No philosophical or political movement can be judged by the word it chooses for a name.  Surely this is obvious to every rational person.  One political party contesting for local and federal offices at the recent election was the “peace and freedom” party.  Does the choice of the name guarantee that the personnel and policies would promote true peace and freedom?

            It is possible to argue for the virtue of cancer as some people argue for the virtue of communism.  Such an argument would go like this: Cancer is tissue growing.  Tissue growth is the essence of life.  Through tissue growth, the fertilized ovum becomes the embryo, the embryo becomes the baby, the baby becomes the child, and the child becomes the mature adult.  Without growth, life would cease.  Since cancer is growth, it is in tune with life.

            Such an argument would be immediately recognized for what it is—lunacy.  Statements, such as that by Miss Fonda, fall into the same category.

            To understand what communism really is, it is necessary to know certain facts of history; the doctrines of Marx and Lenin; the principles and practices of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao Tse-tung; and the morals methods, and objectives of the International Communist Movement.  The following brief review should prove helpful.

History

            The World Communist Movement began in 1903 when Lenin formed the Bolshevik fraction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party with about 17 members.  In 1917 Lenin and his party, which had grown to about 40,000 members, conquered Russia.  Since then Communist Parties have been formed in most countries of the world and have recruited a large membership.  There are now more than 100 major Communist Parties with a membership of about 50 million.

            Communist Parties have conquered and monopolized power in countries with a population of more than one billion.  The two largest countries are, of course, Russia and China.

            Communist conquest has invariably resulted in the destruction of the civil liberties of the population and the imposition of a brutal dictatorship.  This has been associated with the extermination of great numbers of people and a flood of pitiful refugees into surrounding countries wherever the remotest possibility of escape exists.  In the Soviet Union alone, at least 35 million were exterminated by the communist dictatorship.  Communist rule has been associated with monopoly, militarism, agricultural failure, and economic retardation.  These characteristics of communism continue to the present day.

            It is generally acknowledged that Yugoslavia has the most humane communist regime in existence.  Yugoslavia has received many billions of dollars in subsidy from the United States.  The plight of the Yugoslavs is described in an article in the Economist of London which is reprinted in Atlas magazine of December, 1970:

            “Yugoslavs leave the nest

            “A million Yugoslavs—one in 20 of the population—will be earning their living abroad by the beginning of next year if emigration to the West continues at the present rate.  Almost certainly it will.  There are 400,000 unemployed people in Yugoslavia at the moment, many of whom are departing daily to work in West Germany, France, Austria and other Western countries suffering from a labor shortage.

            “Despite the contribution which these expatriate workers make to the Yugoslav economy—and indirectly, to industrial peace in the country—there is growing concern in Yugoslavia about the whole issue.  The main trouble is that, unlike other southern Europeans, the emigrating Yugoslavs do not seem to be anxious to come back.  Many are settling down in Western Europe or moving farther on to Australia, Canada and the U.S.  According to Belgrade’s Politicka, only about a fifth of the Yugoslavs known to have emigrated to the West between 1964 and 1970 have gone home compared with 88 percent of the Italians and 64 percent of the Spaniards.

            “The worst loss of all is that of university graduates, among whom emigration has been particularly heavy for a number of years.  It is reckoned that almost 50 percent of recent emigrants have been skilled men.”  Pages 38 and 39.

            When this flight takes place from humane Yugoslavia, it gives some indication of what would happen if the inhabitants of other communist-ruled countries were not prevented from escaping by walls and machine guns.

The Doctrines of Marx and Lenin

            Communism claims to be the science of Marxism-Leninism.  It derives its doctrines and practices from Marx and Lenin.  Marx taught materialist philosophy which denies God and the Ten Commandments and substitutes the economic system of production as the creator of the individual society.  He taught that the capitalist economic system of production created two classes within society—the working class and the business class—and ignited a truceless war between these two classes.  Marx taught that developments within the economic system made it certain that the working class or proletariat would win this war and establish dictatorial power so that it could destroy the residual class, the business class or bourgeoisie.  Thus dictatorship and class extermination are inherent in the teachings of Marx.

            Lenin extended the teaching of Marx and developed the idea of imperialism which teaches that America is a murderous thief rich with ill-gotten gains robbed from the poor and wretched of the underdeveloped countries.  This idea has been extended to teach that America is largely responsible for the poverty and wretchedness of most people.

