We criticize Communism from the point of view of a people who believe that European culture has come alive again in us. To the European this means that they are serious and thoroughgoing.
In the European, there is a feeling of the uselessness to him of the art and literature he has so long appreciated. We say Communists have no appreciation of literature and art. We call the Communists fanatics, but this, from the European point of view, means that they are not skeptics. What seem to us obvious disvalues in the Communist world are often regarded favorably by Europeans. Here is something Americans find particularly hard to grasp when they discuss the question of Communism with Europeans. Any doctrine which presents a plan for a new beginning, for initiating a movement forward, is bound to find sympathy among people who feel that their inherited stock of ideas and attitudes is no longer fecund. Here is a fact which explains, at least in part, the attraction so many cultivated Europeans have felt for Communism.
Most Europeans believe that their culture is dead.
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