The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-21


an appropriate measure for judging
the mentality Of Mr.. Wells! He re-
CARDS as the fruit of his own won
derful acumen, the discovery that un-
der Communism the present concen-
trated urban agglomerations will dis
appear and that many OF the present
capitalist architectural monstrosities
will only retain their value as his
torical memorials (if they do not me-
rit the honor of being destroyed.
How, of course, should the poor Com
munists (''the weary fanatics of the
class struggle" as Wells calls them)
hit upon such discoveries, which for
the rest, have long since been set
forth in the popular commentary up
on the old program of the German So
cial Democracy. We will not elabor-
ate on the fact that all THIS was al
ready well known to the classical
Utopians.
Now l hope you will understand
why Mr.. Wells failed to remark" that
laugh of Lenin's of which he had
heard 80 much. 1t was not laughing
matter for Lenin. l even fear that his
jaws were being moved by a reflex
action directly opposed to laughter
But here Lenin had recourse to the
service of his dexterous and skiIlful
hand, which was always ready to con-
ceal in good time the impolte yawn
from man too much charmed with
his own conversation.
AS we have already heard Lenin did
not teach Wells-for reasons which
we consider quite justified. AS com
pensation therefore Wells was most
emphatic in teaching Lenin. He i'm
parted to him the very original idea
that for the success of Socialism sit
is necessary, not only to build up the
material side of life, but also the
psychology of the whole people," He
pointed out to Lenin, that "the Rus
slams are by nature individuals and
merchants" He explained to him that
Communism was "immoderately hasty
and destroyed before it was able to
build, and other things to the same
effect "That led u.s." relates Wells,
ito the fundamental point of the diff
ferences of opinion between us, to the
differences between evolutionary Col
lectivism and Marxism" Under evolu-
tionary Collectivism one must under
stand the Fabian concoction of Liber-
alism, Philanthropy, economic social
legislation and Sunday homilies re-
garding better future. Wells himself
formulates the essence of evolution
airy Collectivism as follows: Il believe
that by means Of regulated system
of education of society, the existing
capitalist order can become civilized
and transformed into a collectivist
one" Wells himself does not ex-
plain who will carry out and upon
whom will be carried out this "regu-
lated system of education: the Lords
with the long skulls upon the English
proletariat, or vice versa, the prole-
tariat upon the skulls of the Lords?
oh no, anything you like, but not the
latter! For what purpose do there
exist in the world these enlightened
Fabians, the men of thought, of altru-
istic conduct, ladies and gentlemen,
like Mrs. Snowden and Mr.. Wells. if
means of regulated and pro-
longed exuding of that which is hiding
itself under their own skulls-to civil
lie capitalist society and to trans
form it into a collectivist one with
such reasonable and happy gradual
ISM" that even the Royal Dynasty of
Great Britain will not perceive it?
All this was set forth by Wells to
Lenin and to all this Lenin listened.
For myself" Wells graciously re-
marks, ''it was downright refreshing
% to speak with this exceptional,
small man." But for Lenin? Oh, long
suffering Ilyitchi He was probably
pronouncing under his breath some
very expressive and spicy Russian
words. He did not translate them out
loud into English, not only probably
because his English vocabulary did