More Deadly Than War: The Communist Revolution in America (Reel 1) (sound)

[Music] ladies and gentlemen again let me say Welcome to our home and thank you for taking the time to be here I'm well aware that whether you're here in person or through the medium of motion picture that for most most of you it's not easy to fit meetings of this kind into your schedules but the fact that you are here indicates that you do have an interest in the subject and that means there's a tremendous obligation on my part to develop that subject with the kind of usable information that will make it worth your while so in order not to waste any of your time let's dispense with the usual preliminaries and get right down to the business at hand the title of this presentation is more deadly than War but the subject matter itself is Revolution we're going to examine in quite a bit of detail the Communist theory and practice of Revolution particularly as applied to the United States now this will not be something dreamed up out of thin air this will be the strategy as taught by them and advocated by them in their own manuals in their textbooks and in their schools now the organization of this material will lead to three rather startling conclusions the first is that the Communist program for revolution in America is divided into two phases violent and nonviolent the second conclusion is that the strategy for violent revolution calls for chaos Anarchy Mass confusion and panic among the people a crisis in government and then out of the vacuum the sudden seizure of Power by communist-led Guerilla bands the third conclusion is that the nonviolent phase of Revolution actually is more important to the Communists and more potentially dangerous to us now the strategy for this phase calls for the gradual transition of our government into a Communist Regime done peacefully and legally but under the banner of socialism this then is the outline of the material that lies ahead so let's start right at the beginning with conclusion number one which is that the Communist program for revolution in America is divided into two phases violent and nonviolent now a good place to begin is with this communist booklet entitled on the nature of Revolution the Marxist theory of social change it was written by Herbert aper one of the leading theoreticians of the Communist Party in this country and on page 11 aper says the equating of violence with the nature of and process of revolution is not correct violence may or may not appear in such a process and its presence or absence is not a determining feature of the definition now this comes as quite a surprise to many of us because for years we've been used to thinking of communist revolutions only as those which involve the overthrow of governments by force and violence that entire phrase has been written and spoken so often as a single concept that many of us haven't even considered the possib ility that the Communists might have another approach to their goal that they might overthrow the government without force and violence that they might in fact plan to come to power through means that properly could be called peace and politics now in order to go any further it'll be necessary for us to define a few terms when the Communists speak of the two kinds of Revolution they don't come right out and say so in plain English of course not you see they claim to be practicing something called scientific Marxism and so they have to dress up these crude Concepts in elaborate phraseology for instance when the Communists speak of violent revolution they describe it as a war of National Liberation now the so-called theory behind this is that the people of the country marked for takeover supposedly are an oppressed people they're dominated by an imperialistic foreign power that has colonized them and exploited them and so the Communist claim that it's their Duty their historic duty to liberate them from the Yoke of fascism or imperialism or colonialism or whatever now naturally the Communist orientation of the movement is played down they prefer to identify themselves usually as a People's Army of Liberation or a National Liberation Front Of course this is the kind of Guerilla Warfare we've seen used in China Algeria Cuba South Vietnam and many other places around the world but there are other phrases also used to describe the same process occasionally they'll refer to this violent type of Revolution as an Anti-Imperialist war or an anti-colonialist War but they all equal the same thing Wars of National Liberation Anti-Imperialist Wars and anti-colonialist Wars are all phrases used to describe that aspect of Communist Revolution aimed at overthrowing the government by means of force and violence to describe their nonviolent Revolution the Communists most often use the term proletarian Revolution but they also refer to it as the Socialist Revolution and sometimes as the anti-monopoly struggle but here again they all add up to the same thing the proletarian Revolution the Socialist Revolution and the anti-monopoly struggle are all merely different ways in which the Communist describe their strategy for overthrowing the government through nonviolent means well all right having defined some of the key phrases we can return now to the Communist literature and be able to understand what they mean when they use these words now in 1960 the representatives from communist parties all over the world gathered in Moscow and issued a joint declaration which included this statement our time whose main content is the trans I of capitalism to socialism is a time of socialist revolutions and National Liberation Revolutions in other words simply stated we're living in an era of two kinds of Revolution one violent and the other nonviolent now here's a document published by the Communist Party in this country in 1968 it's entitled the new program of the Communist Party USA second draft and on this