THE MENACE OF COMMUNISM
Sir, —To Mr A. B. Grant, your issue of August 18, in describing celebrations here of independence for India, attributes the following statement: “She (India) had obtained political freedom from Great Britain, but unless she adopted the Communistic system she would never obtain her economic freedom.” Communism stands for: (a) The class war—the militant workers against the rest, with all the hatred and violence such a war means, (b) The dictatorship of the proletariat—mob rule, and not the democratic rule of the able, the honourable, and the wise. Communism aims at bringing modern society to ruin upon a mere chance that a classless Utopia will result. Communism, especially when masquerading in Conservative or Liberal or Labour clothes, is as dangerous as Nazism; and Communism is an even more dreadful menace to the diverse millions of India than to the easy-going thousands of New Zealanders upon which its militant cells now feed.—Yours, etc., AWAKE. August 20, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25269, 22 August 1947, Page 10
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