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The draft
of "The New Program of the Communist Party U.S.A." has just been
published in book form. The book has 127 pages. It is reminiscent of two
communist classics–"The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and
Frederick Engels, and "Left-Wing Communism an Infantile Disorder"
by V.I. Lenin.
The so-called
scientific outlook of the communists is emphasized in the foreword which
states, "In the study of nature, science recognizes that to control or
influence nature, man must discover the laws that govern it. To the extent
that he masters the laws of nature, he becomes the master of nature.
Similarly, to the extent that man masters the laws of social development, he
becomes the determining factor in the course of that development."
The development sought
by the communists is stated clearly, "It is a program for the
transition from capitalism to communism." (Page 4)
The book gives an
analysis of capitalism according to Karl Marx and a picture of the world as
seen through Marxist-Leninist tinted glasses. It then proceeds to outline a
practical program which communists and other should follow. It claims that
this program will produce on earth a state of limited bliss known as
socialism which will change into a state of unlimited bliss known as
communism.
The analysis of
capitalism focuses on the emergence of an alleged monopoly within the United
States which dominates this country and seeks to dominate the world. The
truth is that there is no monopoly within America remotely comparable to the
communist monopoly as advocated in theory and applied in practice in such
countries as Russia and China.
The deceitfulness of
their program is shown by the attempt to hide the essential core of
communism. They claim to be Leninists but ignore the heart of Lenin’s
teaching–The Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Lenin defined Marxism as
"The class struggle plus the dictatorship of the proletariat."
Lenin defined socialism as "The dictatorship of the proletariat plus
electrification." Lenin stated that whether a person was truly
socialist could be judged by his attitude towards the dictatorship of the
proletariat. The dictatorship of the proletariat is not mentioned once
in this latest communist book.
"The New Program
of the Communist Party U.S.A." is simply succulent bait concealing the
hook of communist dictatorship, class liquidation, and slavery.
A VISIT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
At noon on Wednesday, March 23, I addressed a
public meeting for students and faculty in the Wheeler Auditorium of the
University of California at Berkeley. The subject was "Communism and
the New Left."
I consider this meeting
one of the finest I have ever held on a University Campus. There were about
500 present. There was no heckling or disruptive behavior, and the question
session was lively and challenging.
In my message I
stressed that the essence of communist power was dictatorship through
monopoly and that the monopoly of communism was far more complete and
hideous than anything that had ever appeared anywhere under capitalism.
It was interesting that
during the question period, not one person rose to defend communism or to
deny its practice of monopoly.
The questions asked
revealed the prevalence of the delusions concerning communism that are so
widespread. I will recapitulate a few of the questions and the answers
given.
QUESTION: I admit the dictatorship and
the monopoly of communism are must undesirable, but why do we have to
worry about them in the United States?
ANSWER: The communist program to conquer the United States is expressed by
the formula–"External encirclement, plus internal demoralization,
equals progressive surrender." This program could succeed without any
substantial section of the American people voting for communism. The
essential element is internal demoralization. We need to be very concerned
about the demoralization proceeding within the United States. It is evil
in itself and it is an essential ingredient of the plan for communist
conquest.
QUESTION: Aren’t the kibbutzim in Israel run on communistic principles?
ANSWER: To judge the World Communist Movement by the original meaning of
the name "communism" is as foolish as to identify the "Boys
Club" with the "DuBois Club" because the names sound alike.
The essential features of World Communism are materialism, class warfare,
dictatorship, monopoly, and class liquidation. A movement which lacks
these is not a part of the communism which threatens the world.
QUESTION: If you took the dictatorship and monopoly out of communism,
would it be desirable?
ANSWER: I can’t answer that question. You are asking, "If communism
was not communism, would it be good?" Dictatorship and monopoly are
the very essence of communism. If you remove them, the remaining system is
not communism. Your question is similar to this one, "If cancer cells
were not malignant, would a cancerous growth require surgery?" If the
cells are not malignant, the growth is not cancerous; and if the system
does not contain dictatorship and monopoly, it is not part of the World
Communist Movement which has 46 million members, dictatorial power over 1
billion, and a working plan for world conquest.
