all its dimensions of late, until this octopus of education has in its grip the stray minutes of the workman's day. Brawn bows politely to Brain, overalls give way to gown, the proletariat educates itself, and the Monitor is happy. All's right with the world while the great god Statistics holds sway, and the Janus of these days smiles with equal radiance in both directions...
From 16 nations there converged upon Cassel, Germany, last week, furtive delegates to an ominous convention. Most entered Germany on forged passports. All were agents of the Third International: the Communist bureau at Moscow devoted to fomenting "The World Revolution of The World Proletariat" (TIME, Jan. 30). As the delegates filtered into Cassel, several were recognized by the German secret police. Shrewd, the police officials allowed the convention of professional seditionists to proceed in apparent deadly secrecy but contrived to overhear all that passed by means of dictaphones...
Meanwhile the Soviet press was vigorously astir with discussion of the significance of the Afghan visitation. Since the Russian proletariat has been taught to hate and despise "kings" and "emperors," His Majesty was ambiguously referred to in the press, by order of the Soviet censor, as a "Padisha." Curiously enough, however, the verbal use of "Majesty" was not barred, because research had established that the late Nikolai Lenin, founder of the Soviet State, whose every act and word has become a sanctified example, once addressed to the "Padisha of Afghanistan" a letter which began, "Your Majesty...
...These Kulak speculators," rasped M. Stalin, "shall be prevented from ever again attempting to starve the Red Army and the urban Proletariat...