“PROBLEMS OF LENINISM”
Sir,—Can brazen insult to the 7,000,000 Russian dead go further than Lord Hankey’s article, comparing their aims to Hitler’s? Can dishonesty go further than his labelling “Problems of Leninism” as equivalent to “Mein Kampf”? Stalin’s book, for many years known in New Zealand in various editions, is a collection of speeches and articles written objectively and completely non-personally. Lord Hankey likes to pick out short sentences capable of his own warped interpretation. Why doesn’t he quote Stalin’s “Export of revolution is nonsense”? Or his slogan of “socialism in one country”? Or his insistence that differing “ideologies” can cooperate amicably for the common needs of humanity? He presents as put-up policies what are plain descriptions of the realities mankind must face. Certainly, Marx said, “You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and international conflicts. . . .” Marx died in 1881. Wasn’t he right?—Yours, etc.. ELSIE LOCKE. May 12, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25182, 13 May 1947, Page 3
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