Love: Communist Style
by Dr. Fred C. Schwarz

      We can trust the Communists to manifest pure, Marxist-Leninist "love."  One of the best pictures of Marxist-Leninist "love" was revealed in the boast made by Klementi Voroshilov, [then] president of Russia, to William C. Bullitt, America's first ambassador to the Soviet Union.  At a banquet in Russia in 1934, Voroshilov told Bullitt that in 1919 he persuaded eleven thousand Czarist officers at Kiev to surrender by promising them that, if they surrendered, they, their wives and their families would be permitted to return to their homes.  When they surrendered, he executed the eleven thousand officers and all male children, and sent the wives and daughters into the brothels for the use of the Russian army.  He mentioned in passing that the treatment they received in the brothels was such that none of them lived for more than three months.
      Voroshilov was merely acting in obedience to the dictates of Marxist-Leninist "love."  Believing as he believed, he acted in a truthful, righteous, and loving manner.  There he stood, one of history's anointed, entrusted with the destiny of world conquest and human regeneration.  There stood a group of male and female animals which he could utilize selfishly by keeping his promise to them and making himself feel good in the bourgeois sense, or which he could utilize for the ultimate regeneration and happiness of all mankind by destroying them.  His duty lay clearly before him.  As a Communist he had no choice.  He was nothing; these people were nothing; the will of history was everything.  He saw his duty clear.  To the executioners went all the males, and to the brothels went all the females.  The Red Army was strengthened, world conquest came a day nearer, human regeneration a little closer, and Voroshilov had a conscience as clear as spring water, and a sense of duty nobly done.  He was comforted by an acute awareness of the fulfillment of Marxist/Leninist "love."
      Communists believe they have a destiny.  Their destiny is to create a new world and regenerate mankind.  To do this they must conquer the world, shatter the Capitalist system, and, by Communist dictatorship, establish the regenerative environment of Socialism.  This new environment will rear the young to perfection.
      An inescapable step of their scientific program for the regeneration of mankind is the elimination of the residual diseased social classes following world conquest.  A few years ago, the American Communist Party would openly acknowledge that, having conquered this country, they would need to put to death one third of the American people.  This is not punishment;  it  is  Social  Science.    It  is  not 

cruelty it is "love."  It is as though the surgeon took the scalpel in a loving fashion to cut away the gangrenous tissue so that the new and perfect might come to maturity.
      Communism is applied godless materialism.  St. Paul writes:
      "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful: but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.  Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.  Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever."
        -Romans 1:21-25
      Emerging from its lair of godless materialism, dressed in garments of science, Communism seduces the young and utilizes their perverted religious enthusiasm to conquer the world.  Building on the doctrines of godless materialism, Communism has completely reversed the meaning of our basic moral terms.  When we, in our ignorance of this fact, insist on interpreting their phraseology as if they believed the Christian philosophy from which we have derived our basic concepts, we aid and abet them in their program for our conquest and destruction.  Once it is known what the Communists believe, there is no difficulty in understanding, interpreting, and predicting their conduct.  On the foundation of knowledge, and on that foundation alone, may an edifice of survival be built.
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      The Pharisees, angry at Jesus’ criticism of them and jealous of the crowds that followed him, sent clever men out to question Jesus while he was speaking in the hope of tripping him up.  But he confounded them time and again, as when they asked him if it was lawful to pay taxes to the hated Romans, and he replied: “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, but give to God what is God’s.”  Or when they asked if a woman caught in adultery should be stoned to death, and Christ said: “Let the man among you who has no sin be the first to cast a stone at her.”
      But Christians throughout the world believe that Jesus was more than just a good and holy man; they believe that he was the Son of God, the Messiah promised in the Old Testament.  As evidence of their belief, Christians cite the fulfillment in Jesus of Old Testament prophecies regarding the place and circumstances of the Messiah’s birth, the betrayal and suffering he endured, and the manner of his death.
      But the most convincing evidence of Jesus’ claim to be God was the spectacular miracles he performed before hundreds and even thousands of eyewitnesses (“These very works which I perform testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me”).  He changed water into wine; cured the blind, deaf and lame; exorcised demons from people; fed thousands with only a few loaves of bread and fishes; and raised three people from the dead, including his friend Lazarus.
      The raising of Lazarus four days after he had died was the last straw as far as the chief priests and Pharisees were concerned. They wove a plot to kill Jesus, getting unexpected help from one of Christ’s own apostles, Judas, who was willing to betray his master for 30 pieces of silver.  Jesus was arrested late at night, put through the mockery of a trial, beaten and tortured, and then put to death on the orders of Pontius Pilate.
      The followers of Jesus thought they had seen the last of him when his body was taken down from the cross and placed in a borrowed grave outside Jerusalem nearly 2,000 years ago.  But, three days later, the tomb was found to be empty and more than a dozen people reported having seen Jesus alive that Sunday.  Over the next 40 days, Jesus was seen in different places at different times by small groups of people and by large groups, including a crowd of 500.  On the 40th day, according to reliable eyewitness accounts, he gave his apostles their final instructions, to carry his teachings “to the ends of the earth,” and then rose up into the heavens, not to return until the end of the world.
      Whatever attitude people hold toward Jesus Christ, whether they believe him to be God or not, there is no question that if his teachings were followed faithfully by everyone, the world would be a better and more peaceful place to live.
      The above summary of our Lord’s birth and life was written by James J. Drummey and first published in The Review of the News.

