CACC
NEWSLETTER

July 24, 1967

EVERY STUDENT A TEACHER

Dear Friend:

“Every student a teacher” was the slogan of the school of anti—communism which was held at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. July 3—7. If this slogan becomes reality when the students return to their campuses in the fall, this school will rank as possibly the most successful we have ever conducted.

The News Media

One significant difference between this recent school and that conducted in Washington, 0. C. in the summer of 1964, was the difference in the attitude of the news media. In 1964 our school was essentially newsworthy. Hundreds of students gathered from the campuses of the nation and studied the doctrines and techniques of communism from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 p.m. White and colored students associated in complete harmony. Representatives from many foreign countries were present. Nevertheless, the news media ignored the school almost completely. Not a single reporter from a Washington newspaper attended a session of the school and heard one sentence spoken by a faculty member. Television was closed to us.

This time it was different. Both the Washington Post and the Washington Star sent reporters to attend many school sessions. Faculty members participated in quite a number of television and radio programs. The local CBS outlet, WTOP, Channel 9, presented the school favorably on its news sessions.

Frankly, I cannot account for the difference in the attitude of the news media, but it may be related to the fact that in 1964 we were surreptitiously and venomously attacked by a group of prominent religious leaders who secretly circularized the news media with a selection of scurrilous documents marked “not for publication.” This time we heard of no such action.

The Faculty

The faculty of the school was one of the finest we have ever had. Old stalwarts such as Walter Judd, Herbert Philbrick, and Robert Morris were joined by new faculty members including Serafino Romuoldi who was a leading officer of the AFL—CIO for many years, Shelton Blythe, the author of our study group workbook, and Phillip Abbot Luce, former leader of the Progressive Labor Party which is the Communist Party sympathetic to the Chinese Communists, and author of the books “The New Left” and “The Road to Revolution.” All of these made important contributions.

One of the great Marxist delusions of the age is that economic conditions dominate the lives and actions of all segments of society. It was refreshing to hear Serafino Romualdi, a labor leader who has spent his life working for better economic conditions for workers, point out that there are many other factors influencing the lives and attitudes of people besides economic ones. He referred to the innumerable occasions on which he had been called upon to adjudicate labor grievances based on personal dignity rather than economic well-being. He told of one labor union in Latin America with the slogan ‘ Bread and Roses.” Their motto was, “If you hove two loaves of bread, sell one and buy a flower.” This was to emphasize that man was a spiritual as well as a material being and that “man shall not live by bread alone.”

Shelton Blythe demonstrated how to conduct a study group and showed that the only gifts needed by a study—group leader were the ability to read, to write, and to turn a knob. With the tools now available, anyone possessing these abilities can conduct a successful study group. These tools are:

(1) The long—playing records containing the “What is Communism?” lecture series.
(2) The workbook.
(3) The book containing the lecture series “What is Communism?”
(4) The book “You Can Trust the Communists (to be Communists)”

When one of these records is placed on a record player and the appropriate knob turned, the lecture is given. The class may also follow this lecture from the text in the book “What is Communism?” When the lecture has been completed, the questions in the workbook are answered.

It is very simple and most effective. We are hopeful that scores of such study groups will be formed immediately and that the hundreds of students from these groups will then commence study groups of their own. In this way a geometric progression can be established so that millions can learn the nature of communism in a very short time.

George Westcott, M.D., surgeon of Ypsilanti, Michigan, closed his medical practice for the duration of the school and meticulously tape—recorded each lecture. The entire school is recorded on 14 tapes, each of which contains two lectures. By securing this set of tapes, anyone can conduct this school in home, church, high school, or college. It is our hope that some may be inspired to secure the series of tapes and present them to the local high school or college. The lectures and lecturers on each tape are shown below:

THE NEW LEFT
by Phillip Abbot Luce

A number of people are always perturbed by my general appearance. It is not unusual for somebody to suggest that I look like a communist. I assure you there is no way of detecting a communist by his appearance. I submit that I look like the reincarnation of General Custer before the massacre. For various reasons I decided not to change my general appearance when I left the “Progressive Labor Party” and the “New Left.”

