DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT
Sir,-Congratulations to Mr. Boswell on his admirable letter in the April 24 issue, and to you for giving the space needed to publish in full. As Brains Tiusterfs so often say: "It all depends on what you mean;"-it all depends on what you mean by proletariat. .Mr. Boswell’s quotations from Lenin and Vyshinsky make abundantly clear that "proletariat" has in Russia today not the dictionary meaning of "the whole body of wage-earning workers" but the autocratic minority of the Communist Party. This clear demonstration is what makes Mr. Boswell’s letter so valuable. It seems that, once again, history has introduced a sardonic flavour into the dish presented by aspiring reformers. Marx and Engels, in the Communist Manifesto, 1848, should have written: "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to change but vour chains."
J. MALTON
MURRAY
(Oamaru).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 721, 8 May 1953, Page 5
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