Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-03-12
u. S., Russia
Far Apart
In IdeoIogies
Wallace Fails TO See
Basic Difference
BY PAUL MALLON

WASHINGTON, March 70
w Vice President WallaCe'S cru
dlte speech to the Ohio WcS-
leyan conference flew so high
into the shakespeare philoSo-
ply of some one named Hegel.
ct al, that il missed many
front pages and few citizens
got what nc was driving al.
But it really presented what
might be called the Wallace
philosophy, perhaps even an Of
fetal administration idea, of the
postwar world. Boiled down, it
comes 10 this:
Russia is progressing from
Communism toward democracy.
Our democracy is progressing in
the opposite direction toward
Communism. We should meet at
a place called TX" and on
that spot, a postwar world
should be built.
Now, do not Immediately con-
clude that this is a strained sim
pllhcation OF the Wallace philo-
sophy, or that il is altogether
unreasonable. 1t is true, for
instance, that Stain has been
working away from MARKHAM
Communism. The Russian syS-
tenn today is more of a socialist
than Communist state.
On THE other hand, the New
" Deal has proudly proclaimed
its mild advance from de-
mocracy, as we used TO know
it, toward socialism Tennessee
Valley Authority and various
gov ment enterprises of
ownership and operation, and.
TO A lesser degree, the collec-
twist socialist philosophy of
the taxation policies. AAA,
NYA. Social Security, etc..
Nor can there be any ques-
lion about Mr.. Wallace's hope
that such progress. both in Rus
STA and the United States, viii
continue, Tor ne says.
1.-THE future well-being Of the
world depends upon the extent
Ia which MarXianism, as il in
being progressively modified In
Russia. and democracy, as we
are adapting Ii to Goth century
conditions, can live together i'm
peace.
"Old line Marxianism has held
that democracy serves the cause
Of the common man with plati-
tudes rather than with jobs,
and that il IL weak.
And. we, who believe i'm de-
mOcracy. must admit that rou-
tine science, invention and
technology have provided us
with new bottles into many OF
which we have not yet poured
the wine of the democratic
spirit. Democracy must be ire
mendously more efficient than
IL has been in the service Of the
common man and I'm the re-
sistance to selfish group pres
Sures."
IF THIS seems so indefinite
AS TO be confusing to you, YOU
are probably in the same boat
with Mr.. Wallace. While he sees
definitely the direction in which
he wants TO 60. he cannot yet
define where "X" is TO be.
He does rot know how far
Ve are TO GO toward MarXianism
and. therefore, cannot write the
specifications in a clearer way
that would Dc understandable TO
the general public.
All this sounds like it came
out Of a book, a very big book,
and no doubt much of il did.
Mr.. Wallace's tramp back
through the history of philoSo-
ply 10 prove that the German
Hegel and the German Marx are
the original philosophers of both
FasciSm and Communism may
possibly be true.
But no citizen needs a book
to see that Mr.. Wallace has
missed the whole vast
difference between the Russian |
and American systems.
Leaving all high philosophy
aside. the man in the street
what Russia stands for.
and he knows what America
stands for, and, therefore, he
Knows there is a sea between
hem more vast than any ocean
On the map
FOR ONE thing. the kind Of
socialism Stain represents is
.otalitarian. Democracy is anti
'otalitarian. Stains socialism is
not that OF freedom of the COM
mon man. but dictatorship hy
the worker Our form of govern
ncnt IS against dictatorship by
any group. worker, farmer, or
rich.
II seems clear that Mr. Wal
ace has fooled himself. by read
ne all the books into acceptance
II a theory that any man in the