I will attempt a brief working definition of the “New Left.” It consists of those organizations, political parties, and groups that have been founded in the United States since 1960, and which call for a radical change in our governmental structure——a move to the “Left.” These organizations are run by people under the age of 30 and they use Marxist terminology and phraseology.

Four typical “New Left” organizations are:

(1) Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
2) Progressive Labor Party (PLP).
3) The Du Bois Clubs of America.
4) The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNICK).

I will discuss these organizations and the role communists play in them and what our attitude should be to their members.

STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY (SDS)

The Students for a Democratic Society was formed in Michigan about 1960. It started off as a left— wing, but noncommunist organization. In its original statement of purpose, it denied communists the right of membership. As time went on and its membership increased, the programs of SDS became more radical and it was decided that it was possible to carry on a united front with the communists. You can now be both a communist and a member of SDS.

This has led to some very interesting situations. The Brooklyn College Chapter of SDS, for example, is headed by the National Youth Organizer of the Progressive Labor Party. (The Progressive Labor Party is an avowedly Communist Party in tune with Communist China.) A similar situation exists at Queen s College in New York.

Bettina Aptheker—lovely Bettina—is both a member of the Communist Party of the United States and a member of the SDS. The same is true of Carl Bloice who is the “Worker” correspondent in Washington, D. C. and a member of SDS.

However, the majority of members in SDS are not communists and it would be a mistake to contend that they are. It would be a mistake because many of them can still be reached and won for the cause of freedom. Most of them are simply idealists. They believe, mistakenly of course, that they can work with the communists. Many of them have joined the Students for a Democratic Society because there is no effective conservative youth organization which appeals to them. This is changing somewhat as Young Americans for Freedom is appealing to a number of SDS members.

The real problem with SDS is that as it grows older, it becomes more intemperate and radical. They have just held a convention in Michigan. The discussion ranged around two topics: (1) How to capture the campus; (2) How to avoid the draft.

A recent publication by the National Students for a Democratic Society instructed students on the specific steps they should take to capture political power on their campuses. Carl Davidson, last national secretary of SDS, contended in this pamphlet that it was possible for students to exercise complete authority on their own campuses. He proposed action as follows:

If there exists a student senate, but SDS members are not represented on it and do not consider it sufficiently 'left,' they should go to every meeting and create an uproar. It then becomes impossible for them to hold sessions. An opposition party is formed and when maximum confusion has been created, this party attempts to gain control of the student senate. If they are successful, the student senate is then abolished.

If a professor is not considered sufficiently radical or if SDS members do not like his position on Vietnam, the appropriate thing is to attend his classes and create so much disorder that it is impossible for him to teach. By the simple process of constantly asking questions, it can be made impossible for the professor to run the class.

High Schools

SDS is also advocating radical action on the high school campuses. Their literature provides one gem of understatement: “Fires in wastepaper cans will be interpreted by the Administration as a sign of student discontent.”

THE PROGRESSIVE LABOR PARTY (PLP)

The Progressive Labor Party is openly a communist organization. Members of Progressive Labor loudly proclaim themselves communists. It is much more violent than the Students for a Democratic Society. The Progressive Labor Party was involved in the Harlem riots of 1964. Its vice chairman, Bill Epton, has since been indicted and convicted and is facing a jail sentence for criminal anarchy.

Progressive Labor is not only working on the campus but is taking young people and attempting to send 4 them into the ghetto areas of Los Angeles, New York, and New Jersey in an attempt to inflame the black people to generate guerrilla warfare in this country.

When I was active in Progressive Labor, we made an attempt to recruit some real workers into the Party. A number of our activists went to the New York waterfront to try to enlist some of the longshoremen. The result was disastrous. Our literature was ripped up, and our workers were beaten up. So much for the Marxist delusion that communism appeals to the working class.

