Statism danger

Norma Anderson (Letters, 23 May) may laugh at Bruce Crichton’s criticism of socialism, but it is no laughing matter. The cause of war, dictatorship and other evils of society is indeed statism in all its forms.

Capitalism is the only system that guarantees individual rights. If Norma Anderson understood what capitalism was, she would realise that the few remnants of it in the west today are all that save her from the brutality and poverty prevalent everywhere else.

VALDA REDFERN

St Laurence Road

Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire