Double standards
Sir,—M. Creel (December 19) avoids the question I raised of the freedom and quality of life of the ordinary citizen as being the acid test of the system, be it Marxist or fascist. People cannot live on ideology. How does that ideology work out for practical everyday living? Where the system results in repressive totalitarian authority over the freedom and rights of the individual that is the “common denominator” pertaining to both, although the ideologies may be poles apart. It is useless for your correspondent to write that such conditions apply only to fascism and not also to Marxism. Recently a church service in an open forest near Leningrad was brutally broken up and arrests made. Is this not “fascism” at its worst?—Yours, etc., H. G. ORAM. December 22, 1986.
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