English Translation

164.) to combine a social revolution; in some places they will blur it, paralyze it elsewhere in many directions or at least moderate it. Another great argument for the gradual and each of the states and peoples concerned is the undeniable fact that almost every people and state of Europe and the world is at a different stage of economic and social development, in other geographical, political, moral and cultural contexts. Even today's war and any major upheavals resulting from it will be able to eliminate these differences with one blow, as the previous war did not eliminate them - even though the present war will certainly have a much greater unitary force in its subsequent consequences than the war of l9l4/18. But even after this war there will again be differences in political systems and national cultures, different stages of development, different degrees of democracy, different levels of socialization, and even different degrees, of freedom, of authoritarianism, in some of the backward parts of the world. I will mention only the most elaborate examples: there will be the post-war Soviet Union, perhaps with some changes, besides the new, if not different England, next to the postwar United States and China. But no one will dare today, of course, by