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Union of Opposites
One the surface it would seem that the communists and black muslims are
most unlikely partners. Their doctrines and announced objectives are
mutually contradictory. Their programs, however, converge at this point of
history with the common objective of promoting this violent racial revolt.
Black Muslim Doctrines
Black muslim doctrines are anathema to communism. The entire black
muslim movement is based on the claim of specific revelation from God
Himself. Communism denies the very existence of God. Black muslim doctrines
announce an irreconcilable conflict between black and white and the
essential superiority of the black over the white. Communism regards color
differences as incidental and believes the fundamental differences are those
of economic classes. They believe the irreconcilable conflict is between the
class that owns the means of production called the bourgeoisie and the
working class called the proletariat. They believe this class division cuts
across color hues and that the proletariat class is inherently superior to
the bourgeois class and will inevitable triumph over it.
The ultimate black
muslim objective is for a black state governed by a leader in direct contact
with God Himself. The announced communist objective is a classless society
where there is no need for any government because people are perfected by
their controlled environment.
The immediate black
muslim objective is to create sufficient racial violence and chaos to force
the United States to grant them a portion of the land area of the United
States on which they can establish an independent state. The immediate
communist objective is to promote violent racial revolt and to reduce the
United States to anarchy and chaos so that it collapses before the
encircling communist might. While the ultimate objectives of the communists
and the muslims are very different, their immediate goals are very similar.
This forms the basis for their partnership.
The Alliance is Fragile
The alliance will be temporary and fragile and is certain to collapse if
the revolution is successfully consummated. The muslims will then want to
establish a black dictatorship while the communists will want to establish
the dictatorship of the Communist Party under the false name of the
dictatorship of the proletariat. At this point their immediate objective
will conflict. I do not know if the muslims have plans worked out for such
an eventuality, but they would probably say that God will show them what to
do when the need arises. The communists have long experience in dealing with
the temporary partners whom they utilized for one phase of their program.
Freed from sentimentality, they dispose of them ruthlessly when their
usefulness is ended.
The Communist Dilemma
The doctrines of the black muslims make them inherently distrustful of
all white men and the communists believe that this is a handicap in
promoting a successful revolution. One of their immediate tasks is to
persuade the black muslims that it is legitimate to use white
revolutionaries to promote the black revolt. The typical arguments they use
are illustrated by this statement made at a black nationalist conference at
Lincoln University (Penn.) on Friday, November 19. Speakers at this
conference included Bill Epton, vice president of the Progressive Labor
Party and an announced communist who has been charged with incitement to
riot because of his words and actions during the Harlem riots of 1964.
Epton stressed that the
revolution required not only a black unity but also a parallel uprising of
the oppressed white workers. When several students objected to "joining
the white man in revolt," Epton said he did not mean to join them but
to take advantage of the opportunity.
The clinching argument
for using the white man was given by another speaker from New York, Mrs.
Pitman:
"Mrs. Pitman said
she would have no hesitancy about using white men to accomplish the black
revolution. If you’re going to use a blackout and a Negro can’t get into
the Consolidated Edison plant (New York Electric Company) and a white man
can do the job, ‘then, dammit, let him do it.’" A bomb is equally
effective whether placed in position by a black man or a white.
When they speak openly
of sabotaging electric power stations during a public meeting in a
university, there is no excuse for failure to recognize the magnitude of the
danger.
The report is most
revealing and a photostatic reproduction is published in this newsletter on
page 3.
On October 10, 1965,
Elijah Mohammed was interviewed by Irv Kupcinett on Kup’s Show over
Television Station WBKB, Channel 7, Chicago. His appearance and manner were
appealing while his statements were chilling. His appearance and manner
suggested a kindly, reasonable soft-spoken, fatherly gentleman. He showed no
belligerence nor animosity and answered all questions calmly and with
apparent frankness. It is only when the full meaning of his calm statements
is grasped that the sinister potentials emerge. The conversation went
something like this:
KUP: In your book, Mr. Mohammad, you
state that all white people are devils.
MOHAMMED: I did not state that, Mr. Kup. God states it. I am merely His
messenger.
KUP: In your book you state that war between the blacks and white is
inevitable.
MOHAMMED: I made it quite clear that that was not my statement. It is God’s
statement. He revealed it to me, and I am simply His messenger.
