SOCIALIST STATE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 414, 22 April 1937, Page 5

SOCIALIST STATE.

LABOUR GOVERNMENT’S 1 POLICY. Private Enterprise in Danger. Waipukurau, April 22. The steps already taken by the Labour Government to socialise completely the means of production, distribution and exchange were criticised by Mi-. W. A. Bodkin, M.P. for Central Oatgo, in an address at Waipukurau. It appeai-ed, he said, that the Government was determined it should be in complete and absolute control and free to deal with private enterprise in whatever way it thought fit in order to carry out its ideals of Socialism. In travelling through New Zealand, said Mt. Bodkin, one was continually being asked the question where was this Labour legislation going to end. Many people failed to appreciate the fact that the ultimate goal of the Labour Party was a Communistic State. It myst be remembered that there, was little or no difference between Communism;, and Socialism. Both were founded upon the teachings of Karl Marx, whose ideal was substitution of the State for private enterprise in every branch of industry. The Socialist Party hoped to attain that end by constitutional methods, namely, by legislation, while the Communist did not hesitate to resort to bloodshed and civil war. When the end was attained, there was in fact no difference between the two states. The god of Socialism and Communism was in each case one state.