バートランド・ラッセル「なぜ私は共産主義者ではないか」
* 出典:牧野力(編)『ラッセル思想辞典』
ラッセル英単語・熟語1500 |
・・・。共産主義は、貧困、憎悪、争いを糧にしている教義である。その拡大は、貧困と憎悪の領域を縮小することによってのみ抑えることが可能である。
... My first hostile criticism of him (Marx) was published in 1896. But my objections to modern Communism go deeper than my objections to Marx. It is the abandonment of democracy that I find particularly disastrous. A minority resting its power upon the activities of a secret police is bound to be cruel, oppressive and obscurantist. ...
.. Communism is a doctrine bred of poverty, hatred and strife. Its spread can only be arrested by diminishing the area of poverty and hatred.
Source: Original title: The Marxist fraud.
Reprinted as "Why I am not a communist" in: Portraits from Memory and Other Essays, 1956
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