雷德在本文中虽对西方资本主义物质文明大肆攻击,反对“高利贷”剥削,反对战争和从备战获得利润的金融垄断,指责经济科学(资产阶级经济学)的无能,但是他始络不承认这是资本主义社会制度尤其是生产资料私有制造成的。他惋惜“许多〔科学家〕成了共产主义者,而且坚持做共产圭义者”,但在我们看来这却是最好的事情,而且也是唯一应当做的事情。作为一个资产阶级知识分子和代言人的雷德是根本不理解劳动人民和他们的需要的,本文中他不赞成农民“为实现物质进步……以自己目前村庄的宁静和贫困、徜徉和牛粪生活,换取内燃机的嘈杂和致命的臭气,工业化城市的神经紧张和胃瘤”,认 Although in this article, Rade attacked the capitalist material civilization in the West and opposed “usury” exploitation, opposition to war and the financial monopoly that profits from preparation for war, accusing the incompetence of economic science (bourgeois economics), but he did not recognize This is the result of the capitalist social system, especially the private ownership of the means of production. He laments that “many [scientists] have become communists and insist on being communists,” but in our opinion this is the best thing and the only one that should be done. Reid, a bourgeois intellectual and a spokesman, did not understand the working people and their needs at all. In this article, he disagrees with the peasants “in order to achieve material progress ... with the present tranquility and poverty of their villages, their sloppy lives and cow dung life, In exchange for the noisy and deadly stench of internal combustion engines, nervousness and stomach tumors in industrialized cities ”