Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association. Vol 40. No. 7. April 13 1977
Dear Editor,
Being a tint year student and Katherine from the put two weeks' letten, I am surprised to discover that I too possess political or even 'Marxist' view which I dread to think so!
Those letters really confused me with what is political and what is Marxist. Does it mean that the normal or natural feeling of an ordinary person towards the Malaysian sketch, may it be good or bad, carry with it political Marxist views?
In other words, does it mean that the natural feeling that it is no good to laugh at others or make a laughing stock of others (whether they are hawkers or not) is equivalent to possessing a political-Marxist view? If that is how it's defined, then I am sure most Malaysian students as well as other overseas and Kiwi students have political-Marxist views.
May I ask "unsigned" (1) how much he knows about what is political- and Marxist? (2) What is His Purpose in putting a Marxist hat on anyone who sympathises towards the hawkers?
To end my letter, it seems to me that many students (including myself) still do not know or are unclear about what politics are, even though they are university students. As a result I hope someone could explain to me what politics are.
Shocked.
P.S. Does the Political Science course include the topic "what is Politics" in the teaching?