CHILDREN AND BOLSHEVISM.
(To THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—My attention has just been called to a letter in the Spectator of May 29th, written by Reginald Wilson, General Secretary, British Empire Union, 346 Strand, London. Mr. Wilson bemoans our right to leach the children of our class our own ethics. It has not yet dawned on him that the ethics of the revolutionary is not his ethics or, for that matter, the ethics of the British Empire Union. We disown the ethics of Christianity, we disown his Church, we disown his Empire and his lords, dukes, knights, and all his Royal family. We call on the working-class to demand the complete surrender of the capitalist class. We claim the world for the working-class. We refuse to bow the knee to any superstition. We demand, on behalf of our class, the right to the share of every good thing in life, a full, free, and happy life. We are fighting for the conquest of bread, and we will leave all the gods of the world with their saints and angels to the Empire Union. Even the poor downtrodden Jesus, whom his class crucified, we will also leave to his class. There is not an educated man to-day who believes the Adam and Eve story, so Mr. Wilson is behind the age if he thinks he can frighten us with his Christian God and Christian hell. Our concept for the human race is not based on slavery, but on a free people. Our ideal is so great and grand that private property does not enter. This, I have no doubt. will stagger my friend Mr. Wilson. We know that the working world during all ages created a god suitable to its epoch, for gods are but -the reflection of the world, and as we change the working world so will we change our God. Mr. Wilson might think that problem over.—I am, Sir, &c., Tom ANDERSON.
Editor of the Red Dawn.
[The Red Dawn is conducted in the interests of "proletarian education. Mr. Anderson preaches the grasping of everything for a single class—the class of manual workers. Brains are ignored as firmly as Christianity is banned. Yet Mr. Anderson seriously believes that he is free from superstition. Children are actually being brought up on these selfish, pagan and incoherent principles.—En. Spectator.]
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