The
students are intelligent, courageous and idealistic. They can and must be
informed of the true nature of communism, and they will overwhelmingly elect
freedom. They are a potential force for good. We must not lose them by
default.
REPORT ON VIETNAM
By Joost Sluis, M.D.
My trip to Vietnam has been one of the highlight experiences of my life. I
arrived in Saigon via Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Phnom Penh, the capital of
Cambodia. The approach and landing in Saigon is dramatic for the roads out
of the city are filled with a vast lineup of military convoys and civilian
vehicles of all kinds during the daytime hours; and one or two helicopters
hover most of the time over the airport to watch for any possible guerrilla
activities. The wildest possible assortment of civilian and military,
propeller and jet aircraft are seen on the ground. It’s one of the busiest
airports in the world with 1000 landing and takeoffs daily.
I was assigned for the
first four weeks to the Navy medical team at the province hospital in Rach
Gia, located on the shores of the Gulf of Siam about 150 miles southwest of
Saigon. Later I was transferred to Can Tho, another town in the Mekong
Delta.
There are about 900
partially or fully trained doctors in Vietnam. About 600 of them have been
drafted into the armed forces and it is planned to draft all Vietnamese
doctors under 45 this spring for a period of two years. This leaves only 300
doctors to take care of the entire civilian population of about 15-million
people in South Vietnam. You can imagine what this means. This is a ratio of
one doctor to 50,000 people. In the United States the ration is about one
doctor per 1000. During the three weeks of my work in Can Tho, I was, as far
as I know, the only fully trained orthopedic surgeon in the entire Mekong
Delta; it has a population in the millions.
Ground transportation
was a considerable hazard at all times because the Vietcong are able to move
about freely and terrorize the people over much of the area. The danger was
especially great for unarmed American civilians. The Vietcong regards them
as "spies" and reportedly were awarding a prize of 30,000 piastres
of about $250 for each one assassinated.
The army and special
forces are stationed throughout the country hamlets and their objective, of
course, is to expand the pacified or government controlled areas. About 20
miles northeast of Rach Gia was a hamlet and area called Kien Binh. A
sergeant of the "Green Berets" in Kien Binh was tremendously
interested in the Vietnamese people in his area and concerned about their
health and welfare. Regularly, he would bring or send a group of children,
mothers, or elderly folk to our Rach Gia hospital for care or treatment. In
my third week there, the sergeant’s commanding officer of the special
forces, Captain Blake, visited our house near the hospital. He said that the
word has gotten around amount the Vietnamese at Kien Binh that there was a
doctor, newly arrived in Rach Gia, who would be willing to conduct medical
clinics in their area. Captain Blake pleaded with me to conduct one or more
such clinics. He regarded a clinic as so important that he offered an escort
of an entire battalion, if necessary, to make it possible. This experience
gives you some idea of the tremendous medical needs that exist and also of
the ability, courage, and compassion of many of our fighting men.
Unfortunately, we were never able to conduct this clinic.
The health needs of
Vietnam far exceed those in the United States. Inadequate sanitation and
contaminated water supplies lead to such conditions as ascariasis or worms
which affect nearly everyone. The very serious disease, typhoid fever, is
common. We almost invariably had two or three patients on the seriously ill
list with perforated intestines due to typhoid. Groups of patients with
cholera, an often fatal diarrheal disease, were occasionally admitted at Can
Tho. A few people in the Delta were dying with bubonic plague, the dreaded
"black death" of the Middle Ages. Fortunately this disease
responds to certain antibiotics, which we had in abundance and their lives
could be saved if their condition was diagnosed and treated early enough.
Malaria was prevalent in the highlands, tuberculosis and late or neglected
cases of appendicitis were very common and even patients with severe
internal bleeding due to a ruptured ectopic pregnancy were surprisingly
common in Vietnam. In addition there were the war casualties who represented
over 80 per cent of our patients.
I will discuss briefly
the following subjects: 1) The medical work; 2) The Vietnamese attitude to
Americans, 3) The Vietcong, 4) American delusions about communism, and 5)
Some recommendations.
