Marx, the Barbarian.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20567, 19 March 1935, Page 6

Marx, the Barbarian.

Dear Sir,—“ A Socialist ” still harps v convincingly on the virtues and modemi of Marx. I do not need to “cool t>f (one needs to be heated to be able to < that) in order to concede that ** has not given up the ghost yet.” I ha not the slightest doubt, nevertheless, th Marxism is waning significantly fast, the light of modem mental and ethical ci ture, imperfect as it may yet be. one ca not wonder that the rank and file of t middle and working classes do not ai cannot worship Marx, the impossible poll cal demagogue who wrote that the ends the Communists 44 can only be attained 4 the forcible overthrow' of all existing soc conditions.” In his newspaper. “ pie Ne Rheinishe Zeitung,” he wrote: “We I ruthless and want no consideration fre the bourgeoisie. When our times com' revolutionary terrorism will not be sup coated . . there is but one way of simplif ing, shortening and concentrating the dea agonv of the old society as well as t bloody labour of the world's new birth revolutionary terror.” Although Marx wobbled in his teachit and seems to have recoiled at times fro his self-imposed task of pressing incessant this bloodthirsty programme on his revo tionarv dupes, it is just such lurid passag as this which have supplied the fanatic urge that characterised the violent ai dangerous section of the Marxian schc known as the I.WAV., whose influence now happily waning like that of their m guided master. Who would exchange t constitutional metnods of Douglas Soc Credit or the New Zealand Labour Par for such a counsel of ruthless violence that quoted above? Surely even * A Socii ist ” must now come to light with son apology for it, or else stand convicted the pillory with his semi-barbarous idol I am, etc., CORNUCOPIA.