THE DU BOIS CLUBS OF AMERICA

The Du Bois Clubs of America ore simply a youth arm of the Communist Party of the United States. I attended the founding conference of the Du Bois Clubs in San Francisco in 1964. I have absolutely no doubt that it is an operation of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. The Attorney General of the United States has the same opinion and has called upon them to appear before the Subversive Activities Control Board under the provisions of the McCarran Act. Almost all the top officials of the Du Bois Clubs of America are also members of the Communist Party of the United States.

On the campuses, the Du Bois Clubs attempt to portray themselves as noncommunist, but left liberal. They are not like Progressive Labor who openly boast of their communist affiliation. They attempt to confuse students and persuade them to join their organization which in turn becomes a recruiting ground for the Communist Party of the United States.

STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE (SNICK)

SNICK has undergone a number of changes. It started out as an organization that attempted to enlist white support on the campuses but has now become almost exclusively devoted to “black power.” J. Edgar Hoover recently pointed out that there is now documented evidence that some of the top leadership of SNICK has been dealing directly with members of the Progressive Labor Party and also with members of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM). You will recall that the press recently reported that members of RAM were engaged in a plot to assassinate moderate civil rights workers, Whitney Young and Roy Wilkins. RAM is certainly the most dangerous of all the black power organizations in the United States.

THE CORRECT ATTITUDE TO THE NEW LEFT

In dealing with the members of the “New Left” on the campuses, we must be careful that we distinguish between the hard—core leadership and the general membership. The leadership of some of these organizations is communist and dedicated to the goal of establishing communist dictatorship in this country. This does not apply, however, to the general membership. The majority of these students can be reached, and it is our job as individuals and organizations to try to reach them and win them over.

I almost think we have to win them over because, if you figure the devotion and time and energy expended by these individuals against the United States and then conceive of it being used for the American way, we would have created a mighty force for freedom. But the only way we are going to do this is by sitting down with them and exposing to them the real fallacies of the ideas of the organizations they have been serving. We must convince them that they ore advocating less freedom, not more freedom.

What these kids don’ t realize is that if the communists took power somehow in the United States, they would be the second group—not the first—that would literally go—the protesters, the dissenters, the artists, the poets, the playwrights, the kids with the beards and the long hair. No communist country allows dissent. I spent some time in Cuba with a number of young artists, many of whom had lived in the United States and went back to Cuba because they thought the millennium had arrived. When they got back to Cuba, they tried to paint what they wanted to and to do what they wanted to and found themselves on eucalyptus farms which are a polite form of slave labor camps. They stayed on these forms until their thoughts were reconstructed, a-id they began to produce what the state wonted.

When I speak on college campuses, some girl with extremely long hair in the dress of the college radical will almost invariably stand up and ask, “How can you talk about freedom in this country?”

If there wasn’t freedom, she wouldn’t’ t look like that. If there wasn’t freedom in this country, I wouldn’t’ t look like I do. Do you realize that it’ s against the low in Bulgaria to have a beard? These kids are deluded when they can’ t see the freedom they have in this country.

We can show them that only in this country are they going to have any real freedom. We can show them that for all the things that are wrong in this country (and everyone agrees some things are wrong), you have still more going for you here than in any other place in the world.

We must get as much material into their hands as possible. There is a great wealth of material written by ex—communists. There is also much material written by intelligent critics of communism. One of the great values of the Christian Anti—Communism Crusade is that it is attempting to get material into the hands of students to show them how communism can best be combated and also the virtues of freedom. We must go to the campuses, talk to the freshmen, reach those kids that are in SDS and other organizations and fight it out with them ideologically and convince them that only through real belief in democracy, the Bill of-Rights, and the Constitution are they ever going to be free.
WHAT IS COMMUNISM?

