ENEMY OF FREEDOM
Sir,-G. I. Hitchcock does not understand the meaning of my phrase "run-to-seed liberalism," yet is sure it is not a suitable medium for Communism! Liberalism may once have been a vigorous political growth, but today it is nothing more than a fashionable political attitude adopted by the enlightened but unthinking middle-class intellectual who was recognised, by no less an expert than Lenin, as being the most promising revolutionary material of the future. Jf I understand him aright, G. I. Hitchcock has no hatred of the "Communist economic creed,’ shunning only "the hateful incidentals that go with it." But the Communist economic creed is the logical outcome of the whole Communist philosophy which seeks to reduce man to a status less than animal: to accept one is to accept both, since the one cannot exist without the other. To adopt any part of their economic creed must be to the detriment of a civilisation based on the Christian ethic. Senator McCarthy was not a "budding dictator" as suggested by R. S. Radford. He was a patriotic American entrusted with the well-nigh impossible task of rooting out Communist infiltrators from a society partly indifferent to the dangers that beset it, partly misinformed about those dangers. The smear-cam-paigners (Communists and fellow travellers) were quick to recognise a real foe and his downfall may well presage
our own.
N. E.
DOWNEY
(Lower Hutt).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 915, 22 February 1957, Page 5
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232ENEMY OF FREEDOM New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 915, 22 February 1957, Page 5
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