Cocaine Conduit
By Representatives Dan Burton & Benjamin Gilman

      There are new revelations about Cuba's complicity with Colombian drug traffickers.  On Dec. 3, 1998, 7.2 metric tons of cocaine were seized in Cartagena, Colombia.  Even Fidel Castro admits evidence proved it was destined for Cuba.  However, this is where Mr. Castro's 'spin' begins.
      Soon after the seizure by the Colombian National Police (CNP), Mr. Castro sent Cuban police to Colombia to tell a convoluted story without any supporting evidence.  Mr. Castro's police proclaimed this shipment was ultimately headed for Spain, because two Spaniards operated the company in Cuba to which this shipment was consigned.  Interestingly, the Cuban government's Ministry of Light Industry owns a majority interest in this company.
      In his January speech, Mr. Castro publicly accused the two Spaniards of being responsible for the cocaine smuggling operation and asserted the cocaine was bound for Spain.  After Mr. Castro's speech, the Spanish police arrested and detained the two Spaniards, who had returned to Spain after the Cuban investigation had begun.  However, when Cuba failed to provide the Spanish police with any evidence to support the accusations, the men were released.
      At a news conference to proclaim their innocence, the two Spaniards said, "In Cuba the government controls everything.  The Castro government has all the information on the houses, the families who live there, and the telephones.  Consequently, the president of Cuba is lying. . . . This is outrageous.  Everything is rooted in an unprecedented speech in which a head of state makes baseless charges."
      Spanish authorities confirm they have not received any evidence from Cuba to substantiate Mr. Castro's claims.
Ironically, a Cuban police investigation contradicts Mr. Castro's own spin.  Police documents claim the Cuban police searched the company's factory and containers onsite: "All tests of raw materials and finished products at the factory proved negative. . .an examination of the structures of the containers had similar results."  A second search of the factory and containers by drug-sniffing dogs also came up negative.  These Cuban police tests suggest cocaine was not handled at the factory - the one place where the Spaniards might have had access.
      It is far likelier that Mr. Castro is using the two Spaniards as scapegoats.  What else could Mr. Castro say once it was determined Cuba was the destination of 7.2 tons of Colombian cocaine?  It is foolish to believe two businessmen could dupe Mr. Castro's totalitarian government with all its social controls.
      Amazingly, the U.S. State Department, which is supportive of normalizing relations with Cuba, has accepted the Castro version of events.  In a letter to Congress, the

