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The Bolshevik theory requires that every country sooner or later, should go through what Russia is going through now. And in every country in such a position we may expect to find the government falling into the hands of the ruthless men, who have not by nature any love for freedom, and who will see little importance in hastening the transition from dictatorship to freedom.

It is clear that many men willingly forgo wealth for the sake of power and glory, and that nations habitually sacrifice riches to rivalry with other nations. The desire for some form of superiority is common to almost all energetic men. No social system which attempts to thwart it can be stable, since the lazy majority will never be a match for the energetic minority.