But the governments were taken away from them by the militant proletariat.

At last was being realized Karl Marx's classic: "The knell of private capitalist property sounds.

The expropriators are expropriated." And as fast as capitalistic governments crashed, cooperative commonwealths arose in their place.
"Why does the United States lag behind ?"; "Get busy, you American revolutionists!"; "What's the matter with America ?"--were the messages sent to us by our successful comrades in other lands.

But we could not keep up.

The Oligarchy stood in the way.