SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY
Mr. T. E. Somerville exposes the pretensions that the Soviet regime is beneficial to the people. But he is on shaky ground in his quotation from the Oxford Dictionary that Socialism is complete subordination of the individual to the State." The definition of Socialism by its authorities is common ownership of production, distribution and exchange, based on ethics and reason. Mr. Somerville also states: "There is another solution of this problem of justice for the people, it is a plan based on reason ... it demands that money shall no longer be the master." This inference to money being the master shows that money reformers are chasing the shadow instead of the substance. Real power is economic, the possession of land and industry ■with money as its automatic auxiliary. The greatest examples are seen in the U.S.A., where multi-millionaires own great industries. Only by a return to. the people of land and industry (by gradual means) can betterment be achieved—control of money will follow automatically. C. A. STOKES.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 11, 14 January 1944, Page 4
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