LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

Hobhouse. And I reckon about Mr. Owen, Robert Owen. And he wanted
to start something in Germany, but the ideas got switched off onto
Russia, a less favored country. A backward country, full of Tartars and
Muscovites, and Cossaks and Nomads. And the result has been in many
ways UNsatisfactory. In fact Owen’s ideas about factory reform, etc.
have gone a lot further in Germany, under the Führer, whose writing you
probably haven’t read. In fact you and Vandenburg and these sachems
probably haven’t read EITHER Stalin, OR Hitler, or Mussolini. So you
decide to take over an old shirt of Lenin’s, at least that passage about
training a staff of administrators, and you send a lot of unbreached kids
down to the University of Virginia to learn how to administer. Which is
looney. I mean if you think a kindergarten can administer its parents, or
infants officiate over adults.
The idea takes color from what it is dipped in. The idea of treating work
men like human beings, favored by Robert Owen, etc. has progressed in
Germany. I reckon for model factory conditions, etc. you would have to
go to Germany NOW, thought the Burgomaister of Worgl, [who] had
Henry Ford’s life or ghosted autobiography on his bookshelf. But for the
Senator’s information, before he gives way to nostalgia for a lost era,
and consents to puttin’ up a stooge, or pseudo General Grant, to initiate a
new era of pillage and public scandal. I mean by having a man, or
wanting a president who knows NOTHING about public administration,
but covers the graft by a military aureole, more or less.
Let the Senator READ a little Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini. Of course
you can GET Stalin for 10 cents in America, and you probably can NOT
get the works of the Axis leaders. Or if so, I suspect they would not be in
authoritative translations.
Well now, what in Stalin’s Foundations of Leninism? And where was the
error, if error? Was it in program or was it something that happened later,
in petrification of program? Or in Russian inability to act on exotic
ideas; and the general drop or droop or subsidence of the exotic ideas