State Department claimed to have "evidence" the shipment was going to Spain.  The "evidence" ended up being uncorroborated claims by the Castro government.  The State Department may have forgotten it has been reported that federal prosecutors in Miami have held a draft indictment for drug trafficking against Fidel's brother, Raul Castro, since 1993.
      White House Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey claims Mr. Castro lacks the resources to respond to increased drug trafficking in Cuba's territorial waters and air space.  However, in 1996, Mr. Castro ordered his MiGs to shoot down two unarmed civilian aircraft in international air space, and in 1994 ordered his Navy to sink the tugboat "13 de Marzo" ("March 13") in international waters.  Clearly, if Mr. Castro wants to respond to drug traffickers, he can.  Ask the families of those two tragedies about Mr. Castro's resources.
      While the ultimate destination of the December drug shipment remains under investigation, it is becoming increasingly likely the cocaine was bound for the United

States, possibly via Mexico.  More than 60 percent of the hard drugs entering America transit through Mexico, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
      Unless credible evidence shows this shipment was headed elsewhere, common sense dictates it was bound for the United States.  Therefore, Cuba must be placed on the State Department's "major's list" of nations that transit substantial amounts of illicit narcotics to the United States.  We have again asked Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to do just that.
We will see if the State Department chooses to believe the facts of the case of the claims of Mr. Castro's regime.
      Rep. Dan Burton, Indiana Republican, is chairman of the Government Reform Committee, and is co-author of the Burton-Helms Embargo of Cuba.  Rep. Benjamin Gilman, New York Republican, is chairman of the International Relations Committee.
      The Washington Times, July 15, 1999, P. A16

Colombia's Red State
By Georgie Anne Geyer

      One hundred and fifty miles southwest of the Colombian capital of Bogota there lies another "country."  It is not registered in the United Nations, nor is it one of the nations of this hemisphere.  There are no customs controls or immigration posts, although there are Internet sites and e-mail addresses.
Yet this unknown "nation" is as large as Switzerland or the Netherlands and half as large as Texas.  Like some misbegotten orphan, it does not really have a name yet.  The muddy cattle-town "capital," surrounded by jungle and savanna, has traditionally been called San Vicente del Caguan, but that name does not express its present odd reality.  Some are now calling it 'Farclandia,' and thereby lies the tale.
      This swatch of land -- roughly 15,000 square miles of what used to be the republic of Colombia -- was actually given over by the government last fall to the Marxist guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC).  Indeed, the entire area is, in the parlance of this perhaps prophetic agreement, "demilitarized," which means that the Colombian military is nowhere to be seen.
      Thus, it has effectively become the "homeland" from 

which the guerrillas launch attacks on the formal Colombian state-- and then rush back to their protected enclave.
      If it all sounds breathtakingly strange, that's because it is.

      Behind this new reality are two developments crucial to Latin America and to the United States: (1) If FARC, which in the last eight years has also become the armed forces of the powerful Colombian drug mafias, takes power, Colombia could well become the first narco-ruled state in the world; (2) given such extraordinary possibilities, Colombia is already becoming the Latin American country for the next U.S. involvement.
      When I spoke here with Colombian Defense Minister Luis Fernando Ramirez last week, he assured me that the San Vicente area was "given unilaterally by the government"' to the guerrillas in order to facilitate the peace talks of President Andres Pastrana's peace initiative.  "It is part of the guerrilla mentality to want to demonstrate their military power in order to negotiate.  That is what happened the last few weeks when they attacked the cities, but the military forces responded very strongly, with 400 guerrillas killed."
      "And if peace talks don't work," he went on, "we can cancel the agreement anytime."
      The commander in chief of the Colombian armed forces, Gen. Fernando Tapias, added that there are about 18,000 Marxist guerrillas in all, against government and paramilitary troops 10 times that number.   "But  the  numbers  are  not 

