DEMOCRACY VERSUS TOTALITARIANISM 47 But, it is the sad task of the ideologists of imperialism to distract attention from reactionary trends of monopoly capitalism by high-sounding talk of communist totalitarianism. The time is irretrievably gone when the finance oligarchy could do what they liked at home and abroad with impunity. Now, the example and mounting impact of socialism coupled with the unfolding revolutionary struggle of the working class and democratic forces in the capitalist states restrain totalitarian tendencies immanent in monopolies. This is a fact that once more proves the Leninist precept that the destiny of democracy in the imperialist epoch is indivisible from the workers' revolutionary movement, which has the support of all progressive forces of our day and age; it is indivisible from the prospects of socialism. Today, it is impossible to be a revolutionary democrat without being a socialist. 1 R Ahlberg, Weltrevolution durch Koexistenz, Berlin 1962, p 11. 2 S Hook, Marx and Marxists, p 85. 8 0 Brinton, The Anatomy a/Revolution, p 179. 4 Ibid., p 213. 5 T Parsons, "Some Reflections on the Place of Force in Social Process" Internal War p6L ® S Upset, "Democracy and Social System", Internal War, p 272-73. 7 L Edwards, The Natural History of Revolution,? 175. 8 Ibid., p 181. 9 V I Lenin, Collected Works, Vol 26, p 38. 1 ® R Daniels, The Nature of Communism, pp 289-90. 11 H Arendt, On Revolution, New York 1963, p 74. 12 Ibid., p 71. 1 8 Edwards is worthy of note on this point: "there is no lack of order in revolution, no lack of social control...No French laws have ever been obeyed half so carefully as the decrees of the Convention during the terror." (L Edwards, op. cit., p 108). 14 Borkenau himself gives his "Law" the following formulation: Revolution ".. begins as anarchistic movements against the bureaucratic state organization, which they inevitably destroy; they continue by setting in its place another, in most cases stronger, bureaucratic organization, which suppresses all free mass movements." (F Borkenau, "State and Revolution in the Paris Commune, the Russian Revolution and the Spanish Civil WarJf, Sociological Re'view,N0. 29, 1937, p 67.) Rocert Waelder formulates this proposition in the following words: "Successful revolutions, it thus appears, arc Irkely to replace an authoritarian regime with a totalitarian one."(R Waelder, Progress and Revolution, New York 1967, p 262). 15 I Deutscher, The Unfinished Revolution'. Russia 1917-1967, London 1967, p 31. 1® Ibid., p 38. 1 7 VI Lenin, Collected Works, Vol 28, p 207. Elsewhere Lenin remarks that ^other countries will travel by a different, more human road." (Vol 29, p 271), 1 • H Marcuse, An Essay on Liberation, Boston 1969, p 69. 19 J S Martin, All Honourable Men, Boston 1950, p 83.