The Descent of Bolshevism

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Ameen Rihani. The Descent of Bolshevism

The Descent of Bolshevism

Table of Contents

Foreword

CHAPTER I

Mazdak and Mazdakism

CHAPTER II

The Khawarij

CHAPTER III

The Karmathians

CHAPTER IV

The Assassins

CHAPTER V

The Illuminati

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Ameen Rihani

Published by Good Press, 2020

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But the White Huns were still camping on the frontier, awaiting the opportunity for another Great Offensive. The opportunity came when Kobad arrived and straightway made an alliance with his country's enemies. And at the head of an army of White Huns he led the invasion, entered the capital in triumph, smote ​his infidel brother off the throne and regained the crown.

And Mazdakism, which had suffered a momentary check in his absence, became again a power of terror and frightfulness in the land. In the name of Equality, Lawlessness and Communism, the tables were turned, every crime was sanctioned or condoned, the rich, in consequence, becoming poor, the poor becoming rich, and everywhere the mob ruled supreme. Morality and religion were renounced, abolished; man became a law unto himself; and the strong, whether of the proletariat or the bourgoisie of those times, prevailed.

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