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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 4. May 4th 1949

Hatred?

Hatred?

There's certainly plenty of hate in the world—so let's blame it on the Communists, like everything else. Perhaps you will tell me that the Communists incite class struggle? Allow me to quote from no less a source than a Southern Cross editorial January 7, 1917): "Karl Marx did not invent the class struggle; he merely happened to observe that it is inherent in an industrialised society in which one class owns the means of production, and the other much more numerous class works for wages. Since the employer naturally wants to make as much profit as possible, and the workers want to be paid as high a wage as possible, and since the two aims are opposed, a conflict or interests is inevitable."

Communists believe in revolution? Revolution, bloody or otherwise, was inferred by Marx's exhaustive study of history to be the natural process of change from one form of society to another. And when as we see everywhere in the world today, the masses of the people rise to take the power into their own hands, who fires the first shot? Did the Spanish people start the Civil War, or did the Fascist Franco? Was it the E.L.A.S. or the Monarchist police who started the war of hate in Greece?

Who today pours out the hate? Vyshinsky, with his disarmament proposals? Stalin with his offers of peace talks? Or somebody else, with talk of atom bombs and Third World Wars? "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God."