Menacing Winds

sives,” and Socialists claiming to be concerned about humanity, espoused inhumanity because of their inability to comprehend Communism. Speaking of the Hungarian Social Democrats of 1918 the author comments: “Like most of the socialists of other countries, they imagined socialism to be a form of liberal, progressive philosophy. They still thought with Bernstein that socialism is the outcome of liberalism.” Speaking of Russia in the middle thirties, he writes: “When the editorial writers of Pravda and Izvestia go into eulogies over the Marxist constitution, we know that they are literati in the pay of Stalin’s dictatorship; but why should some of our American writers deliberately lie concerning this about-face of Russia’s trend towards democracy? Is Comrade Stalin’s ‘writers’ fund’ larger than we thought?”

“One can easily imagine,” he concludes, “what damage Stalinist organizations could do to our country in a crisis. It is high time to take steps to protect the American citizen from having to face an enemy in his own ranks in time of war; to protect our working men from being organized into groups of units, subject to party discipline, and obedient to the edicts of a foreign dietator; and to secure our citizens against having their property destroyed and their premises forcefully occupied by reckless agitators.”

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sives,” and Socialists claiming to be concerned about humanity, espoused inhumanity because of their inability to comprehend Communism. Speaking of the Hungarian Social Democrats of 1918 the author comments: “Like most of the socialists of other countries, they imagined socialism to be a form of liberal, progressive philosophy. They still thought with Bernstein that socialism is the outcome of liberalism.” Speaking of Russia in the middle thirties, he writes: “When the editorial writers of Pravda and Izvestia go into eulogies over the Marxist constitution, we know that they are literati in the pay of Stalin’s dictatorship; but why should some of our American writers deliberately lie concerning this about-face of Russia’s trend towards democracy? Is Comrade Stalin’s ‘writers’ fund’ larger than we thought?”

“One can easily imagine,” he concludes, “what damage Stalinist organizations could do to our country in a crisis. It is high time to take steps to protect the American citizen from having to face an enemy in his own ranks in time of war; to protect our working men from being organized into groups of units, subject to party discipline, and obedient to the edicts of a foreign dietator; and to secure our citizens against having their property destroyed and their premises forcefully occupied by reckless agitators.”