Shigalov went on.
"Dedicating my energies to the study of the social organisation which is in the future to replace the present condition of things, I've come to the conviction that all makers of social systems from ancient times up to the present year, 187-, have been dreamers, tellers of fairy-tales, fools who contradicted themselves, who understood nothing of natural science and the strange animal called man.

Plato, Rousseau, Fourier, columns of aluminium, are only fit for sparrows and not for human society.

But, now that we are all at last preparing to act, a new form of social organisation is essential.

In order to avoid further uncertainty, I propose my own system of world-organisation.

Here it is." He tapped the notebook.