Communist threat

Re: Falling for the murderous fraud of Communism. Robert Fulford, Oct. 28

Our education system obviously fails to include the horrifying history lesson you give because our educators are like the director of the National Film Board — filled with utopian fantasies.

Our campuses have become fertile ground for these fantasies and are therefore becoming embryonic totali- tarian spheres with no room for dissent.

This is dangerous because young people indoctrinated with Marxism will be the next generation of leaders.

Howard Bockner, Toronto

Robert Fulford’s timely reminder of the reality of Communism is forceful and welcome, and yet he manages to softpedal his comparison with Nazism even so. A last step toward frankness is called for.

Nazism and Communism were the same kind of thing. A dream of a new utopian society, populated by a new, perfected form of humanity. With the root stock of that new people to be drawn from some subset of the existing population, naturally under the guidance of a leadership caste who sadly would have to work through the medium of a totalitarian party- state, secret police, camps and so on. It takes a lot to force human nature into a permanently new shape. And, of course, everyone not in the preferred categories was to be sidelined at best, or killed.

Communism was not good intentions to benefit all, gone wrong. Its methods were a function of its dreams.

Graham Barnes, Ottawa