expressive of the threat," he said.  "The threat lies principally in the money they receive annually from the drug trade.  Last year, it was $600 million.  We have the force, but we don't have the means to defeat them.  Right now, we have 12 helicopters, the police 40 to 50.  It is the money that gives the guerrillas the capacity to very rapidly recoup their losses.  There have been moments when they have had more resources than the public forces had."
      Columbia is a perplexing country.  It sits atop the northern edge of South America, with 40 million people, with a beautiful but feral countryside, and probably the most cultured and dedicated leadership class in Latin America.  But while the originally Cuban-trained Marxist guerrillas were defeated elsewhere after the fall of the Soviet Union, here they were saved by the Colombian drug trade, which supplies 80 percent of the United States' cocaine and heroin.
      When I was last in Colombia two years ago, the economy was still incongruously booming.  This winter, it began such a collapse that the government began including drugs in the national income.  Two years ago, specialists on the guerrilla movements in Bogota showed me how the guerrillas were still far outside of the big cities.  This spring, they attacked the cities.  Two years ago, the guerrillas were insisting they were fighting only for political position in the government.  Today, they say clearly they want to rule a socialist state in Colombia.
      Despite the pleading of the Colombian military for help, the United States has been unconscionably late in supporting the government forces.  Washington allowed itself to be tied up in pious arguments about the military's human rights record and so, until now, essentially gave Colombia nothing --and even decertified the country for aid until recently.
      Now, with every study showing clearly that there are virtually no human rights abuses by the military, and that 90 percent of the abuses are on the part of the guerrillas and the rightist paramilitaries, the United States finally is acting.  An initial grant of $300 million was given in 1998 to the military, and drug czar Barry McCaffrey was just in Bogota pleading with Washington for another $1 billion for the "serious and growing emergency in the region."
      Meanwhile, the peace talks that the United States insisted upon are on and off again, while Colombia edges closer and closer to mortal danger.  If that often admirable state should collapse, there will be plenty of blame to go around.  Washington must share in it for self-righteously insisting upon some perfect outcome in a situation where the stakes are so high and so abundantly clear.
      The Washington Times, July 31, 1999, P. A10

ANC and SACP
by Aida Parker
Part one of two parts

      Let's not overdo the optimism.  Most striking, yet least publicised, feature of President Thabo Mbeki's new Cabinet is the unexpectedly high-- at least 60% -- of serving and "former" members of the SA [South African] Communist Party, obviously heavily played down to avoid alarming foreign investors, the IMF and World Bank.  Though this is conjecture, the fact that the Cabinet now has a much more emphatic neo-Leninist image may explain some of the mystery behind Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi's failure to take up the Deputy Presidency.
      At the time Dr. Buthelezi, a dedicated Christian and anti-Communist--and the man Mrs. Thatcher always believed to be a most suitable Black leader for a liberated SA--joined Mr. Mandela's government of national unity, it was said he had done so in the hope that he could ultimately persuade Mr. Mbeki to break the hold of the Indian communist cabal on the ANC government.  Though two Indian Ministers--Mac Maharaj and Jay Naidoo--have gone, their departure is more than compensated for by the arrival of a committed, lifelong communist, Essop Pahad, in the powerful, newly-created post, Minister in the President's Office.
      Serving or "former" SACP members in the new Cabinet include: Jacob Zuma, Deputy President, once listed as a former SACP central committee member; Trevor Manuel, Finance; Alec Erwin, Trade & Industry; Kader Asmal, Education; Ronnie Kasrils, Water Affairs & Forestry; Steve Tshwete, Safety & Security; Valli Moosa, Environment & Tourism; Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, Public Service & Administration, currently deputy chairman, SACP; Membatisi ('Shepherd') Mdladlana, Labour; Deputy Minister Aziz and his brother, Essop Pahad.
Little is known about the early history of Dr. Nkosazana Zuma, now heading the Foreign Affairs portfolio, but senior ANC members tell me she is the daughter of the late Stephen Dhlamini, a former militant Natal trade unionist and communist.  Though this is not reflected in her biography, it is also said that she went to school in Cuba and retains strong links with the Castro regime.
      Also listed here must be Mrs. Frene Ginwala, Speaker of the House, said to be one of the SACP's major theoreticians, an issue she shies from discussing.  Some in the ANC refer to her (behind her back) as "Stalin's grandmother."
      Here it is important to point out that those who believe Mr. Mbeki, with his tweed jackets and Sherlock Holmes pipe,

