THE HYDROGEN BOMB
Sir,-Discussing the above and Communism, Mr. Dick Southon ends his letter by suggesting that peace might come between Communist East and the West, and that "this job starts from the proposition that they have what we need." He has something to say about dialectic and dialectical growth, but I think he must have his own meanings for these terms. Dialectic means the art of discussion by means of question and answer, and of evolving truths by logical discussion, Is this what Communism has and we have not? I doubt it. Quite recently we have had Mr, Khrushchoy denouncing Stalin and ‘his thirty-year regime of massacre, torture and terror. Massacre, torture and terror are not logical ways of evolving truth. Mr. Southon deplores the circumstance that "we accept as precious the religious attitude which believes wholeheartedly and unquestionably." Soviet Russians have exhibited just this religious attitude to Stalin and all his works for many years, and still believe "wholeheartedly and unquestionably" in the infallibility of Communist Party doctrine. So far as I can judge, the Kremlin men and the Soviet Russians have
nothing that we need to help us co-oper-ate sincerely for world peace and the outlawing of atomic and hydrogen bombs. The Western dialectic, whatever its failings or faults may be, is more likely to evolve truth and to arrive at what will provide sure foundations for peace than the Russian dialectic which demands first of all unquestioning acceptance of Communist Party doctrine as infallible.
J. MALTON
MURRAY
(Oamaru).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 873, 27 April 1956, Page 5
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