A large part of our
medical work had to do with the civilian casualties. These comprised over 80
per cent of all surgical patients. They are an inescapable consequence of
the war which has been raging there. About one-half of these had orthopedic
type injuries to bones and joints. Many of them were due to typical acts of
terrorism. In Rach Gia one night about 10:10 o’clock, a policeman was
admitted with critical, multiple wounds due to grenade fragments. He and two
other policemen had been ambushed within the city limits. His two companions
had been injured and then deliberately shot in the back of the head.
Tragically our patient died on the operating table about four hours after
admission due to massive loss of blood despite ten blood transfusions and
the best efforts of three surgeons.
Three boys, accompanied
by their mothers, were admitted at Can Tho with severe injuries. I had to
amputate the leg below the knee on one of them; a second had a partially
shattered hand which needed thorough cleaning and treatment of the broken
bones; and the third had an abdominal operation to close many perforations
in the small intestines due to shell fragments. They were part of a group of
five boys comparable in age to my own children, about 8 to 12 years, who had
seen something fall from the sky near their home. They ran to the hole in
the ground to see what it was when the mortar shell exploded, killing two of
the five right on the spot.
A third incident
involved an explosion in a bar or place of entertainment at Vinh Long. This
is the area where the war correspondent, Dickey Chapelle, was killed by a
land mine on November 4, 1965, last year. A favorite guerrilla weapon is a
"claymore mine." It is easy to make by imbedding a plastic bomb,
plus an assortment of nails, balls bearings and other metal junk in concrete
in an ordinary bucket. In this bar one night about 10 American servicemen
and 40 Vietnamese civilians and soldiers were gathered when a single
terrorist managed to place such a mine near the bar. As he went out the
door, he pulled the pin from a grenade and threw it near the bucket. Both
exploded killing 2 Americans and wounding 17 Vietnamese. Six were admitted
to our hospital including the two Vietnamese men who caught the terrorist
near the door and killed him on the spot. This terrorist was a 17-year old
student.
You could hardly judge
their medical care by American standards. The hospitals were old, having
been built by the French about 40 years ago. They were of the open pavilion
type consisting of one-story buildings without doors or windows and
scattered over a sizeable area.
Besides patients and
staff, they were inhabited also by goats, geese, and ducks who freely roamed
both the grounds and wards. All of our nearly 200 surgical beds in Can Tho
were filled to capacity with often two patients per bed while their
relatives cooked, kept house, and slept under the beds or in the aisles.
I would like to make a
plea to any doctors reading this to volunteer their services for a period of
at least two months in Vietnam. If you are interested, please write to:
Project Vietnam, 2233 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Washington D.C. 20007.
How do the Vietnamese
people feel about America? I found them very friendly, remarkably stoical in
pain and suffering, and grateful for the medical care that was given them by
Americans. This appeared to be so irrespective of the manner in which they
sustained their injuries. I say, for example, in the hospital clinic, many
of the patients who had been injured in an American air strike on Kien Binh
in November, the place where I was asked to conduct a clinic. At that time
116 injured patients were admitted to the Rach Gia hospital within a period
of 24 hours. Some of them had sustained severe napalm or phosphorus burns. I
noted no resentment toward Americans among these people weeks and months
later but rather gratitude and warmth.
Part of their attitude
is probably due to the terror methods used by the Vietcong in the villages.
When, on the basis of intelligence reports, the Vietnamese and their
military counterparts decide on an air strike because of the Vietcong in a
certain area, they warn the villagers a few hours before the impending
strike. This is to encourage as many people as possible to leave before the
raid. The V.C.’s however, often force the villagers to stay in the village
at gunpoint. They use the people as a shield and use the casualties for
credible propaganda that mostly innocent South Vietnamese women and children
are being killed by the Americans. It’s not surprising that this makes
people hostile to the Vietcong.
What is the attitude of
the South Vietnamese people toward the Vietcong? This is very difficult for
one person, who has spent a short time in just three areas, to assess. I
will give you a few observations which may or may not be significant.