subject here's what it says contemporary revolutions bear two distinctive marks they are socialist they are Anti-Imperialist more than a billion human beings are now embarked on socialist Revolution a larger number is in varying stages of Revolution for National Liberation well in order to relate this General concept of two kinds of Revolution to the specific application here in the United States it'll be necessary for us to examine rather closely the Communist position on what they describe as the Negro question now basically summarized the Communist position on the Negro question is as follows as early as 1928 the Communist declared that the racial differences among our people constituted the weakest and most vulnerable point in our social fabric by constantly probing and straining at this one spot they calculated that that eventually the cloth could be torn apart and that Americans could be divided weakened and perhaps even set against each other in open combat they said in no unmistakable terms that the Negro people because of their secondary Social Status and their predominant workingclass composition offered greater revolutionary possibilities than any other cross-section of the population to develop these possibilities the Communist proclaimed that the American Negro constituted a separate nation within a nation a colony within the Continental borders of the United States the people of this nation were said to be oppressed and exploited by colonialist imperialist racist America consequently the Communist Party called for their Liberation their right to self-determination to break away from the United States and to set up their own Nation within our borders now to bring this about of course force and violence must be used a war of National Liberation must be fought the territory designated for this nation to be liberated was the black belt in the South those counties and states in which the negro population was dominant when established the new nation was to have a Soviet type government and be totally subservient to the Communist party but and this is extremely important the Communists made it clear from the very beginning that they could never hope to capture all of the United States with a war of National Liberation only part of it you see elsewhere in the world the segment of the population supposedly liberated by the Communists has been a majority segment the peasants in China the Muslims in Algeria all the people in Cuba but in the United States our negro population is in the minority and even if the Communists should be successful in creating similar Liberation movements among other segments of our people as they're trying to do for instance among mexican-americans Puerto Ricans and even American Indians even if they should succeed and then amalgamate all of these together into one large Liberation movement it still adds up to a minority of the total population and the Communists are not stupid they realize that revolution of force and violence dependent upon a minority is doomed to Ultimate failure except in those areas where they actually do constitute a majority but they aren't going to settle for just part of the United States they want all of it and so they made it clear long ago that their violent war of National Liberation must be secondary to the nonviolent proletarian Revolution to take the United States all of the United States it'll be necessary they say to involve white people as well as black to create a broad Coalition a revolutionary link between the Civil Rights Movement organized labor peace groups student dissidents and in general to escalate their revolution in America from race war to class war now this in a nutshell is the Communist position on the Negro question let's turn now to the record and see how the Communists themselves explain it now this communist booklet entitled American Negro problems was published in 1928 it was written by John pepper Alias Joseph pogan now Pagani was sent to this country as the personal Envoy of Joseph Stalin and his specific mission was to bring the American Communist Party into line with the policies and directives from Moscow particularly with regard to the Negro question and here is what pgan said the Communist Party of America in its fight against imperialism must recognize clearly the tremendous revolutionary possibilities of The Liberation movement of the Negro people it is the basic duty of the Communist Party to develop all revolutionary possibilities of the Negro race the black belt in the South constitutes virtually a colony within the body of the United States of America self-determination means the right to establish their own state to erect their own government if they choose to do so the Communist Party of America must come out openly and unreservedly for the right of national self-determination for the Negroes but it would be a major mistake to believe that there can be any other revolution in imperialist America than a proletarian Revolution now let me repeat that last sentence because it's the key to this entire presentation it would be a major mistake to believe that there can be any other revolution in imperialist America than a proletarian Revolution well moving forward to the year 1935 we come to this commun booklet entitled The Negroes in a Soviet America written by James Ford and James Allen beginning on page 24 the general strategy is laid out in rather graphic form you see there's a major heading here entitled The Negro and Revolution directly beneath this there is a subheading entitled two revolutions in one and then within this section it says the problem of negro Liberation has two aspects we shall first consider each separately and then show how the solution for the first flows into the solution for the second now the next subheading then is entitled The rebellion of an oppressed nation and the section that follows that describes the violent revolution that must