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Dagobert Rimes was able to see in 1938 (when he wrote this book, but did not find a publisher) what it has taken many of his fellow writers much longer to discover: the theoretical fallacies of Marxian Socialism, the inhumanity of Soviet Communism. It might have accomplished more then than now, but it is still needed. For many of the same people who fell for the United Front “pitch” twenty years ago are compounding their error, and are still leading their double-standard Liberal students into the same folly.

Runes’ little book contains an excellent critical analysis of Marxian doctrine, of the political structure of the Soviet Union, and of the attempt to export Communism to other countries. Unhappily, Harry Elmer Barnes was invited to write the introduction, and pats himself on the back because he has “been able to maintain some objectivity and composure on the Russian problem,” which he describes as that of a “challenging economic system.” “It will take something more than the current Cold War,” he boasts, “to move me from an understanding attitude into passionate diatribe.” He proceeds with a note of nonsense about the Allied Powers intervening in Russia after the first World War, a Frederick Schuman-like description of Soviet foreign policy in the 1980’3, and a Vera M. Dean explanation of the beginnings of the Cold War in 1947.

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Anthony T. Bouscaren

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Dagobert Rimes was able to see in 1938 (when he wrote this book, but did not find a publisher) what it has taken many of his fellow writers much longer to discover: the theoretical fallacies of Marxian Socialism, the inhumanity of Soviet Communism. It might have accomplished more then than now, but it is still needed. For many of the same people who fell for the United Front “pitch” twenty years ago are compounding their error, and are still leading their double-standard Liberal students into the same folly.

Runes’ little book contains an excellent critical analysis of Marxian doctrine, of the political structure of the Soviet Union, and of the attempt to export Communism to other countries. Unhappily, Harry Elmer Barnes was invited to write the introduction, and pats himself on the back because he has “been able to maintain some objectivity and composure on the Russian problem,” which he describes as that of a “challenging economic system.” “It will take something more than the current Cold War,” he boasts, “to move me from an understanding attitude into passionate diatribe.” He proceeds with a note of nonsense about the Allied Powers intervening in Russia after the first World War, a Frederick Schuman-like description of Soviet foreign policy in the 1980’3, and a Vera M. Dean explanation of the beginnings of the Cold War in 1947.