Prime Minister’s
report card Sir, — According to M, Creel (March 13) Mr Muldoon has converted us to asceticism; he must be flattered by being accorded this power as this -“conversion” is happening all over the world, as inflation hits harder and harder. Marxist materialism makes the'. 1 mistake that the spiritual | element in people (whether, expressed in Christianity, Buddhism, Muhammedanism, or even humanjsm) can be neglected, What’rhe spiritual, element once achieved by emphasising rirffcnpss, Mara xism has attempted to ob-« tain by State regulation, se-< cret police, and all the other paraphernalia required to force people along the “right”' path. So Russian communism offers nothing more than Western capitalism. As a.concession to the spiritual element, the Soviet, authorities have allowed some degree of spiritual worship, only calling the object of worship, Lenin, instead of Christ or Allah. And really, is a fanatical Communist less fanatical than a fanatical Jesuit? — Yours, etc., V. F. WILKINSON, March 13, 1980.
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