COMMUNISM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27211, 14 October 1949, Page 8

COMMUNISM

Sir,—One of Russia’s strongest weapons is the air, and this she has used to scream persistently what she wants to convey to her sert population. As the 14 at the head exercise absolute control, Russia’s millions are easily kept in subjection. Now, Sir, is it not. true that all isms” have promptly adopted this form of procedure, no matter what they call themselves? It does not need much intelligence to see through the crafty objective of such methods, and in New Zealand we have a very good example.—l am, etc., Anti-Communist.

Sir, —After flirting with the Communists for a long time it now appears as If A. Rattar is trying to drop them overboard. It is quite clear that our .Socialist leaders are getting panicky; they are wondering whether the Communists will be able to devour the .Labour Party, from within. We are told that Communists are. not admitted to the Labour Party, but they are admitted to the labour unions, and the Communist-controlled labour unions control the Labour Party, so we are back where we started from. It is well known that the Communist or militant section of the trade union movement has forced the Government to do many things it did not approve of. The deeper into nationalisation we go, the more ruthless the leadership required, and that type of leadership will come from the Communists and fellow travellers within the party. History shows that always out of the Socialist parties—never from capitalism—have sprung the ruthless leaders to take possession: The Communists in Russia, the Fascists in Italy, Austria, and Germany. In 30 years of Socialist planning Russia has not learned how to produce abundance by force. With the whip, the gun, and toe concentration camp among her instruments of compulsion, she had at last to turn to the profit motive. . Alfred Edwards, Labour M.P., recently said: “ The man who would argue that Socialism is the means of ridding our society of the defects of capitalism is blind. Socialism just does not work. We must find some other means of dealing with the imperfections of toe privateenterprise system—we dare not abandon it.” I think our Socialists will find the large majority of electors agreeing with these sentiments on election day.—l am, etc., Matilda.