Look at Communism, A (1955)

Dreadful forces on Earth International communism it is more than 100 years old only in the last 20 years has Communism become an important factor in the thinking and planning of the American public today International communism is a focal point in America's plans for the future it is the great question mark in our happiness and economic well-being but communism does and America's reaction to it today holds the fate of not only you and me but of all mankind the word communism before Carl Marx began to make use of an economic term not a political one Websters collegii addiction communism as any system of social organization in which goods are held in common thus pure communism is a mode of living employed by a group of people and principle of private ownership of property as we dramatized in the first session of this series our Founders at Jamestown and Plymouth Colony live for a short period in a communal or communistic mood banded together like one big family everyone worked for the group and the produce went into a common Storehouse to be do out in equal shares quickly found that this mode of living would not work without the forfeiting of individual Freedom private ownership and self-reliance the communistic experiments at Jamestown and Plymouth Colony were the pure Farm only as a magnet to draw its victims into quite a different system but let's go back to this Earthbound religion for Millions following under the banner of Marx and later that of lenen and Stalin the Communists have always clearly identified their Miz as capitalism and Christianity as long as capitalism and socialism we cannot live in one or the other will trial a funeral durge will be sung over the Soviet Republic or a world capitalism all the militant spirit that communism has whipped up since Lenin and his revolutionaries overthrew the Russian government in 1917 has been motivated and continues to be motivated by the primary aim of destroying All Nations living in a capitalistic system Communists are taught to hate the economic concept of individualism or self-reliance and the Christian concept of a spirit spiritual God ruling over the universe but Marx also taught that communism cannot directly replace capitalism but must work for the establishment of socialism as the key step toward communism Mark stated it categorically lennin repeated it so did Stalin in the M when we establish socialism we have already achieved the first phase of Communism the final stage of communism as envisioned by markx would be a Utopia with no government no laws the people would be banded together in associations and the economic rule to which all would voluntarily subscribe would be as Marx wrote from each according to his ability to each according to his need Russia after 40 Years of socialism is even farther away from this communistic goal than in 1917 in fact the state or government instead of withering away has become stronger and stronger the citizen has less and less Freedom let's pause and analyze our lesson to this point socialism as we have noted is the economic system under which Communism intended historically to operate in its first phase John could you give us a definition of socialism the ownership and oper communism's economic system is socialism in communist Russia and in every other communist the government operates the facilities for production and distribution ISM in practice utilizes the socialistic economic system doing some research on this topic can you give us the major ele well communism has three key elements they are dialectical mat economic determinism and Atheism very good now let's take them one at a time masses individual man is insignificant the individual must be subordinated to Collective man this then is the manner in which dialectical materialism views man the con change theory of dialectical when applied to society as destroyed through a revolution of the wage earners and in its place with marks his followers learned that in most Nations especially in modern times the workers could not be incited to revolt so they have plotted and in many instances achieve the destruction of capitalism through Evolution a bit by by bit infiltration with first the establishment of socialism England France Italy are all good examples the present socialism of these countries was inspired by Marx and Communists have been in the Vanguard of the developments this has been the pattern throughout Europe and England it is the pattern the Communists have blueprinted for America thus does marxian theory give way to marxian realism the Red Army and the Communist fifth columns are the instruments which International communism is using to bolster the fraudulent theory of dialectical materialism the fifth column subvert and weaken the strong the army takes over the weak Nations the second element in the philosophy of Communism is economic determinism Jane can you give us a brief statement of that theory their Theory holds that the development of society is determined by material factors particularly economic conditions the personality of an individual so the Communist say is created by environment especially the economic system in which he lives yes they say that heredity is a negligible Factor almost everything is governed and molded by the economic system no individual is responsible for his own words thoughts character or actions all this say the the economic environment in which man lives they hold that capitalism brings out the worst in men and that for the sake of the whole society capitalism must give way to a collectivistic system in which the individual's personality can be reshaped in the Communist mold and then the last of the three basic elements of Communism when we go to the very core of communist philosophy we find atheism their adoption of dialectical materialism was just another way of rejecting God religion the Communists say performs two functions first the ruling class uses it to keep the people contended with a lot second the exploitation of capitalism having dispensed with God the Communists subordinate morality to the interest of their war on capitalism whatever the struggle requires is good they say whether it be mass murder torture human slavery or any of the other hideous crimes that now have been convincingly proved against the Communist in this drawing on the front and the soviet's 5-year plan represented by the v in this communist drawing Workman are shown dumping religion from a wheelbarrow while another Workman breaks up a church bill we should now have a better understanding of the three basic elements in communism dialectical materialism economic determinism and Atheism before we leave the subject let us measure the strength of international communism on an October day in 1917 World communism could count only 40,000 dedicated adherence these are hard-bitten revolutionaries who under Lenin's leadership seiz control of the government of Russia this was a generation Ago by 194 slave 200 by 1955 they held in slavery nearly 900 million people and that's about 40% of the population of the earth a special Committee of the United States Senate has reported that there are 5 million highly trained Communists working secretly as Fifth columnists and the 60 Nations outside the Iron Curtain many thousand are life wielding great influence affecting the thinking and the actions of loyal Americans writing in the American Magazine Jay Edgar Hoover director of the FBI said from coast to coast hard core Reds continue to use every available technique Roost and artifice to capture the minds and control the behavior of loyal Americans and in a limit number of cases they are successful in doing so I am hopeful that after this exposition of Communism each of you will agree that it is in the interest of Christianity and even your self-preservation that we know this evil force bet on world domination and dedicate ourselves to resisting its growth next week we shall examine our own system capitalism but for now class dismissed the American Adventure series is a production of the national education program Cersei Arkansas Dr George ason director Dr Clinton alus Jr was our instructor this is a continuing series based on the unique political and economic system which has made America great watch for the next presentation of the American [Music] Adventure