“SOCIALISM IS SLAVERY”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19840, 14 May 1927, Page 14 (Supplement)

“SOCIALISM IS SLAVERY”

PROFESSOR LEACOCK’S VIEWS. At least one-half of the young people in our colleges are inspired by the same kind of social discontent that animated Karl Marx, and, if we think wo can put the iron lid of suppression cn their ideas, we are working for revolution and shipwreck,’’ said Professor Stephen Leacock, of Al’G.ll University, in an address to the Process oral Institute at Ottawa on “Soo’al Justice and Social Revolution.” After reviewing the Mar Gan plan of iSocialism, and its development an .is later days, Professor Lcacojk said: — “Socialism is slavery; that’s ail there is to it. I would be t Socialist in a minute if only the unfairness of the present system were concerned. But the introduction of So Jaiism as a goverr?ng force would launch us info a mechanical world of authority and command. giving equal reward to the loafer and the worker. 1 think we shall move nearer to the Socialist conception, but the basis should be, and must be every man for himself. No other motive wiil keep the world going. If waste be eliminated, I am convinced that four hours of work daily is all that is necessary. ”