Have you noticed, during the past few months, how frequently Cabinet .Ministers try to deny the Socialist label and doctrine ? For instance, at Christchurch on August 22, the Minister of Railways said, The opposition is . . . trying to deflect the minds of the people from the real election issue—by raising this bogey of Socialism." This is in spite of the fact that the declared policy of the tabour and Exchange. Because he knows that Socialism is hateful to the majority of New Zealanders, Mr. Savage now says: "It is ridiculous to say that we are going to Socialise the land." * Look back a few months and remind yourself what some Ministers have said:— / "The object of the Labour Party is Socialism. . . lam a Socialist" —Mr. Armstrong at Christchurch, September 22, 1936. "The Labour Government stands unchanged in its principles from those it stood for thirty years ago, and it is still the same advocate of Socialism"—Mr. Webb at Kilbirnie, January 26, 1936. Mr. Savage has confessed that his government has only gone "half the —and Socialism, according to the Oxford Dictionary definition, J|:3 means "national ownership of land and capital—state distribution \ of produce —abolition of inheritance." i-'^i Socialism the First Stage of Communism. —Stalin has nothing to hide. Read his own definition of Socialism in his speech to the Eighth Congress of Soviets of U.S.S.R. in November, 1937.- y%:l ;;^ ; j "Our Soviet Society has already, in the main, succeeded in achieving : ; |^ Socialism; it has created a Socialist system, i.e., it has brought about :.'i; v ;'v£J what the Marxists call the first, or lower phase of Communism. V : !; Hence, in the main, we have already achieved the first phase of Communisms-Socialism." : -V/-; :^ Socialism is the Enemy of British traditions of Freedom and Democracy Re j ect Socialism vote NATIONAL,
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22512, 21 September 1938, Page 7
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