B_345_The-Rulers-of-Russia

Summed Up (1913) that by high taxes, shorter hours, and shorter
week, freedom to strike, etc., the owners of businesses could be
reduced to the point of being glad to be taken over by the State.
Another eminent Jewish Socialist, Professor Laski, of the London
School of Economics, is equally strong on 'the weapon of
taxation' . . . Mr. George Bernard Shaw, eminent British Socialist,
puts the bedrock idea of the whole business very bluntly in
the British Labour Monthly of October, 1921. He said: 'Compulsory
labour, with death as the final penalty, is the keystone
of Socialism.' ... In a fully Socialised state, opposition to the
ruling clique must from the force of circumstances take the form
of underground conspiracy, working secretly until it is strong
enough for an open test of strength. Against this danger the
ruling clique in turn must protect itself with a gigantic spy service.
. . . Russia's gigantic spy service and perpetual 'liquidations'
of suspected oppositionists are no accidental features. They are
inherent in full Socialism. As to how they work out in practice
a former Bolshevik Commissar of Justice named Steinberg gave
the following description in the New York Times of February
23rd, 1930: 'On the one side, we have intoxication with power
and a realisation that anything done by him who wields power will
go unpunished; and, on the other, fear, depression, silent hatred
and sycophancy; the rise of two classes, masters and slaves. In
turn the relations among the suspects become themselves perverted.
In the struggle to win the favour of the authorities,
treachery assumes appalling dimensions. All become slaves with
respect to the government, and wolves with respect to one another.'
The fatal defect of Socialism is its utter incompatibility with
respect for personality. , . . Human freedom is drowned in
an ocean of materialism. , . * The Marxian class-war is intended
solely to set the Christians at one another's throats. . , . The
whole trend of Socialism is to deprive Christians of their property
and to reduce them to a sub-human, animal status. It puts
them in the position the Talmud says it is their destiny to occupy.
Finance-Capitalism began the work. Socialism completes it." 1
*A. N. Field in Examiner, May. 1939.
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