" Schumpeter remarked how pleased he was with the Russian Revolution. Socialism was now no longer a discussion on paper, but had to prove its viability. Max Weber responded in great agitation: Communism, at this stage in Russian development, was virtually a crime, the road would lead over unparalleled human misery and end in a terrible catastrophe. " Quite likely" , Schumpeter answered, " but what a fine laboratory" . " A laboratory filled with mounds of corpses" , Weber answered heatedly. "