Three of our four
Vietnamese interpreters had moved from Hanoi to the South since the Geneva
agreement of 1954. One of them estimated the number of refugees from North
Vietnam to South Vietnam as 1,500,000. One interpreter said the Vietcong has
been very cruel to her family in Hanoi. Another one simply was reluctant to
discuss the issue and I felt he might have been favorable to the Vietcong.
The refugee flow is the
most significant indicator we have of how people really feel towards a
regime. These refugees are "voting with their feet." It is no
small thing to forsake home and possessions and familiar sites and faces and
go forth into the unknown. When this flight is associated with danger and
privations, it is obvious that the regime from which the refugees are
fleeing must be hideous. No protestations of public support can drown out
the verdict of the fleeing feet.
Professor Staughton
Lynd of Yale University, however, has made a very revealing statement which
shows how the communists in Hanoi regard their support in the South. He
recently made an illegal trip to Hanoi, accompanied by Herbert Aptheker, the
theoretician of the American Communist Party. He stated that both the North
Vietnamese government and The Vietcong or National Liberation Front in South
Vietnam oppose free elections in South Vietnam. He says that they oppose
them because such elections in South Vietnam would perpetuate the division
between North and South and they want to unite all of Vietnam. This would
only happen if the Vietcong lost the elections. The Vietcong, however,
claims to have the support of 80 per cent of the South Vietnamese people. If
this were so, they would surely win an election. If they won, they could
immediately vote to be reunited with the North. Their opposition to a free
election in the South shows they do not believe they have the support of the
majority of the people there in spite of what they claim.
What is the attitude of
some of the Americans toward communism? I had fascinating discussions with
quite a number of Americans both in the hospitals and during my three visits
to Saigon. They were people from all walks of life and included doctors, a
few newspaper reporters, servicemen, intelligence agents, specialists in
communications and guerrilla warfare. Almost all of them were interested and
interesting for they dealt with all kind of practical problems related to
communism. They were all against communism but they shared the delusions
about the real nature of communism so common in the United States. On our
way to Saigon, a doctor in Hong Kong stated that communism in Vietnam is
caused by bad economic conditions. He said it as though that observations
was as obvious as the statement that there is water in the ocean. When I
suggested that Cuba offered evidence to refute that idea, he said,
"Well, I don’t know much about Cuba." I found that he didn’t
know much about South Vietnam either for in the Mekong Delta, where the
Vietcong is quite firmly entrenched, economic well-being is probably more
marked than anywhere else in the country. At best, that statement provides a
most inadequate diagnosis of the cause of communism. A system of treatment
based on that diagnosis is likewise inadequate. No program of economic
improvement, improved job opportunities, etc. can possibly succeed without
military or police to give protection.
Finally, I wish to make
a few recommendations. Firstly, Medical: Again I offer the suggestion that
any doctors reading this article consider the possibility of a two-month
period of service in Vietnam. The health needs of Vietnam should be a great
challenge to the American medical community, and I sincerely hope that my
efforts may bear fruit in improved medical care for the Vietnamese people.
Secondly, the
discussions with Americans in Vietnam clearly revealed the limited
understanding on many about the philosophy, doctrines, strategy, tactics and
objectives of the communist enemy. Such basic knowledge is the minimum
prerequisite for effective anti-communist activity on the part of every
individual concerned about the future of freedom. Dr. Schwarz’s book
"You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists)," I believe, is
one of the best and most easily understood books available to provide that
knowledge. I suggest that we send a copy to every American serviceman in
South Vietnam. They are among the finest fighting men in the world. They
need your and my moral support, and they need a greater understanding of the
enemy they are fighting.
In the last analysis,
communism is a highly personal and moral problem for each one of us. King
David in the Old Testament fully realized this moral problem when he was
faced with turmoil, wars, confusion and staggering problems of his day. He
said, "Search me, O Lord, and know my heart. Try me, and know my
thoughts and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me into the way
everlasting."
Are you, am I, prepared
to seek light, truth, and courage in this way and then ask ourselves,
"What Can I Do?