be fought to liberate the black belt of the south then finally over in the next page there's another subheading entitled The proletarian Revolution and here we begin to get an idea finally of what this this phase of the revolution is all about it says capitalism is decaying it is an outworn system capitalism is based upon the private ownership of machines factories railroads land and all other means of production only one thing can do away with the basis for the existence of capitalism the expropriation of the capitalists by the way I'm sure you realize that everyone here by communist definition at least is a capitalist so you should feel feel good to know that there are those who are planning your expropriation someday in order to expropriate the capitalists the workers first need to discard the existing government machinery and to Institute A working class government under this new workers government the building of socialism begins now exactly what that's all about the building of socialism we'll get to in a moment but finally on page 28 under the third subheading entitled the combination of two revolutions the Communists reveal how the two phases of the Revolution are related to each other and which of the two is most important to them between the proletarian Revolution and the revolution of the Negro people there is a living link this is the working class here reposes the leadership of the two aspects of the Revolution but the Negro communist is first and foremost the exponent of the proletarian Revolution well 1935 is a long time ago and sometimes we hear it said that the Communists have since abandon this concept but ladies and gentlemen they cannot abandon it for the simple reason that if they did so they'd be abandoning the classic dual form of Revolution dictated by Marxism leninism they'd ceased to be Communists to justify violence they have to be able to claim that they're liberating people and if people are to be liberated then it's necessary to go through the motions at least of pretending that they have a right to form a nation of their own and so the Communist position on the Negro question today is no different than it was back in 1928 now political Affairs is the official monthly magazine of the Communist Party in this country the date on this particular issue is November 1968 the feature article for that month was the right of Black America to create a nation written by communist theoretician Claude Lightfoot now Lightfoot points out that many years of migration of negroes into the North and of caucasians into the South have altered the population statistics to the point where the black belt is considerably smaller today than it was when the Communist position on the Negro question was first drafted therefore he says the concept of a negro Nation must not necessarily be restricted to just one large territory in the south but must be expanded now to include the so-called ghetto areas in the north so having updated the basic strategy to reflect present realities he then repeats the same old communist line on page nine he says we should call for a pleite of all black Americans on whether they want to remain in the general Commonwealth or to establish another Nation within the continental United States thus the slogan of self- mination today means the struggle for the right of Black America to form a nation if it elects to do so now in passing ladies and gentlemen you may have wondered why the Communist party has been a staun supporter of the drive to place a black studies curriculum into our high schools and colleges well the reason becomes obvious the minute you take a look at the textbooks and the study guides the net effect of these courses on the students who enroll is to create a consciousness of nation by stressing the historical and cultural differences between our black and white citizens instead of the similarities the predictable impact upon the student is such that he'll view the Communist call for a separate nation with far more acceptance than his parents did under the guise of academic balance these courses have become a brilliant device for conditioning young people to accept still one more part of the total program for revolution but returning once again to Claude Lightfoot after having called for a separate nation he then repeats the every important point that as important as the National Liberation movement may be it still must be secondary in importance to the nonviolent peaceful transition to Communism called the Socialist Revolution he says from this it follows that The Advocates of a black nation must identify themselves with all that is required IR ired to set up a socialist America recognizing that black people alone could never destroy capitalism to digress again for just a moment I'd like to point out that this concept of two kinds of revolution is really the basis for that much publicized split between Moscow and P King the Moscow group says there are two kinds of Revolution violent and non-violent we believe in using either or both depending on which combination proves to be the most effective Ive but as true Marxist leninists we believe that the gradual nonviolent approach is more effective in today's modern world to which the P King group shouts in reply heresy heresy true there are two kinds of Revolution and we too are willing to practice either or both but we are the true Marxist leninists for we believe that the quick violent approach is more effective in today's modern world and there's the total difference between the two factions of world communism each claims to be more correct in its interpretation of classical communist strategy but as far as the United States is concerned you can be sure that it makes precious little difference both types of Revolution are being used against us today both are enhanced by the presence of the other and both lead to exactly the same destination all right let's move along