Lecture 8 — COMMUNIST FRONTS

Communism calls itself the science of Marxism-Leninism. The genius of communism is that it recruits into its service many noncommunists and even anti-communists who are completely unaware that they are serving the communist cause. One method by which it does this is through the establishment of communist fronts

A communist front may be defined as an organization which is formed by the communists to promote a communist objective but whose membership is mostly noncommunist and whose announced objective bears no obvious relationship to communism.

A communist front has a dual purpose. There is the real purpose for which the communists created it, and there is the announced purpose which is always quite different.

For example, the communists may organize a front with the real purpose of disarming America so that blackmail by overwhelming Soviet military might may be adequate to force surrender. If they announced that this was the objective of the organization the membership would be small. The only members would be the dedicated communists. They must promote an objective which will commend itself to many people but which will advance the real communist objective. If they set up a peace organization with the announced objective of protecting people from the disastrous consequences of war, they will attract many. They can then argue that armaments cause war so they demand disarmament. Since the organization will operate only in noncommunist countries or within the United States, the net result of its program would be to reduce America’s military power. If this were carried far enough, it would put America in the position where military blackmail could enforce surrender. Thus, the real goal could be reached.

The announced objective recruits the noncommunists and these become the tools of the communists.

Groups in a Communist Front

The people in a communist front may be classified in a number of groups. These groups are: 1) The communists, 2) The fellow-travelers, 3) The sympathizers, 4) The pseudo-liberals, and 5) The dupes. I will try to give a brief definition of each of these groups.

The communists are the members of the Communist Party. Membership may be public or secret. While some boast of their communist affiliation others hide their membership in the Communist Party and when questioned, deny that they are communists. These people are generally referred to as crypto-communists. They are under communist discipline and secretly directed by the Communist Party.

In every country where a Communist Party is permitted, it is always accompanied by an illegal Communist Party. By decision of the International Communist Movement, the legal party is always under the control of the illegal party. There are always secret communists or crypto-communists who are subject to communist discipline, but their communist membership is not known.

The second group is made up of fellow-travelers. A fellow-traveler is defined as an individual who approves communist doctrines, communist methods, and communist objectives, but who for some personal reason, has never been able to make the complete personal sacrifice demanded by membership in the Communist Party. He often has a guilty conscience because he is not an actual communist member. He may compensate for this by greater dedication to specific communist objectives than even the communists themselves show.
However, he is not a member of the Communist Party and can publicly deny that he is a member. If he is accused of being a member, he can sue for libel and the courts may decide that he has been libeled and assess considerable damages. Nevertheless, he is an active supporter of communist doctrines and causes. He is what Gus Hall refers to as a “state of mind” communist. It is generally agreed that there are approximately ten fellow-travelers or “state of mind” communists for every actual member of the Communist Party.

The third group consists of sympathizers. These are members of a variety of socialist, pacifist, and radical organizations that would call themselves left-leaning but noncommunist. This group has a basic sympathy with many though not all of the programs and objectives of communism For example, I was once talking with a member of the executive of the Socialist Party, and we were discussing the evil of dictatorship. I said to him, “You don’t seem to be as antagonistic to the dictatorship of Tito in Yugoslavia as you are to the dictatorship of Franco in Spain.” He replied without hesitation, “Certainly not. With Tito I only object to his methods, I approve of his objectives: whereas with Franco, I disapprove of everything.”

These sympathizers are opposed to certain features of communism, but they believe that on the whole communism is a progressive movement. They believe it promotes better material conditions and well-being for the majority of the people of the world and that it is permissible to associate with them and work with them to advance specific causes. There may also be the somewhat naive hope that if the communists are shown a little tolerance and understanding, they will gradually jettison their extreme characteristics of deception, brutality and dictatorship and become a benign movement worthy of wholehearted support. The sympathizers will cooperate with the communists in a limited area for a specific objective.

The fourth group is the group of the pseudo-liberals. These are individuals who profess to be very idealistic and are often somewhat impractical. They tend to govern their lives in terms of pure theory. Frequently they’re to be found in universities, theological seminaries, and associations of attorneys. They take the attitude that they disapprove of communism and they will not support it. However, they say, “I refuse to become like my enemy in order to oppose him and while I disagree with what the communists say, I will fight for their right to say it. While I disagree with communist organization, I will fight for their right to organize..”

