Dear Editor
Dear Editor The New Leader welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words. Solzhenitsyn The cleverly written letter by Hyman Karnovsky (Dear...
...Holyoke, Mass...
...as Karnovsky puts it...
...It is with much respect that I write to such a great man...
...But can anyone maintain with a straight face that Marx worked unselfishly and unswervingly all his life for the purpose of human freedom...
...Indeed, isn't that the reason for The New Leader's existence, to spark political-social interest...
...You, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, came to the United States to convince the American leaders, whom you think are good, honest men, to stop supplying the Soviets with the means for oppressing the masses...
...Yet his statement that Marx was concerned with "expanding human freedom" (as, say, was his contemporary Aleksandr Her-zen) is also disputable...
...authorities for what they are, two-faced capitalists seeking wealth and power, not the desires of the majority...
...In short, why can't they do their own thinking, and not have Vladimir Ilyich Lenin do it for them...
...Each represents a failure...
...Only then will we learn who the evil men are...
...Wars, oppression and unneeded suffering shall haunt man as long as the "mighty" are allowed to determine the course of history...
...If you were to realize that Americans are oppressed, too, reality would be served...
...It does not follow from his argument about the Kremlin's interpretation of Marx that politics is not Solzhenitsyn's "bag...
...There were admixtures in his efforts...
...T. Jeff Delp I address this letter to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn through The New Leader because you have frequently published his work over the years—including, in the August 4 issue, his "Understanding Communism...
...Jack Dunn...
...I do so since I feel he is attempting to deal with people who simply do not exist...
...Perhaps they do not want to see it, and prefer to write clever letters showing that the truth is not the truth because Marx may have had some humanitarian feelings or because Solzhenitsyn's political methods are not so polished, or because he is religious, or authoritarian-oriented, or doesn't happen to think that the last Tsar was such a bad fellow...
...Karnovsky says it is disputable whether The Communist Manifesto contains even more terrible things than have actually been done...
...What does matter is that he has pointed out something true which we have not noticed or have forgotten...
...I, for one, have always had the strange notion that politics is everyone's bag—particularly if we are not to become docile, pro-Soviet sheep...
...The good people of this world must labor each day to comprehend this...
...Accept the U.S...
...Why can't people see that...
...as the spokesman for the Russian people, wish the American people to understand Communism, please understand capitalism...
...They are totally wicked...
...Sarasota, Fla...
...Solzhenitsyn The cleverly written letter by Hyman Karnovsky (Dear Editor, NL, September 15), contending that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ought to have differentiated between his attack on the Soviet system and his attack on Karl Marx' philosophy is an example of tautological reasoning...
...True, this might have been the gut impetus that gave flavor to Marx otherwise degraded, welfare-lived and self-centered existence...
...Did he free his mistress from horror when he intentionally failed to wake her as her mother entered her death-agony...
...I grant the means of oppression here differ from the USSR's—our methods are not physically advanced—yet the free enterprise system exploits workers at home and throughout the world...
...If you...
...They care only for profit and power...
...But may I make a plea from the American people...
...Karnovsky ends, moreover, with a conclusion seemingly drawn from his premises but really extraneous to them...
...And only then will we be able to defeat them...
...They care not for you or your countrymen...
...Do not try to deal with the Gerald Fords of this country as righteous individuals...
...Let us all recognize these facts before we lose a great battle in the conflict against the evil forces that now rule the earth...
...Each is only a term applied to an experiment...
...One might as well argue that Nietzsche's sole concern was to uncover truth Finally, it does not matter if Solzhenitsyn has nothing to "offer the West...
Vol. 58 • October 1975 • No. 21