Mr.
Mohammed did provide a ray of sunshine when he smiled sweetly and said,
"Mind you, Mr. Kup, I am not saying that all white people will be
killed."
Evil ideas believed by
the most well-meaning men lead to evil deeds. It is wise to remember that
the monster, Joseph Stalin, conveyed the impression of sweet reasonableness
and paternal kindliness by his manner.
The basic beliefs of
both the communists and the black muslims are evil and lead to evil acts.
Both groups are convinced that violent action is both necessary and
righteous. Each group is a serious threat in its own right; together, they
constitute a magnified and deadly danger.
The Challenge
The challenge is to expose the doctrinal errors of both the communists
and the muslims and to articulate persuasively the doctrines of individual
value, individual responsibility and divine love as taught in the Bible.
Both the communists and black muslims will be refuted when we truly believe
and teach the message of the Bible that God has made of one blood all
nations that dwell under heaven and practice this principle in our daily
lives.
"OVERTHROW WHITES,
60 TOLD AT LINCOLN U.
"By John Roberts
"Speakers at the opening session last night of a black nationalist
conference at Lincoln (Pa.) University called for a violent overthrow of the
"white power structure" in the United States.
"Bill Epton, vice
president of the Progressive Labor party, who said he was a Communist, and
Mrs. Dorothy Pitman, both of New York City, told students that Negroes must
fight ‘from within’ to liberate the ‘black man’ in America.
"The first session
of the parley, billed as an Afro-American Youth Conference, drew about 60
students – about 90 per cent of them Africans, according to one
administration observer – and seven faculty or staff members or their
wives.
"MOST of the 650
students at the university attended a talent show or a basketball game also
scheduled last night and were apparently unaware of the conference or its
subject. Information about the conference reportedly was kept at a minimum
by student leaders, even from the school administration, although the
meetings were held in the Student Union.
"Samuel E. Andeson
of New York City, a senior student at Lincoln, directing the conference at
the predominantly Negro school, confirmed last night that Lonnie X of
Washington, D.C., Shavazz of New York City, and Daniel Watts,
editor-in-chief of The Liberator, had been invited to attend the conference,
which continues through today.
"ANDERSON
described The Liberator as a monthly ‘Afro-American revolutionary
publication.’
"Lonnie X and
Shavazz, both Black Muslim leaders, are alumni of the university. A third
alumnus scheduled for the program is the Rev. Milton A. Galamison, a
Brooklyn Presbyterian minister. Mr. Galamison was the leader of the New York
City Negro school boycotts in February and March 1964.
"Anderson said the
conference is intended ‘solely for the purpose of black unity.’
"‘There is no
more time to wait for civil rights laws to be debated in Washington and then
enacted, no more time to wait to be integrated into a society that doesn’t
want us as human beings,’ he said.
"‘WE must unite
our minds and our bodies to combat neocolonialism, imperialism . . . whites.
We must find ways and means of annihilating the white supremacy system.
"‘The greatest
enemy to the black man’s struggle is the black man himself . . . and I
could name four or five administrators here,’ Anderson said, in the first
of many criticisms of the university administration that were to be voiced.
The black man ‘has been brainwashed by wrong propaganda,’ he added.
"Epton built on
the theme that ‘the young (black) people today have taken on revolution. .
. the problem is to get them united.’ He urged students ‘to go out from’
the conference to their various communities to build revolutionary groups.
The structure of the United States is ‘a system that kills, corrupts, and
murders,’ he said.
"‘THEY do it
with guns, by starving us, by not permitting us to work and by feeding us
dope. Dope selling in Harlem is done with the connivance of the government,’
he asserted.
"‘Our duty as
human beings and as men is to break down this system from within,’ Epton
said.
"Claiming to quote
Mao Tze-tung, Chinese Communist premier, Epton said, ‘Your must dare to
struggle and dare to win.’ In other words, he explained, ‘You must have
the audacity to seize power.’
"Mrs. Pitman
echoed Epton’s call for a violent revolution, saying one thing Negroes
must forget is the notion that they ‘must be nonviolent to gain the
confidence of the white people. When men and women start to fight back and
think of active resistance . . . then you start to become a man,’ she
said.
THE revolution requires
not only a black unity, Epton said, but also a parallel uprising of the
oppressed white workers. It’s a simple question of numbers, he said.