now to the second conclusion the strategy for violent revolution in America calls for chaos Anarchy destruction a crisis in government Mass confusion and panic among the people and then out of the vacuum the sudden seizure of Power by communist-led Guerilla bands now this is the kind of activity the overthrow of government by force and violence that most people think of when they speak about communist revolutions so there's no need to belabor the point but I'm going to take just a moment to show the extent to which the Communists actually are planning to use this kind of revolution against the United States now this is not so well known now here is a book that I think ought to be in every Home Library it's entitled color communism and Common Sense by Manning Johnson now as you can see from his photograph Manning Johnson was a negro and he was also a member of the Communist Party he joined the party as a young man because he honestly believed that the Communists were trying to improve the conditions of his people he was a dedicated communist and eventually he rose to one of the highest ranks he was appointed to the National negro Commission of the Communist Party USA But after many years Manning Johnson finally came to the realization that the Communists weren't the least bit interested in improving the conditions of the Negro people he discovered that instead they were merely planning to use his people and these are his words to use them as canon fod in a bloody Revolution to destroy America and when he woke up to this he dropped out of the party and devoted the rest of his life trying to alert his fellow citizens of all Races to the true nature of the Communist party as he knew it to be from the inside and this book contains much of that story I wish I had the time to examine the entire volume with you Page by page but here at least is one short quotation that pertains to the immediate topic Manning Johnson said black rebellion was what Moscow wanted bloody racial conflict would split America during the confusion demoralization and panic would set in then finally the Reds say now at this point he quotes verbatim from a communist directive that he studied while inside the party workers stop work many of them seize Arms by attacking arsenals street fights become frequent under the leadership of the Communist Party the workers organize revolutionary commit commes to be in command of the uprising armed workers seize the principal Government offices invade the residences of the president and his cabinet members arrest them declare the old regime abolished establish their own power now here is a piece of vicious communist propaganda that perhaps some of you have seen it's called the Crusader it's published periodically in red China and is widely circulated through the Negro communities here in America it's written by Robert F Williams one of the organizers of the revolutionary action movement better known as RAM Williams also was the president of the local chapter of the NAACP in Monroe North Carolina at that time needless to say he wasn't telling very many people that he was also a member of the Communist party now one day back in 1961 he decided to start a small war of National Liberation of his own apparently he was was too impatient to wait for the big signal so finally to avoid prosecution for assault with a deadly weapon and for kidnapping he fled to Cuba and then to Red China where he now writes communist propaganda one other thing you should know about Robert Williams is that recently he was elected by members of Snick core Ram the NAACP and similar groups as the president in Exile of something called the Republic of new Africa following the Communist line in every detail these men claim that they're the representatives of a new government and a new nation within the Continental borders of the United States they issued a demand to the state department that a large segment of land be turned over to them as their rightful territory the proclamation said that they're now prepared to negotiate in good faith the peaceful transfer to them of the Southern portion of the United States the implication being of course that if they don't get it peacefully then they'll just just have to take it by force and violence already the Republic of new Africa has established a central headquarters in Mississippi and its leaders in the north are actively recruiting a black panther Guerilla force and what they call a revolutionary Freedom Corp the RFC from among black militant students to act as organizers and to set up local provisional governments as they call them in the so-called ghetto areas but the reason I've mentioned all this is merely to introduce properly one Robert F Williams the president in Exile of this Republic of new Africa and the author of the Crusader now here is what Robert Williams says the lifeblood of us capitalism is its productive capacity and its extensive Commerce if these two factors were to become paralyzed and rendered sterile the orderly function of the government establishment would degenerate into a state of chaos and the superstructure of the system would collapse the more automated a society is the more vulnerable it is to forces of Calamity what would highly mechanized America be without electrical power what would it be without modern Transportation what would it be without its industrial capacity and then having asked these questions Robert Williams proceeds to explain in minute detail exactly how to manufacture the devices that can be used by a mere handful of people to ensure that highly automated America will lose its electrical power its modern transportation and its industrial capacity I can assure you ladies and gentlemen that less than a dozen people if they know what they're doing can reduce any of our major cities into a helpless seething mass of confusion panic and death just one person one person can poison the city's entire water