CHANGES FORECASTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1941, Page 6

CHANGES FORECASTED

MARXISM EREEDS DICTATORS. _ I am sure that Mr Hamilton Fyfe is right in forecasting great political and economic changes in tlio British Empire when the war is over, writes Mr Angus Watson to the "Spectator." But I think he is mistaken when ho says that "tlicre is a general acceptance of the necessity of what some of us call Socialism” as the alternative, if by this he means the State Socialism advocated by Bernard Shaw. 11. G. Wells, the Webbs and others. This form of government, which differs in no way from Marxian Communism (save in the method adopted to secure it), is more' suspect today than it was twenty-five ‘years ago. Civilisation {he world over has since watched the squalid experi|ment instituted by Lenin in Russia af- | ter the last war. and the insane National! Socialism of Hitler, and the Fascism oft Mussolini, both of which differ hardly at all from Marxian Communism except in name, and all of which have ended I in totalitarian dictatorships. There! need be no surprise in this result when! it is remembered Dial Lenin and Trot-1 sky both forecasted that a dictatorship was inevitable if Communism was to succeed.