These individuals frequently claim that there is an absolute freedom of speech, that anyone can say whatever he wishes without penalty. They claim no one is legally guilty until he takes steps to put the advocated programs into operation. They regard the use of the fifth amendment; the statement under oath that the individual refuses to answer a certain question because a truthful answer might incriminate him; as carrying no indication of guilt whatsoever. They believe that they are very liberal and stand for all that is best in the organization of society.

They commit certain fallacies of which they are unaware. One of these fallacies is the assumption that provisions which are totally legitimate to prevent legal punishment extend into other areas of social organization and privilege. The fifth amendment is designed to prevent an individual from incriminating himself so that he may be punished by law. It does not carry with it a protection against the logical consequences of stating that a truthful answer might be incriminating. Since many positions in society require higher standards than those required to keep out of prison, the use of the fifth amendment may discredit them and disqualify them for these positions of privilege though it certainly cannot result in their being imprisoned under the 1aw The fifth group consists of people who are simply duped. They are patriotic, well-meaning citizens and they can be recruited to a worthy cause.

The relationship of these individuals to each other within a communist front may be understood if we draw a series of concentric circles. At the center there is the small circle, the Communist Party. A larger circle around that gives the zone of the fellow-traveler. Another larger circle gives the zone of the sympathizer; another larger circle — the zone of the pseudo-liberal; and finally a larger circle embracing the zone of the dupe.

If from the center we draw two lines at an angle, we get a segment of the circle which may be conceived as the communist front. At the center are the dedicated communist organizers, and at the periphery the good patriotic dupes, while in between we have the fellow-travelers, sympathizers, and pseudo-liberals. We have the worthy announced objective and the hidden communist objective. Communist science is in operation.

HUMAN NATURE--THE REEF ON WHICH COMMUNISM IS FOUNDERING

Communism began in the state of rosy optimism, convinced that it could solve the problem of human nature. As the years have progressed, this optimism has faded, and the communists have found that human nature is a far more formidable foe than they originally thought.

It all sounded so simple when Karl Marx stated it: Human nature was formed in the mold of the environment; capitalism created an environment of selfishness and greed so the qualities of selfishness and greed were formed in human nature; socialism would create an environment of service and cooperation so all that was needed to change human nature was to replace the capitalist mold by the socialist mold. In one generation selfishness and greed would be eliminated from human nature and the new socialist man would emerge. This new man would be devoid of selfishness and would work industriously and efficiently to create abundance for all. The problems of crime, juvenile delinquency, racial prejudice and corruption would disappear. The government would wither and die and the golden age of communism would be ushered in with the birth of the classless society.

It has not worked out the way Karl Marx prophesied and the communists believed. The sinfulness of human nature is the reef upon which the grandiose plans of communism are foundering. Selfishness and greed, juvenile delinquency and crime remain after 50 years of socialism in the Soviet Union. Frantic experimentation is now taking place in an attempt to cope with the realities of human nature. The cultural revolution in China is essentially a frenzied and futile attempt to eliminate self interest from human nature. Everyday it becomes clearer that communism is founded upon a delusion. Human nature is not perfected by environmental change!

Christians are well aware of the sinfulness of human nature and the problems this presents. St. Paul cries out almost in despair:

“For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” Romans 7:19 and 24.

The promise of the Christian faith is that sinful human nature can be transformed through the power and presence of the indwelling Christ. St. Paul also proclaimed:
“I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” Galatians 2:20

In opposition to the brutal materialism of communism, we present the transcendent power of the living Christ. The opportunities are great. Youth, gripped by futility and despair is crying out for help in finding the meaning and message of life.

Help us to help them. Give us your prayerful, moral, and material support. An investment in regenerating lives is the most profitable that can be made.

With Christian love,

Fred Schwarz
President
Christian Anti Communism Crusade