June 12th, 1949
Dear Comrade Klugmann,
I append a Contribution to the discussion on the Political Letter of the E.C. It is slightly over the required limit but I must say I am amazed that World News & Views can find room for articles of extreme length but little, seemingly, for full membership contributions.
If my contribution is refused publication would you be good enough to tell me the reason why and not insult my intelligence with the remark that it has been placed before the Political Committee–there to be held from the Party membership, killed and buried. I dislike to speak so plainly but times are changing and you might as well know that the struggle against right-deviationism will be brought into the open.
Unless blinded by bourgeois conceit such comrades as Burns should realise that the gross mistakes we have committed theoretically, crowned by Campbell’s assertion that capitalism is capable of national planning in the general interest, have found expression in every single field of practical Party work.
It seems incredible that there should be people among us who are ready to believe that the class struggle ends on the threshold of our Party, that the influence of the bourgeoisie stops short of King Street. We witness and in part–when it suits certain people–report on the furious ideological struggle being waged against the remnants of bourgeois ideology clinging to the Higher Institutes of learning in the Soviet Union–their last refuge! Yet in Britain, with the State in the hands of the enemy, without a strong Party of the working class, we refuse to even acknowledge much less see that our Party is riddled with bourgeois ideologic thought and practice.
Incredible, but true!
Yours sincerely,
A. EVANS.