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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 10. September 20th, 1949

"Soviet Slavery"

"Soviet Slavery"

Before 1917 the favourite argument used to be that Socialism would never work, since the workers had neither the experience nor the intelligence to govern themselves. But now there is the Soviet Union, the greatest citadel of Socialism, the only country which by its constitution guarantees the social ownership and control of the land and the factories, guarantees the right of every worker to a job, forbids racial discrimination, and gives women equal pay and statu; with men.

The Soviet Union is the hope, of the working class, the living challenge to the capitalist order.

Therefore, they seek to prove, by the coining of such phrases as "Red Fascism", and by a continual barrage of newspaper horror stories, that the Soviet Union is not Socialist at all, or else that it proves that Socialism is bad for the workers. Or, if they can't destroy Socialism in the minds of men, they propose to destroy it physically with a few thousand well-placed atom bombs.