CORRESPONDENCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1921, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

KAI! I. MAKX DOCTTt I NFS

(To the Kditor). Sir.—l was interested ami sonicwlial amused to s.'t* vour editorial icioiou.t to the "doctrines expounded in the pages of Karl Marx” in Saturday’s issue. The very context in which you made such reference, demonstrates immediately to a -Marxist that, to say the least about it, you are tar Jrotneonvei sant wit,lt such ‘ docilities .is you ,-all them. I ipiote "doctiiues” hecausc Marxism is not the dogma ol i doctrinaire, hut a process of reasoning. Marx saw everything subj.-cl to 'he law ot tivolutioii. am! applied lilt' same law to society, regarding it as an organism, lias lie right in doing -o or is society something static. fixed, arnl SO. unlike everything else that

exists” . Von talk about the Labour paries ol Australia as though th \v wer. fouudetl on a Marxist basis, whereas any Marxist knows tliev are on an anti-Marxist Imsis. Marx never- grew weary ot pointing out that parliaments under Capitalism arc only part ol the Capitalist State, the institutions where the hougeoisie meet and create an executive committee "to administer the a Hairs of the whole hourgeoiseie. This mil tee is the cabinet. Marx was never a Reformist. in spite ot the lies of the Social Democrats and KantsUid ns. He always avowed that i e capture of parliament hy a Kelormist majority was of little use to the piolet a rial. ' Were he alive he would repudiate every Labour party m Hie world. The words of the CoinniuiiisJ manifesto which he wrote in IK. ■ stand to-dav "like a granite untouelied hy the tooth ot time. . n, Marx was a Communist. I am etc., C. K. S.U'NDKUS. (ireymouth, Sept. 12th.