BERTRAND RUSSELL
Sir,-J. L. Winchester, in attacking Bertrand Russell’s timely article, defining Russian and other forms of "democracy," lets his Marxist emotionalism overcome his reason. He optimistically declares Marxism to be "true," and that it is continuing its "world-conquering march" in Australia, Britain, America and Greece, for instafice, or even little New Zealand. Is it because it is pro-
gressing Dackwards so tast that its annoyance has to be registered in all the widespread mischief-making and violence that goes so consistently with Marxism? This apostle of violence preached his "peaceful" policy in these words in his "Die Neue Rbheinische Zeitung": "We are ruthless .... when our time comes revolutionary terrorism will not be sugar-coated. . . . There is but one way of simplifying, shortening and concentrating the death agony of the old society as well as the bloody labour of the world’s new birth-revolutionary terror." Originally, Communists paraded to us the kindly Soviet eye-wash: "From everyone according to his ability and to everyone according to his need." Now we must quote Stalin himself rubbing this in: "What is the cause of industrial unrest? It is the demand for equal incomes, which makes the unskilled man lose all interest in being skilled and in the prospect of advancement. Incomes must be paid according to work done, and not according to need." So now we have manual workers varying in income amongst themsleves from 10 to’ 1, and brain workers 200 to 1. The high ethical standard of Marx’s idolised disciple, Lenin,,we can gauge from Lenin’s own words (from his "Left-Wing Communism"): "It is necessary to be able to agree to any and every sacrifice, and even-if need be-to resort to all sorts of devices, manoeuvres and illegal methods, to eyasion and subterfuge, in order to penetrate into the trade unions, and to carry on Communist work in these at all costs." Is this the "world-conquer-ing march" -- and aren’t they still attempting it? :
BRITON
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 381, 11 October 1946, Page 5
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