"When this country
can no longer exact ‘super-profits’ from other smaller countries, Epton
explained, ‘that’s a point when (the white power structure) will have to
start sweating it out of white labor and that’s when white labor will
revolt.’
"When several
students objected to ‘joining the white man in revolt,’ Epton said he
did not mean to join them, but to take advantage of the opportunity.
"Mrs. Pitman
said she would have no hesitancy about using white men to accomplish the
black revolution. If you’re going to use a blackout and a Negro can’t
get into the Consolidated Edison plant (New York Electric Company) and a
white man can do the job, ‘the, dammit,’ let him do it.’
"CRITICISM of
the university administration mounted when one of the few American Negroes
present called it a ‘tragedy that we have administrators who fail to
realize the aspirations of young blacks . . . who call up white newspapers
who come to violate what we had hoped would be a private meeting.
"‘This is what
makes me cry,’ said Tony Montiero, a Lincoln junior from Philadelphia, Pa.
"‘I as an
individual am not interested in integrating into a white community . . . I
want a moral community and I see that possible only in a black community,’
Montiero said.
"‘GET us
administrator whose psyches react the same as I do . . . who can understand
that when the Ku Klux Klan came I said I’m going to kill the Ku Klux Klan
if they come to this campus, not go to a church to pray.’
"Montiero said he
hopes to see a student uprising ‘to march on the administration building
and say, ‘We’re sick of the Meckeses and the Ringes; we’re sick of the
whole thing.’
"(Daniel Meckes is
public relations director at Lincoln and Charles L. Ringe III is interim
chaplain and counselor. Both are white.)"
NONE SO BLIND–THE TRUTH
ABOUT VIETNAM
The opposition to the American policy in
Vietnam is largely based on the premise that the events in South Vietnam are
essentially those of a civil war and that the majority of the people are
engaged in revolution against the autocratic government which has been
placed and kept in power by the United States. They claim that the National
Liberation Front which organizes the Vietcong is an indigenous movement of
South Vietnam and basically nationalistic and that the communists play a
minor role in it. While they acknowledge that the National Liberation Front
has a fraternal relationship with the communist authorities of North
Vietnam, they say that until very recently the fighting Vietcong have been
South Vietnamese, their leadership has been South Vietnamese, and that the
majority of their weapons have been captured from the soldiers of South
Vietnam and were manufactured in the United States.
From this premise they
deduce that America has intervened to prevent the people of Vietnam taking
control of their own destiny. Consequently America is the aggressor. It is
an easy step thereafter to the assumption that the motive of American
aggression is to preserve the colonial or semi-colonial status of Vietnam so
that it may be exploited by American capital. Thus American presence is
American imperialism.
This is the message
that has been given at many Teach-Ins in America and throughout the world.
The American response has been that events in South Vietnam are essentially
those of an invasion of South Vietnam by the forces of North Vietnam; that
the National Liberation Front is a creation of the Communist Government of
North Vietnam and that it is controlled and directed by the communists of
Hanoi; that the attack on South Vietnam is part of the world-wide war of
conquest being waged by communism. If this is true, America has a dual
responsibility–she must keep her pledged word to protect the people of
Vietnam from the forces of external aggression and she must protect the
citizens of the United States from the encirclement which is part of the
communist program of world conquest.
The First Secretary of
the Communist Party of North Vietnam, Le Duan, has now made a precise
statement which should settle the question for all honest people. The
current edition, No. 6 of the Bulletin of the World Marxist Review carries
this speech which is entitled "Promote the economic and defensive
capacity of North Vietnam." He states, "Should the enemy march his
ground troops against the north, our standing army, and millions of home
guards operating as guerillas would check him and strike back. This force
has been tested in South Vietnam during the past few years . . . ."
This is a clear
statement that the standing army of North Vietnam has been active in South
Vietnam during the past few years. This reduces to nonsense the claim that
it is essentially a civil war in South Vietnam. This substantiates the claim
that it is a war of aggression of the North against the South.
The American presence
in Vietnam is both just and necessary. The realities of the war are
heartbreaking and hideous but the consequences of communist conquest would
be even more terrible.
Those Americans giving
comfort to the enemy by their demonstrations have no excuse for ignorance of
the true nature of this conflict. If they continue to advocate a course that
would lead to immediate slaughter for many and ultimate enslavement for all,
they cannot complain if many regard them as conscious agents of communist
victory.
"MOSCOW SUMMER"–A
REMARKABLE BOOK
A remarkable book has been recently published
in the United States. The author is Mihajlo Mihajlov, a thirty-one year old
Yugoslav teacher specializing in Slavic literature and languages. In the
summer of 1964 he visited the Soviet Union as an exchange scholar. Upon
returning home he wrote a long report of his experiences which appeared in
the January and February issues of "Delo", a Belgrade literary
magazine. Shortly thereafter the magazine was banned and confiscated and
Mihajlov was arrested for "damaging the reputation of a foreign
state."
The arrest and
imprisonment of Mihajlov is reminiscent of the arrest and imprisonment of
the communist leaders, Milovan Djilas, for writing the book entitled
"The New Class." Yugoslavia is often depicted as the country of
moderation which has cast away the tyranny over the individual so
characteristic of communism. In truth it remains a dictatorship by monopoly
and is essentially the enemy of human freedom.
During his visit to
Russia, the author visited leading writers, poets and artists and the book
relates his conversations with them and his personal ideas. Although he was
educated in communist schools, he reaches conclusions concerning Russia and
communism remarkably similar to those we have been proclaiming. A few direct
quotations will indicate this. The book is published by Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 19 Union Square West, New York, N.Y., 10003.
Death Camps
"The Soviet press is writing less and less about Fascist and Nazi
camps, to avoid any comparisons with the Soviet camps. This is quite
understandable. The first ‘death camps’ were not founded by Germans, but
by the Soviets. In 1921, near Arkhangkelsk, they set up Kholmogor camp, for
the sole purpose of physically destroying the prisoners. It operated
successfully for many years and swallowed up many of the Bolshevik’s
former allies–members of the non-Bolshevik revolutionary parties. Ivan
Shmelyov, the emigre writer who has rehabilitated in the Soviet Union,
describes in his famous book, Dead Men’s Sun (to which Thomas Mann
wrote an introduction), the dreadful years after the Russian civil war when
in 1920-21 alone 120,000 men and women in Crimea were shot without trial.
Stories are still being told about a certain Vera Grebenykova, a young woman
known pseudonymously as ‘Dora,’ who ‘worked’ at that time in Odessa.
She personally tortured and killed 700 prisoners." (page 69 and 70)
Socialism and Women
He is relating his conversation with Ilya Ehrenburg who was one of the
literary hatchet men of Stalin.
"Ehrenburg joked
about the domestic capabilities of Russian women, busy reorganizing the
world (he said), and incompetent at boiling good coffee. Thinking that I had
seen women everywhere in the USSR working on the most rugged kind of man’s
work (construction, ditch-digging, on the railways, driving taxis, etc.), I
asked Ehrenburg what he thought of the aphorism of the famous Polish
satirist Stanislaw Lec: ‘Socialism is hell for women?’ And further, had
the women’s right to equal work with men in the USSR transformed itself
into an obligation to work outside of the family, which, in fact,
means twice as much work for the majority of women? Ehrenburg avoided a
direct answer, and started telling me that in the future (Oh, this beautiful
future!) the machines are going to liberate man from work, that people are
going to have more free time which will have to spent somehow, and that two
things are going to play great roles in the emotional and psychic culture of
liberated humanity: art and women.
"This I could not
swallow." (Page 123)
Collectivization of Agriculture
"The truth about forces collectivization, executed at the price
of about eight million Russian peasant lives, has also begun to be
revealed in a major way–. The novel (second part of Sholokohov’s ‘Virgin
Land Upturned’) describes the deportation one night of a great number of
peasants from the village of Pukhlyaky who has been classified as kulaks.