            Lenin designed and created the organized Communist Party as the instrument for seizing power and establishing dictatorial rule allegedly on behalf of the proletariat.

            Stalin polished and refined dictatorial power over the Russian people and also over the members of the Communist Party itself.  He used this Leninist machine to indulge his insane lusts and tortured and exterminated millions including all the leading communists of Russia.  The climax of his career came when he entered a pact with Hitler to attack Poland and unleashed on the world the horror of the Second World War.

            Despite this record of infamy, communists within the United States and throughout the world retain a dedication to conquer the entire world in the name of Marx and Lenin so that everyone may experience the horror of communist dictatorship.

            The record show that communism has been a great success in establishing dictatorship and keeping oppressed citizens under strict control.  It has also been successful in creating enormous military power.  In every area related to human happiness, it has been a dismal failure.

            To Jane Fonda I say, “If you understood what communism is, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that the efforts of the communists in the U.S.A. will be defeated and that the slaves of communism throughout the world will one day be freed.”

CASTRO ON COMMUNISM

            The Castro of the title is not Fidel but his sister Juanita.  She delivered a speech before the World Anti-Communist League and Asian People’s Anti-Communist League which was held in Tokyo, Kyoto, Japan, September, 15-20, 1970.

            The information in this speech is most significant since Cuba receives unstinting praise from most of the activists of the New Left.  Extracts from her speech are as follows:

            “Other consequences of the Communist regime endured by Cuba are these:

            “The Cuban people lost their freedom, their independence and their sovereignty; the Cuban people lost the right to freely elect their government; the Cuban people lost their right to practice the religion of their choice the Cuban people lost the right to better themselves and to raise their standard of living. . . the Cuban people lost their peace and happiness; the Cuban people are enslaved by international Communism and State totalitarianism.

            “From all this we can learn a dramatic lesson: The Marxist-Leninist system, State Communism, will never be able to raise a country’s standard of living or solve its problems.  All it can hope to do is to make them worse.  Under the politico-economic system, wealthy people are made poor, and the poor, destitute.

            “Every factory belongs to the Communist State; every business belongs to the Communist State; every parcel of Cuban soil belongs to the Communist State; every material object belongs to the Communist State and the State can dispose of it as it wishes.

            “All human beings also belong to the Communist State that disposes of them cruelly, as if they were so many beasts of burden.

            “It is not an exaggeration to affirm that under the Marxist-Leninist Communist system EVERYTHING. . . ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. . . belongs to the insatiable Communist State.

            “The ‘liberals’ and the ‘leftists’ who join the Communists in their struggle for power are swept away, jailed or executed, as soon as the Communists control the government of a country.

            “The Communists, as soon as they reach power, devour those who were their allies only yesterday.

            “The Communists have no peace among themselves, and much less where their circumstantial allies, as they call the ‘liberals’ and ‘leftists’ are concerned.

            “The Communists eliminate and kill each other.  They constituted a voracious plague that first attack circumstantial allies, and later, turns to destroy its own ranks.

            “The Cuban people know now that the Communists are not patriots, that they are not nationalists, that they are not heroes, that they are not anti-imperialists, that they are not honest.

            “The Cuban people know the Communists are the agents of the most inhuman and cruel imperialism ever known to mankind.

            “The Communists are traitors to their homelands.

            “The Communists are fanatic followers of an ideology that rejects and proscribes every noble human feeling.

            “The Communists want to enslave Mankind by imposing Marxism-Leninism, a system that is nothing more than a totalitarian dictatorship that sustains itself in power by means of military force, terror, repression, and mass murder.

            “Fidel will never be satisfied with merely being the dictator of Cuba.  He hopes to dominate every country in the Americas.  His ambition is ridiculous; it knows no bounds.  To satisfy hi ambition he is capable of using, indiscriminately, an armament given to him by Communist Imperialism, which in turn, uses him as a tool of its subversionist and interventionist policy.

            “Before Cuba fell prey to Communist Imperialism, the Cuban people, who were not and are not Communists, did not have the experience necessary to understand what those intellectuals, politicians, student and labor leaders who followed Communist ideology were capable of doing.  They masqueraded, as they do everywhere, as defenders of freedom, democracy and peace.

