At the same time the political development of Britain exhibits great peculiarities, flowing from the whole of her past, and in large measure blocking the path before her. Without cramming our account with facts and figures which the reader can easily find for himself in reference books and studies of Britain's economic situation, we have set ourselves to identify and characterize those historical factors and circumstances that will define Britain's development in the immediate period. We shall deal with Britain in particular and not the British Empire, with the metropolis and not the colonies and dominions. The latter have their own line of development which increasingly diverges from that followed by the metropolis. Our account will be largely critical and polemical.
History is made through men.
An assessment of the vital forces making today's history cannot but be an active one. Under these circumstances polemic becomes an indispensable method of political analysis. A major American financier, chairman of many companies and US Wheat Director under President Wilson. He had extensive business interests in Europe and received decorations from a number of European states after the First World War. The international organization of Social Democratic parties formed in 1919 under the leadership of Lenin and the Soviet Communist Party to unite all those groups fighting for a consistent revolutionary Marxist policy.