South African consulate
Sir,—There is nothing intrinsically or inevitably evil about oneparty socialism, just as there is nothing intrinsically or inevitably good about “opposition parties or traditional institutions,” as Mark Sadler would have us believe (August 23). South Africa is the prime example of a State which wears all the outward trappings and trimmings of Parliamentary democracy — a governing party and an opposition party, which
easily accommodates a political system and its philosophy the utter negation of democracy. Parliamentary democracy with its Gov-erning-opposition parties is the natural political expression of class-divided societies. Socialism, a society without classes, evolves superior forms of political expression. Communism, in Mark Sadler’s travestied version of it, bears not the slightest resemblance to it as expounded by Marx and Engels, its founders.—Yours, etc., M. CREEL. ' August 24, 1984.
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