            “This was our first mistake.  We neither studied nor observed what the Communists had been doing since they took over the first country.  We forgot their history of treason.  And so, we were deceived.

            “Those Communists who demand ‘freedom,’ tomorrow will refuse us that freedom.

            “Those Communists who demand respect for human life, tomorrow will be firing at us when we stand before the ‘wall.’  Those Communists who are allowed to use the law for protection, tomorrow will destroy that very same law, so that we are deprived of its protection.

            “Nowadays in Cuba every worker and peasant is Fidel’s slave.

            “I have seen how families, who made their fortune by means of honest, productive work, or inherited it legally, were disposed.  Those families were not anti-Communists.  They didn’t even know what Communism was.  However, they were on the Communists’ black list; they were considered enemies, and thus, deprived of their properties.

            “Now, they have no means of support.  Many have committed suicide.  Others are dying slowly, consuming the meager food rations allowed them by the regime.

            “I have seen parents lose their children to the Marxist-Leninist indoctrination system that trains children and young people in fanatical obedience to the Communist Party, to the extent that they denounce their own parents as ‘counter-revolutionaries.’

            “I have seen parents and children jailed in inhuman political prisons and in concentration or hard labor camps, and I have heard personal witness accounts of thousands of executions before the ‘wall.’  The WACL Bulletin, November 1, 1970, Pages 42-44.

(N.B.  Juanita Castro will speak at the Orange County Antisubversive Seminar in the Inn of Tomorrow, adjacent to Disneyland, 1100-1110 West Katella Avenue, Anaheim, California, on Friday, February the 12^th, at 7:00 p.m.)

A CATHOLIC BISHOP PROMOTES COMMUNISM AND VIOLENCE

            The incredible story of how a Catholic Bishop incorporated the teaching of Mao Tsetung into a mass is reported in the Guardian of November 21, 1970:

            “The most Rev. Antulio Parrilla Bonilla, a Roman Catholic bishop from Puerto Rico, held a mass last week for two of the slain prisoners which combined church doctrine with the teachings of Mao Tsetung.

            “The mass was held in the Church of the People in the Barrio district of New York City’s East Harlem.  The church was formerly a Spanish Methodist Church until it was occupied last month by members of the Young Lords party for use as a legal defense and community center.

            “During the mass, the bishop read a passage from ‘On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party’ by Mao Tsetung on the importance of the liberation struggle to be both political and military before reading a passage from Isaiah on injustice and the oppression of the poor.

            “Bonilla told the people attending the mass that ‘two-thirds of humanity is oppressed by a white axis of nations.’

            “He also spoke later in the week at a meeting of the Movimiento Pro-Independencia (MPI), where he said that he had aligned himself with other Latin American priests who are committed to transforming the Roman Catholic church to fight in behalf of the poor and oppressed.  He said that although he is a pacifist, he recognized the legitimacy of other struggles and the necessity for some revolutionary groups to use violence to defend themselves.”  Page 4.

“THIS PURE, INNOCENT, CULTURED PROFESSOR OF PHILSOPHY”

            These words are used to describe Angela Davis in a letter published in the communist Daily World, December 2, 1970.  They are in tune with the communist campaign to present Angela Davis as a saintly character who could not possibly indulge in sordid deeds such as deliberately buying guns to be used in a holdup in a California courtroom.

            Every issue of the Daily World contains a major article on Angela Davis and her plight.  These articles depict her as black, young, attractive, intelligent, educated and a selfless and courageous fighter for the downtrodden and oppressed.  From this it follows that the charges against her must be part of a fascist-like, police frameup.  Once this vision is accepted, there is no need to consider evidence.  Angela is good; the forces against her are evil.

            This picture (not included on website, but picturing Angela Davis suspended on a cross and the hammer of prejudice pounding the nails of circumstantial evidence through her flesh into the cross) is sustained by statements from people all over the world as well as by poems and pictures.  One long poem published in the Daily World, November 24, 1970, contains these words:

            “Angela, do not lose your wonderful courage,

            For slowly, the people will wake, for slowly the steel jaws

            Of the fascist monster will be pried open

            And destroyed.

