MOSCOW’S GOAL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19443, 31 October 1925, Page 17 (Supplement)

MOSCOW’S GOAL

j BOLSHEVISM IN THE FAB EAST ; Discussing the activities of Bolshevik I agents in the Far East, Mr Stanley illice, in a letter to "‘The Times,’’ says jit is difficult to detect any indications iin the East of a real advance toward 'the goal of Moscow or of any other ' revolutionary centre. The cry of '“self-determination” is a wholly different proposition; it has nothing to do wi'h industrial revolution, but, on the contrary, in India at any rate, victory in that direction would probably serve to emphasise class distinctions more that ever. It is notorious that whatever advance the “workers” have 1 made in India is entirely due to the efforts of Englishmen, and especially of missionaries, whether their interference with a settled order of society bo desirable or not. The East prides itself upon the spirituality of its civilisation, and Indians are never tired of abusing Western materialism. Bolshevism and all that is allied to it is materialistic to the core, and it is none the less so in fact because “justice,” “liberty.” “wage slavery,” and other high-sound-ing phrtases are invoked in order to I clothe the nakedness of the creed .with some kind of idealism.