CREED OF LENIN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19218, 8 July 1924, Page 4

CREED OF LENIN.

OF THE BREED OF ROBESPIERRE. The brain of Benin was ao narrow as his cnuolly was intense (says Mr Charles AVhibley in the English Review). He. had no faculty of thought or reflection. His philosophy, if the jargon that, he wrote and talked may be dignified by so august a name, was merely a rehash of the facile superficial heresies of Marx, a miscreant who know batter than most the poison that might lurk in words. Benin made war on learning, sci-moc. and the ails. It was his fixed creed it-hat nothing save tho proletariat should survive tho vengeance of which ho gave tho signal. The idol of those who had always cried aloud for “liberty," he mad© them understand at once that they should obey his orders or perish in misery. Restored to Russia by the Germans, ho abased his compatriots before the enemy, and net to work to make an end of their- industry and their wealth. Ho waged a savage war upon all those who djd not accept his domination, and wiped out all classes of the community who did not work with their hands. He made tho rich .poor, and did not enrich tho poor by a single halfpenny. Tho doctors fell before the same edict which sent scholars and writers to their doom. .Benin turned Russia into a desert.

Lenin was of the breed of Robespierre— a homicidal pedant. He put to death and to torture more men foil the mere reason that they did not agree with him than any man that ever lived. Perhaps,: saya Mr Whibley, that is why the intellectual Socialists of England bow down before hia memory in solemn worship. One critic of politics has gone so far as lo aay that he was the cause, direct or indirect, of JO.OtXt.OOO deaths; an over-statement, no doubt, and yet it is evident that in the killing of men. and women he has outdone the record of all previous monsters. How poor a, murderer dees Robespierre appear, on Le Bon, when their exploits arc measured with his.