Their feeble vapourings show no more than a
schoolboy's comprehension of the nature of the revolution. Parasites
themselves on the capitalist class, serving the capitalist class by
moulding public opinion, they, too, cluster drunkenly about the honey
vats.
Of course, this is true only of the large majority of American
editors. To say that it is true of all of them would be to cast too
great obloquy upon the human race. Also, it would be untrue, for
here and there an occasional editor does see clearly--and in his
case, ruled by stomach-incentive, is usually afraid to say what he
thinks about it. So far as the science and the sociology of the
revolution are concerned, the average editor is a generation or so
behind the facts. He is intellectually slothful, accepts no facts
until they are accepted by the majority, and prides himself upon his
conservatism. He is an instinctive optimist, prone to believe that
what ought to be, is. The revolutionist gave this up long ago, and
believes not that what ought to be, is, but what is, is, and that it
may not be what it ought to be at all.
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