THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
THE RUSSIAN PLIGHT. Trotsky admits that poverty, misery, ignorance and prostitution are as rampant to-day as in the palmiest days of Tsardom. He blames for this remarkable failure of the Utopian dawn not the Communist system, but the omission to make it universal. He and his friends hold that you can no more have a partial Utopia, or Millennium, than you can a partial vacuum. The blessing must, to burgeon at ah, be applied everywhere. It was not enough to assassinate Holy Russia. It was imperative to murder the whole civilised world. When every country and race have been levelled down, and capitalism abolished root and branch everywhere, then will you behold the Golden Age at last. Stalin is less of a whole-hogger; not such a 100 per cent Revolutionary He thinks that Heaven-on-Earth imfy still be achieved on the instalment. £ system. —From “Old Stager’s” Letter.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1929, Page 4
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150THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1929, Page 4
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