THE ROAD BACK
"DERHAPS the greatest tragedy of our century is that the banner of. Marxist socialism was seized by Lenin and transplanted to the unfertile soil of | Russia and the Asiatic plains." The statement could only be made by a socialist. It is in fact made by an ex-Communist, Sid Scott, in the course of two broadcast talks entitled The Retreat from Moscow. In the first, Mr Scott outlines briefly the historical and philosophic base on which Soviet Communism rests, the reasons for the broad sympathy with which the 1917 Bolshevik revolution was greeted by the world outside, and the policies which steadily alienated that sympathy. He looks also at the proximate causes of the recent mass "retreat," to wit, Krushchev’s report to the 20th Congress .of the C.P.S.U., and the Soviet armed intervention in Hungary. In his second talk, Mr Scott deals with certain underlying fallacies of thought and consequent wrong actions which led the Soviet party; and with it the world Communist movement, inevitably away from socialism’s fundamental ethic-the brotherhood of man. In a passage reminiscent of Albert Schweitzer, he concludes: "Without liberty, without justice, without reverence for every incividual man, woman and child, we can only build on sand." The Retreat from Moscow: All YA and YZ stations, 9.15 p.m., Thursday, May 23.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 31
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217THE ROAD BACK New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 31
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