Human rights in Russia
Sir, — When an electorate consciously votes for socialism
in its desire to liquidate capitalism, it takes an irrevocable historical step to a qualitatively higher social order, from which there can be no turning back to capitalism, as D. G. Sanders (April 29) interprets democracy. The expropriation of the private ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange by their social ownership, means as total a break with capitalism as capitalism was with feudalism or the slavery of antiquity. This was well understood by the wealthy classes in Chile who backed the Pinochet junta’s overthrow of the Allende government. Chile, on Allende’s election, was the most democratic country in Latin America.-Its attempt to advance to socialism through the ballot-box brought it the unenviable distinction of the most thorough-going fascist State in the Americas. This is true totalitarianism, and I suggest to D. G. Sanders, that it is the only totalitarianism. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. April 29, 1982.
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