The Third World War

The Conservative Communists

Although the world Communist leaders have learned to be much less doctrinaire than in the early days, their flexibility is still kept within narrow bounds. They have got over the old fashioned Marxian “disdain to conceal their aims.” They no longer feel that they must openly denounce the family, patriotism and religion, or openly proclaim their insurrectionary intentions. They are ready to make alliances not only with “proletarians” but with any class or group, nor do they balk at parliamentary maneuvers that would have been anathematized a generation ago as “petty bourgeois right opportunism.”