will rule as a Black Englishman are comically absurd in such an assumption.  The ANC, with its muscular SACP/COSATU alliance partners, is not in any way comparable to a Western-type political party.  It is an all-embracing alliance, a "broad church" incorporating all manner of political bed fellows, often with widely divergent agendas.
      All this comes in sharp contrast to the "moderate" image put out by the ANC spindoctors.  The great sleeping issues in this post-election period are: Has the SACP indeed regained its old dominance over the ANC?  And where does Mbeki, who talks the language of democracy though sometimes in somewhat muffled fashion, stand in all this?
Adjective most frequently applied to this new President is "enigmatic."  Outwardly urbane, professorial, extremely reserved, little is really known about his personal life.  Just weeks before the election the Johannesburg Sunday Times rushed into print with an in-depth, six-part biographical serial written by leftist correspondent Mark Gevisser.  In another biography, while Sussex University's Socialist Society gets honourable mention, there is virutally no mention of the SACP, least of all of Mbeki's former membership of its Central Committee.  The fudging of this data may be deliberate.
      Mbeki completed his Master's degree in Economics at Sussex University, a long-standing bastion of far-left politics.  During this period he was active in mobilising student support against the old SA government, and worked in a number of Soviet front groups, including the World Assembly of Youth, the World Federation of Democratic Youth and the International Union of Students.  After leaving university, he worked for the ANC in its London office between 1967 and 1971.  SACP chairman, the late Yusuf Dadoo, was among the major political figures to influence his thinking at the time.
Between 1969 and 1971 he studied at the Soviet Institute of Social Science and at the Lumumba University in Moscow as a "guerilla regimental chief of staff."  After his return to SA in 1990 it was claimed that Thabo had quietly distanced himself from the SACP.  Whether he actually resigned cannot be confirmed.  But his father, Goven Mbeki, himself a lifetime communist, has remarked that Thabo was so steeped in communism that some influence must remain.  Daddy should know.
      Man to watch here is Essop Pahad, who headed Mbeki's office during his Deputy Presidency and was in effect in charge of domestic policy.  Business Day pulled no punches.  It described Pahad as "a partly reconstructed Stalinist who sees himself as his master's political bodyguard."
      Even that does not do him full justice, however.  Born in Johannesburg, 21.6.39, he was raised as a communist.  His parents were deeply involved in political activism, his mother being  jailed  twice  during the 1946 Passive Resistance

Campaign and the 1952 Defiance Campaign.  He obtained his BA at Wits in 1963, his MA in 1966 and PhD in 1971.
      A longtime member of the SACP Central Committee, Pahad worked from 1965 to 1971 as an editorial adviser on the Prague-based, now defunct World Marxist Review, a journal which in its time influenced communist intellectuals throughout the world.  After 1975 he returned to Britain and was attached to the SACP's International Department, which networked with other communist parties and organisations closely aligned to the SACP/ANC.  In 1989 he was elected to the SACP's Central Committee at the party's seventh congress held in Havana.
In 1990 he returned to SA, was re-elected to the SACP Central Committee in December 1991 and was appointed to the SACP's International Department in charge of foreign relations.  He represented the SACP at the World Trade Centre talks.  Around this time he went on a fund-raising trip to Beijing.  Pahad is described as a Marxist theoritician.
      Arrogant, often uncouth, undoubtedly clever, he is not particularly popular with Black nationalists in the ANC, who refer to him as 'Mbeki's Rottweiler.'  His links with the new president go far back.  Both went into exile around the same time, both studied at Sussex University.  Many regard him as the hidden hand behind many of Mbeki's decisions; or even the de facto dictator of the 'New SA."
      He is married to an Englishwoman, Meg, a teacher and a fellow communist.  As a Muslim, he is known to be in trouble with his community both because of his marriage and his communist affiliations.
      Mbeki has really run the country for the past five years.  During that period his economic policies have on the whole been prudent.  GEAR, the growth and economic recovery blueprint he masterminded, won high praise from business and the IMF.  He talked about shrinking budget deficits, an open economy, reformed labour legislation. . . music to the ears of Big Business.
      But that was then.  Because of the "overwhelming mandate" delivered to the ANC, largely from the poor, illiterate and dispossessed, all that may now change.  Chances are that because of the political debt he owes this impoverished constituency, with its huge, unmet expectations of services, a rougher, more precarious, phase is about to hit SA.
      As things stand now, one certainly cannot see Mr. Mbeki accepting the advice proffered by the British Economist: that many of SA's problems could be solved if Whites became even richer, because that would make them more secure, keep them in the country, more ready to cooperate with Blacks.

