swinishness

He stuck to it that the Russian peasant is a swine and likes swinishness, and that to get him out of his swinishness one must have authority, and there is none; one must have the stick, and we have become so liberal that we have all of and a sudden replaced the stick that served us for a thousand years by lawyers and model prisons, where the worthless, stinking peasant is fed on good soup and has a fixed allowance of cubic feet of air.

彼は、ロシアの農民は豚であり豚のような下劣さを好む、そしてその下劣さから抜け出させるには権威が必要だがそんなものは存在しない、鞭が必要なのだと主張し続けた。そして、我々はあまりにも自由主義的になりすぎたため、千年間役に立ってきた鞭を弁護士や模範刑務所にあっさりと置き換えてしまい、そこでは何の価値もない悪臭を放つ農民が良いスープを与えられ、決められた容積の空気を与えられているのだと述べた