supply or destroy the main Aqueduct or blow up the principal pumping stations and where would people in Los Angeles for instance get a drink of water if it didn't come out of a pipe and how long can a human being survive without water four or 5 days perhaps but long before that there'd be tens of thousands of people dead in our cities not from thirst but because they were unable to defend what water they had from roving bands of desperate people who were dying of thirst and that's thinking only of the loss of water in your mind's eye compound that with no food no electricity no way to dispose of sewage no police protection no water pressure to fight fires no radio or TV no telephone No Buses no gasoline for your car no way to escape no place to go if you could don't think for a minute that the countryside would be immune from disaster either in this issue of the Crusader the Communist call not not only for extensive chaos within the cities but for putting to the torch every village every Forest every field and every Barn the plan is for Raging fires from one city to the next the reason well first there's the value of sheer destruction secondly it would force us to deploy our defenses and rescue units over the widest possible area the Communists point out that as long as our police and National Guard remain concentrated they're invincible but if they can be forced to spread out over the entire city and into the countryside as well then they can be picked off from Ambush one by one and the third value of massive fire to the Communists is psychological the average American they say soft and decadent when he sees Billows of black smoke rising from one horizon to the other when at night the only light he has to see by is the flickering red from Flames leaping into the sky he'll become paralyzed with fear and panic you run away and hide and do nothing to interfere with the gorilla bands as they strike at the community's power centers the Crusader explains how to set up sniper units in crowded metropolitan areas how to manufacture jumbo Molotov cocktails the gallon jug size and how to mix the gasoline with certain ingredients to make it burn like napom how to pour gasoline into utility manholes in the streets to set fire to the main telephone cables how to put sulfur tips from matches into air conditioning units and blow up large buildings how to ignite gas Ms and oil storage tanks it explains how radiocontrol model airplanes can be used to fly explosive charges over heavily guarded fences into gasoline storage areas or munition stockpiles it even calls for infiltration into the National Guard units revolutionaries posing as non-m militants for the purpose purpose of getting free military training and for gaining access to critical military supplies and heavy weapons and then finally Robert Williams says this any allout minority Revolution must create a state of Crisis wherein almost all of the male population would be forced to remain in their homes to protect their property and families the middle class is very large but it is not accustomed to deprivation and Terror because of its affluence it has waxed soft it has no stomach for massive fire blood and violence the motive force behind its life Drive is its endless pursuit of prestige conspicuous consumption and sensual pleasure a few years of violent sporadic and highly destructive uprisings will set the stage for the grand finale after the stage is properly set through protracted struggle America could be brought to her her knees in 90 days of Highly organized Fierce fighting sabotage and massive Firestorm Now ladies and gentlemen no evaluation would be complete if we failed to note that the Communist blueprint calls also for white retaliation and violence in the black communities it's a very important objective for the Communist party so far they've only been able to involve a small percentage of our negro people in this war of National Liberation the great majority want no part of it in any form but the one sure way to change that is to have white vigilante groups striking into the Negro sections supposedly to seek revenge we mustn't kid ourselves into thinking that the Communists have placed their agitators only into the black communities they're working both sides of the street they want hatred violence and bloodshed between the races and they don't care how they get it or whom they use even children if necessary part of the plan calls for Commando squads of black revolutionaries to drive into the white residential areas and shoot little children playing on the sidewalks for the sole purpose of drawing out of the white communities violent retaliation into the black communities now this is extremely important to the Communists they must have it for in this way they plan to unite the entire negro population for protection behind the militant minority it's not a very pretty picture but it's one we need to understand so that no matter what happens to us or to our families God willing will have the strength at least to avoid doing anything that would play further into the hands of the Communists ladies and gentlemen the plans and preparations for for a Communist Revolution of force and violence are far Advanced the organization Behind These preparations has almost unlimited financial resources and it provides both training and Leadership based upon years of experience in many other countries our enemies are deadly serious about their task and it's nothing short of National Suicide for us to continue to ignore their plans and their progress well all right having said this now I'm going to qualify it somewhat by turning to conclusion number three as important as the strategy for violent revolution is and it certainly cannot be overstressed nevertheless the strategy for nonviolent Revolution is even more important to the Communists and more potentially fatal to us so let's turn next to that part of the total picture