Question of Russia

It is not a question of being naive about Russia. The Workers Defence League estimates there are at least 20,000,000 human beings in the world today in actual or virtual slavery. And that at least half of the slaves in the world today are within the orbit of Soviet Russia. We have our share of the remainder, peonage in the south and our concentration camps during the war. And these things exist in root and as inevitable consequences of capitalism. And we are not going to solve it by distributing fantastic pamphlets that only add to the misunderstandings and cater to the prejudices of the day. For Catholics should oppose these things, not by advocating Americanism, but by frank realization of the evils of national states and by a Christian anarchism that, while not rejecting all government, does reject the centralized state which we have known since the 16th century.