            Angela, in prison, you are our light,

            Burn proudly, for soon your splendid smile will find its way

            In a free and living America.”  Page 8

            Although the communists are atheists, they do not hesitate to exploit Christian sentiment by suggesting that the treatment of Angela is comparable to the crucifixion of Christ.  This is illustrated by the picture in the Daily World, November 21, 1970.

            It is essential to see the facts through the fog of sentimentality.  A judge and three black people are dead.  Prosecution charges that Angela Davis willfully set in motion the process that led to their deaths by purchasing the guns to be used to kidnap and possibly assassinate the judge and other peace officers.  Like any other citizen, Angela Davis should be tried with due process of law.

THE COMMUNISTS AND THE U.N. CONVENTION AGAINST GENOCIDE

            The communists and radicals are exceedingly anxious that the United States should ratify the treaty against genocide.  They are using the technique of the big lie and accusing the United States of practicing genocide.  The following article is taken from the Marxist Guardian of November 28, 1970:

“2000 at UN protest genocide

            “More than 2000 people marched through the streets of New York to the United Nations Nov. 21 in a protest against U.S. genocidal practices against nonwhite peoples at home and abroad.

            “The demonstration culminated a week of protests and street-corner rallies calling on the UN to intervene against U.S. practices in Vietnam and elsewhere and to call attention to the fact that the U.S. has not ratified the UN convention against genocide.

            “There was some possibility that the action would be conducted illegally when police and city officials refused to issue permits allowing the group to rally within sight of the UN building, but the permits were finally granted just prior to the march.

            “The march, organized by the National Coalition Against War, Racism and Repression, was spirited and militant, though relatively small.  Most of the demonstrators were young and a large proportion of the crowd was comprised of blacks and Puerto Ricans.  Two sound trucks moved along within the marchers’ ranks, one playing tapes of speeches by Martin Luther King while a group sang freedom songs from the other.  The marchers chanted, ‘We charge genocide,’ ‘Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh, NLF is gonna win,’ and ‘Free Angela, free Erica, stop the war against black America!’

            “The demonstration reached its maximum size as the marchers joined with those who had been waiting for their arrival across the street from the UN, and the speakers began their presentations.  First was Charlene Mitchell, a black Communist and organizer for the Committee to Free Angela Davis.  ‘Angela wants it to be known,’ she said, ‘that what is most important is to build a broad movement,  not only to free her, but to free Bobby Seale, to free the Panther 21, to free all political prisoners and to end the Vietnam war.’

            “Mitchell was followed by NCAWRR activist Sidney Peck, who pointed out that the UN was first formed out of the anti-fascist and anti-genocide sentiment following World War II but that, beginning with the atomic bombing of Japan up to the present, the U.S. had used the rhetoric of ‘protecting American lives’ to justify and cover up genocidal practices.

            “One of the most militant speakers was a woman from the Young Lords Party: ‘Whatever the UN was before,’ she said, ‘since we’re Puerto Ricans and they won’t even recognize that we’re a colony, today they’re nothing but a farce.’  ‘We also know something about genocide,’ she added, ‘since one-third of the women in Puerto Rico have been sterilized.’  She ended by calling on people to arm themselves in self-defense.

            “A featured speaker was William Patterson, a black Communist party leader and author of the ‘We Charge Genocide’ document on the oppression of black people in the U.S., first presented to the UN in 1951.  Patterson argued that imperialism could be defeated by the people is everyone united against is and pointed to the recent UN vote on China as a setback for the U.S. within that body.  He ended calling for ‘All Power to the Working Class!”

            “Other speakers included representatives of the National Welfare Rights Organization and the Seattle Conspiracy.  Neither Black Panther party leader Huey Newton nor Young Lords chairman Pablo Guzman were seen at the meeting, though both had been advertised as speakers.  An organizer said ‘security reasons’ prevented them from attending.

            “At one point in the rally a group of about 50 activists, mostly pacifists, engaged in a traditional exercise of nonviolent civil disobedience.  The intention was to enter the UN’s General Assembly and raise the genocide question themselves.  Since the UN was closed to visitors, however, police set up barricades and declared that anyone crossing them would be arrested on the spot.  The group proceeded anyway and were quickly ushered into waiting paddy wagons with only passive resistance.  Some 26 were finally arrested.”