SOCIALIST PROPOSALS.

Evening Star, Issue 21631, 29 January 1934, Page 14

SOCIALIST PROPOSALS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Does the Xc'.v Zealand Welfare League wish ns to believe that there are men, aye, and women too, in this British Empire of ours, who deny that there are tertain loaders of ours who believe in a dictatorship backed by force? Why, the whole system we live under is a dictatorship backed by force. Ask any member of the working class who has attempted to point this out and the means of altering the position. They have had practical experience, and have no illusions about what we call democracy. 1 cun imagine the feeling of satisfaction the ten per cent, of population who are the real dictators would experience when they learned that the Trades Union Congress had recognised the danger to the Capitalist system of a policy which based itself upon taking the power out of the hands of the minority dictators and using it in the interests of the majority, the working class. Air Citrine, in effect, has told the workers who follow the leadership of the T.U.C.: “Wo don’t believe in dictatorships outside the one we are experiencing now. Our function is merely to see if we can arrange the encroachment on our living standards amicably. We prefer anarchy of production and its conseqent uncertainty of employment to planned production, if to obtain planned production _ interferes with the rights of Caoitalist ■ exploiters.” To sum up, tlm “U.C. w a Cap’talist f oo! bc'pin; to i r;p the worbtrs t'nl to a sy.tcin long since obsolete, whose property rights interfere w'th the full realisation of the available means to life, whose beneficiaries will not willingly vacate their position, and can only hold their position as long as the workers allow them. -1 am, etc., Sam Ikix. . .laniiary 27. [ln his last clause our correspondent unconsciously gives away his whole position. Every system of government that exists or has ever existed in the world can be called a dictatorship resting on force. The fairest system is one that makes the dictators (if they arc called so) answerable to peaceful force—the vote of the majority that makes and unmakes governments, each member of it exercising bis equal vote. That is the svstem in British countries, and as the majority of voters consists of workers. it is understandable why only minorities of those complain about it.— Ed. E.S.I