We have to generate the answers to the big questions, but out of our own limited experience we can know nothing with certainty. If we were to add up the thinking of all of mankind, we would still have only limited knowledge. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn understands this not only as a theoretical problem of a humanistic philosophy. He has suffered under its implications. It scoffs at good and evil as indisputable categories.
Communism considers morality to be relative.
Depending upon circumstances, any act, including the killing of thousands, could be good or bad. It all depends upon class ideology, defined by a handful of people. . . . It is considered awkward to use seriously such words as good and evil. We will decline to the status of animals. We in the West must understand that it is not only Iron Curtain countries who operate on the basis of relative morality.