Among the deportees is the novel’s hero, Ignat Tarkhanov, as honest man
who had never exploited anyone else’s labor, who had never committed an
offense, and who possessed some modest property on which he and his wife
labored peacefully and diligently. They had a house, a horse, a cow and a
piece of land. The violence against them and other kulaks is described as
being so monstrous that event he local Communists who were directing the
night’s operation against their neighbors began to doubt the correctness
of the measure." (Page 74 and 75)
Slave Labor Camps
He discusses the memoirs of a general of the Army, A.V. Gorbatov:
"The
most moving parts of these memoirs are those where Gorbatov describes the
Soviet prisons and camps in which he was held before World War II, a
victim of false denunciations. Especially interesting is the fact that he
names his torturers who, to this day, have not been punished:
"‘Soon they
started calling me to interrogations again. This time there were five of
them. During one of these interrogations, I learned by chance that the
name of my investigator-beast was Stolbunsky. I don’t know where he is
now. If he is alive, I would like him to read these lines and to feel all
my contempt for him– not only the contempt I have now, but that I had
then when I was in his hands. . .I still hear–just as when they were
carrying me away, exhausted and covered with blood–the ominous,
screaming voice of Stolbunsky: ‘You will sign, you will sign!’ I
endured this torture also during the second cycle of interrogations. When
they started the third cycle, however, I wanted to die as quickly as
possible.
"Gorbatov also
gives revealing descriptions of the camp regime, and of the distinction
the authorities made between common criminals and ‘enemies of the people’:
‘The guards, headed by their chief, got on very well with the criminals,
encouraging their inclination toward violence ans using them to ridicule
the enemies of the people. . . As a rule, they assigned the enemies
of the people to more difficult tasks, while the friends, i.e.,
the criminals, got the lighter jobs.’ About the actual work, he writes:
‘It will be very difficult for readers to imagine this picture. On the
slopes of hills, in a line nearly two and a half miles long, exhausted
people–not people, but shadows–drag along, stretching out their necks
like cranes flying, straining their last bit of energy hauling wood. It is
hard to pull wood down a hill, it is more difficult on a plain, but up
even the slightest slope it becomes simply impossible. People stumble,
fall down, get up, and fall down again. The load moves forward only when
someone from the rear comes to help.’ And about women’s camps Gorbatov
writes: ‘. . .But these were our mothers, wives, sisters, daughters,
most of them condemned because they were family members of the enemies
of the people. If we had not committed any offense, we were at least
accused of something, while there wretched women were simply victims of a
cruel and blatant despotism.’" (Pages 66, 67, and 68.)
The
communist version of human nature is naive and shallow. It believes that
environment and education can remove the love of truth from the human mind.
This book reminds us that although the truth may appear to be destroyed, it
will rise in newness of life.
THE COMMUNIST AND THE
FOLK SINGER
This article in the Communist Worker of
November 16, is significant for a number of reasons:
1) It shows the communist attitude to
Pete Seeger. They take a proprietary interest in his success.
2) It is a further demonstration of the increasing respectability the
communists are enjoying.
3) It indicates the importance the communists place on the medium of
popular music and folk singing. We must not allow them to be victors by
default in this field.
4) It reveals the respect the communists have for a letter-writing
campaign. Letters are powerful weapons and they can be used effectively
against communism.
"The Worker, November 16, 1965
"TV news
"By Fred Gilman
"Seeger Has Show
"Well, it’s about time! Peter Seeger has his own TV show. It’s not
on one of the networks, nor is it on one of the other regular channels, but
it is a breakthrough. Channel 47 (WNJU, and Ultra High Frequency station in
Newark) haw signed up the peopl’e troubador for 13 one-hour weekly shows.
The first one was aired Saterday at 7 p.m.
"The format, we
learned from Seeger’s manager, Harold Leventhal, will be ‘loose and
freewheeling, with guests from around the country and around the world.’
There will also be ‘popular’ music, as the term is used in Tin Pan
Alley, but none that is ‘over commercial.’
"WNJU will try to
sell the show to other stations, since most TV viewers in this area, and
around the country for that matter, do not have UHF sets, we should contact
our local stations to buy the show.
"REMEMBER WHEN ABC
blacklisted Seeger from ‘Hootenanny?’ I don’t know whether the owners
of the networks will be brave enough to take a look at the Seeger product,
but with the competitive rat race going on between them, a load of letters
might help them acquire courage.
"‘Shindig’ is
shot, and the ballyhoo of ‘Hullabaloo’ is fading fast. ‘Hootenanny’
was going strong until it started getting ‘over commercial.’ WE WANT
SEEGER!"
We must work
individually to promote the singing and records of Janet Greene, and
encourage other talented individuals to dedicate their musical ability to
defeat communism.
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