DR. SLUIS IN VIETNAM
Dr. Sluis is an Assistant Clinical Professor
in Orthopedic Surgery at the University of California Medical Center,
Attending Physician at the San Francisco Veteran’s Administration
Hospital, and a Certified Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopedic
Surgery. He is a Vice-President of the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade and
Director of its Northern California Chapter. He recently served as a
civilian surgeon in Vietnam under "Project Vietnam."
JANET GREENE
Janet has been joined by her daughters, Joan
and Marilyn, and they make a charming trio as they sing the songs of
freedom.
Two new songs have been
added to the arsenal of freedom. One satirizes the Left-Winger and the other
catches the mood of the Cuban Refugees and memorializes their heroism.
Poor Left-Winger
I’m just a poor left-winger
Befuddled, bewildered, forlorn;
Duped by a bearded singer;
Peddling his communist corn.
In the café espresso,
Sounds of guitars could be heard.
Twanging a plaintive folk song,
Spreading the communist word.
Hair hung around his shoulders
And sandals were on his feet;
His shirt tail was ragged and dirty,
Making the picture complete.
I followed him off to college;
This man whom I came to adore;
Where student demonstrations
Blocked every classroom door.
We led the march on the White House
And forced the cops to come in;
We claimed each one was brutal
As we kicked him in the shin.
It was all so intellectual;
What marvelous tales I was told
Of history’s certain progress,
Into the communist fold.
I fell for those empty falsehoods,
But now I know full well
Those little words on the poster,
Were all that he could spell.
Those dialectic phrases
Made a marvelous spiel;
But hidden behind that beard
Beat the heart of a frustrated heel.
Now all my illusions are shattered
About the man I admired;
I’m just a poor left-winger
Befuddled, bewildered, and tired.
Run
Chorus
Run, run, run, why do they run?
Mother, daughter, father, son.
Who can describe the angry sea
When the waves curl high and the wind blows free?
And the sea-gull’s breast meets the flying foam
While the fear-struck mariner dreams of home.
Chorus
Who is the little band on the shore
Undismayed by the ocean’s roar?
Eager to challenge the storm-crazed might
Of the crashing wave as they take their flight.
Chorus
The aged grandmother holds the child
While the daughter faces the ocean wild;
Ready to meet the fiercest storm
While her body cradles the child unborn.
Chorus
The tyrant’s hand is heavy to bear;
Its cruel might is everywhere.
Our children are lost if we remain
In our homeland cursed by grief and pain.
Chorus
The Land of Freedom beckons bright
As a radiant star on the darkest night.
We’ll reach the home of the free and brave
Or sleep tonight in an ocean grave.
Chorus
Eight of
Janet’s songs are now available on four small records at 45 RPM, and on a
long-playing album at 33 1/3 RPM. The flip side of the long-playing album
contains two messages by Dr. Schwarz: "The Dialectic" and
"What Can I Do?"
WORKSHOP
The distribution of the book "You Can
Trust the Communists (to be Communists)" to the servicemen in Vietnam
is well under way. If you keep the lists of names coming, we will keep the
books going. We are trying to get the names from official sources, but we
have not been successful as yet.
The Mid-South School of
Anti-Communism will be held in the Memphis Auditorium, Memphis, Tennessee,
April 25-29. This school will be televised for one hour each evening over
Television Station WMCT, Channel 5. Speakers will include former Congressman
Walter Judd, Herbert Philbrick, Dr. Fred Schwarz, Serafin Menocal, Father
Daniel Lyons S.J., Dr. John W. Drakeford, and Dr. Joost Sluis.
Anti-communism schools
designed primarily for college and university students are planned for
Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles this summer.
The first tape of the
"What is Communism" series has now been sent to 250 radio
stations. We hope many hundreds more will also carry this series.
The records and tapes
containing the 14 lectures of the "What is Communism" series and
the 8 anti-communist songs of Janet Greene are now available and the demand
is growing.
The tools are
available; let us put them to work.
"Though I give my
body to be burned and have not love, I am nothing." I covet for each
co-worker and myself a heart on fire with the love of Christ as we fight to
preserve and enlarge human freedom.
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