SOCIALISM AND PEACE
Sir,-—The West claims to seek peace, remove tensions, etc., but where economic and military vultures continue, as they have for centuries, to prey upon the producing section of society, peace is impossible. Peace will be impossible while man is dispossessed from the earth. However, peace expressed in universal disarmament would create a dangerous revolutionary situation to the dominant economic exploiters. Millions discharged from war industries and armed forces would challenge the practical titles of those who monopolise natural and publicly created values. The dog-eat-dog economy would disappear. By contrast, the- socialist states would release millions for further production, with shortened hours and sharp rises in living standards. The United States empire has no intention of watching its own funeral Its purpose is to consolidate, perpetuate and extend the exploitation of some 80 per cent
of the world’s people. Hence world wide aggressive war pacts to exterminate the Socialist States.—Yours, etc., JOHN BURBRIDGE. October 7, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27165, 8 October 1953, Page 7
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