The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-24
SF b0LSHEvISM
 WAS STARTED IN
 HEART OF FRANCE

New York, May 24.-(special Cor respondence)-A new origin for Bol- shevism has been discovered by La throp Stoddard, the expert on inter national relations, who claims that the founder of modern Bolshevism is a French syndicalist, Georges Sorel-
 Russia" says Mir. Stoddard in an article called "Bo1shevism, the Heresy of the Underman," in the June Gen. tury. has invented nothing" The I. W. w., Syndicalists, Anarchists, and Revolutionary Socialists are all Bol- sheviki, no matter what country they may reside in.
 Nineteenth century materialism spawned two great heresies. the he resy of the over-man. and the heresy of the under-man. The heresy of the over-man lowered in Prussianism; the heresy of the under-man flowers in Bolshevism. Both are deadly to our civilization. Prussianism would send us saber-rattling back into the gorgeous barbarism of Assyria; Bol- shevism would suck us down into the siattern savagery of the Congo.
 "Bolshevism and syndicalism are one and the same thing. Soviet Rus s!a has invented nothing. It Is merely practioing what others had been preaching for years with such adap- tations and forms normally at tend the putting of q thoery Into practice. Bolshevism- -syndicalism in Its present form is the work of two Trench thinkers Fernand Pelloutier and Georges Sorel. of course just as there were socialists before Marx, so there were Syndicalists before Sorel It was Georges Sorel who laid the practical foundation of Bolshe- vism.
 "'The Proletariat'-thnt was the new key-word. The van and even the main body of society. might be fairly on the march. but behind lag Ged a ragged rear-guard. Here were first of all the lower working class strata tho manual laborers in the narrower sense, relatively ill-paid and often Grievously exploited. Be hind these again came g. motley crew, the rejects and misnts of society. To these people, evolutionary Fabian so- cialism was cold comfort.
 Then came Georges Sorel, promis- ing not evolution. but revolutions; not in the dim future but in the here and now: not the bloodless "takins-over" by the workers" but the bloody dictatorship" of the "proletariat." Is 1t then strange that a few short years should have seen revolutionary socialists. anarchists, all the anti social forces of the whole world grouped under the blood-red banner of Georges Sorel! For a time they went under different names. Syn dicalists in France, Bolsevikis fin Rus sia, I. w. W.'s in America; but in reality they formed one army. enlist ed for a single war.
 We must recognize that Soviet Russia is not q mere war distemper, movement which had formulated it's philosophy and infected the whole civilized world long before. Bolshe- vism has ruled Russia for nearly two years. and Russia is utterly ruined. She ekes out a bare existence on the surviving scraps of her material and spiritual capital. Everywhere are hunger, cold, disease. terror, physical and moral death. The under-man is making his clean sweep. The classes are being eliminated according to the best preachments of Georges Sorel. Legal executions have neared one hundred thousand, extra.legal pro 1etarian spontaneity' has accounted for an even larger number. while ten millions of specially offensive bour- geoise have been slated for eventual elimination by the virtual suppression of their food rations. Meanwhile, Lerine, surrounded byhis Chinese ex- ecutioners, sits behind the Kremlin walls. a modern Jenghiz Khan plot ting the plunder of a world"