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Show Bolshevism Is Not New Excepting in the Name There is nothing new in bolshevism excepting the name, writes Gustavus Myers, in the Review. The essentials of it, he says, were spread broadcast in the United States' DO years ago. Industrial communism, free and easy marriage and divorce, children the property of the state, abolition of religious re-ligious instruction, etc., were all proposed pro-posed here during the years 1826-34. The bolshevism of that time, like that of today, became an acute public question ques-tion with astonishing suddenness, but the approaches were gradual and could be traced to the French revolution and the anti-rellglous campaign headed by Thomas Paine. Then came Robert Dale Owen, with his gospel of perfect social and industrial equity. |