The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1929. THE COMMUNIST AIM.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1929, Page 4

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times. FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1929. THE COMMUNIST AIM.

DimiNO a recent week tlio tenth anni. versary of the Third International (tlie Communist League of the World’s Workers) lias been celebrated with enthusiasm at Moscow. The keynote ol the public utterances appears to have been satisfaction with the progress already made in promoting revolution abroad, and resolute determination to carry on the good work for the future. One of the official organs of Bolshevism, remarks a northern writer, dwells with pride on the'' “ten years of ruthless war” waged by the International on capitalistic civilisation “without one minute’s cessation,” It boasts of the industrial and social disturbances that its propaganda has fomented throughout the world, and it warns us that Communism now possessing firmly established centres in 57 countries, will go on henceforth conquering and to conquer, never'resting from its labours till the existing social and economic order is utterly destroyed, ft is quite probable that many people who read such reports as these in the cable columns are not inclined to take them seriously. .My own view, says tlu| writer, is that their importance and significance can hardly he over-esti-mated; and the further one looks int-o the situation the more evidence is jorthcorning to confirm this conviction, in January last an American quarterly, “Foreign Affairs,” provided further testimony on these lines by publishing a summary of the programme that the Communist International adopted last September. This pronouncement is intended to 1)0 “a guide in the struggle against their oppressors for millions of toilers —white, yellow or black—under lne tropics and in the remotest corners of the earth”—a. new gospel for the workers in their fight against the hour, geoisie, and a prophecy of “the inevitable world dictatorship of the prolctar. iat.” The great “class war” is already in progress; it must be prosecuted with the utmost ruthlcssness and violence; and it means “an actual annihilation of the existing capitalistic State machine—the army, the police, the bureaucracy, courts and parliaments, and their replacement by new organs of proletarian power.” Naturally this conflict is not to lie confined to civilised countries. “Great masses if humanity have been drawn into the revolutionary maelstrom,” and the Bolsheviks see in “the deep ferment in fndia and the Great Chinese Revolution” different aspects and phases of toe class struggle which they are engaged everywhere in promoting. Three weeks ago an application from the South African negro trade unions for affiliation to the Third International was received with rejoicing at Moscow, and this is only one of many indications that mark the world-wide spread of the “class war.” Yet such is the credulity of mankind that many people appear to attach importance to the Soviet State’s scheme of universal disarmament, and the Bolsheviks tliem- ! selves, while ceaselessly organising world-war, are making play with the Kellogg Pact and persuading other nations to sign with them pledges of friendship and peace Those who still retain some faith in the good intentions of the Bolsheviks should read with care the section of “the New Communist Bible” which deals with the prospect of an anti-capitalistic war. For “throughout this manifesto arc expressed the highest hopes of a war of the capitalistic forces upon Russia, and the conviction that such an attack would inevitably unleash all the forces of the International Revolution.” The communists constitute a dangerous force which no community should un-der-rate, and the public at large should he alive to the possibilities of the unfriendly aim of these extremists lieing at all encouraged through any neglect or lack of interest on the part of those who should be wise to the occasion.