Watch for Part 2 of Aida Parker's article next month.

q "Despite controversy over the 'debt' issue, the U.S. continues to pay about one-third of all U.N. costs, amounting to billions of dollars a year.  This has enabled the U.N. to accumulate a $15 billion pension fund for the benefit of its own employees, who are not even required to meet a basic code of conduct.  On average, U.N. employees get 15 percent higher salaries than U.S. Government employees.  Former U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, exposed as a Nazi war criminal, continues to draw a $102,000 U.N. pension.  Dubious U.N. projects include producing energy from pig manure and an 'Environmental Sabbath' campaign that replaces God with the earth.  Financial corruption and mismanagement are so pervasive at the world body that an American U.N. employee, Linda Shenwick, was fired by the Clinton Administration for telling Congress about it.  The administration hopes to conceal the full truth from the American people.
"At its core, the U.N. is anti-American.  The main U.N. body, the Security Council, is manipulated by Russia and China, who have veto power, to the detriment of American interests.  The Iraq danger demonstrates this continuing problem.  The other main U.N. body, the General Assembly, is comprised of 188 nations, some of them with populations in the mere thousands.  Many U.N. member-states hate the U.S. and what it stands for but they love our money.  The U.N. even meddles in internal U.S. affairs by threatening to give Hawaii and Puerto Rico status as independent nations.  U.N. diplomats give dictators like Fidel Castro standing ovations and resist criticizing Castro's human rights record."
Cliff Kincaid, The United Nations Today, P. 3

in a three-week crackdown on the China Democracy Party.  His sentencing to prison--a virtual certainty in political trials--would deprive the party of a potent organizer.
"Mr. Jiang's remarks and the clampdown on dissent countered the more moderate tone Chinese leaders have tried to set as they courted the United States and other governments.  China had won praise for signing U.N. rights treaties and edging its legal system toward international standards."
Charles Hutzler, The Washington Times, December 19, 1998, P. A14

q "Beijing does not practice free trade; it conducts 'strategic trade' to strengthen itself for the coming clash.  In China there is no distinction between the private and the state.  Thousands of Chinese companies -- from hotels to toy factories-- are run by the People's Liberation Army.  The PLA exploits its unrestricted access to the huge U.S. market to earn hard currency for the aggrandizement of state power.  China's civilian sector buys what strategic interests dictate, like those 46 supercomputers recently sold by the United States, the precise whereabouts of which we cannot confirm.
"U.S. companies are lured into China by offers of access to the "world's greatest market" and a low-wage labor force.  Once there, the U.S. firms find that access to China's consumers is restricted and the hidden price of low -wage Chinese labor is mandatory transfer of technology to Chinese "partners," who copy the American machines and begin replicating our factories."
Patrick Buchanan, The Washington Times, May 27, 1998, P. A 15

q " When I talk about the Christian Coalition, I'm not talking about all of the members of the Christian Coalition.  I am a Christian.  I am talking about the leadership that sets the agenda, creates the message and builds these very sophisticated campaigns. . . .
" I'm talking about the leadership.  I'm not talking about the people who hear a message that sounds good and go along.  They don't care about children that don't look like them.  They don't care about children that are not white, middle-class Christians.  As far as they're concerned, others can be eliminated."
Jane Fonda, The Washington Times, June 25, 1998; A 2