The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-01-18
tion that the Communist party is violence are malicious falsehoodS.

tion that the Communist party is violence are malicious falsehoods.
 We Communists are not opposed to the right of every man to own property. We stand for just that. We have no desire to dispossess the people of their hard won earnings. But as we state so many times, we are opposed to the private owner ship of the means of production and distribution. The control and own- erShip of the most vital elements of | life for the sole purpose of profit is crime. No individual or group of individuals, for whatsoever purpose, is entitled to withhold from the American people the wealth of this country and to keep them in want and starvation; because they, the owners, will not release their grip on the necessities of life unless they can make profits enough to suit their greed. Because of this greed for profits the capitalists dispossess the people. How else could 159o of the population own 85%o of the wealth of the nation?
 It is this very wealth that is a constant threat to democracy. The existence of and industrial auto cracy within the structure of de- mocracy is an irreconcilable contra diction that prevents the full reali- ration of democracy. Political de- mocracy,. in order to survive, must have a background of industrial democracy. American history is a history of struggle to preserve this industrial democracy and to check the concentration of wealth.
 President Roosevelt, in his Jack son day address, says of some capi- talists what more correctly applies to all capitalists that: At heart they oppose our American form of government" Capitalism is by the very nature of its philosophy and structure opposed to democracy. In its present reactionary stage it en- dangers the welfare of the people and threatens to supplant democ- racy with the rule of big business, the rule of fascism.
 Therefore it is the capitalists who are the enemies of American democ- racy. c. c. peddles crass lie when he accuses the Soviet Union of de- signs against American democracy. That is 8 fantastic and vile myth that only lying batter is capable of. The struggle for the preserva- tion of democracy is a struggle against reactionary capitalism. That is why the Communists stand in the forefront of that struggle. We de- fend the rights of the people and so we defend democracy.
 c. c. has as fine an appreciation of the historical present as he has of the historical past. When he quotes William Green, neither he nor Green gain in stature either with the Communists or anybody else, particularly the workers. c. c. shows fond respect for MT. Green but the American workers show no such admiration. The laboring masses have shown MT. Green what they think of his red batting by rallying> to the banner of the c. I. o. in the greatest trade union organi- zation drive in the history of Amer ica. None of MT. Greens frantic red denunciations availed him in his disgraceful attempts to smash the c. I. O.
 Want of space prevents us from answering in full the many false hoods that pour from c. C.'s prolific brain. We are deeply moved by o. C.'s tender solicitude for the plight of Soviet women. We shall be more than glad to deal with that when we have more space. c. c. lov- ingly speaks of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We would like to ask him in what world does he live? Where has he been the last ten years? He must be well pro- vided to wallow in such luxurious thought. Life, liberty, and the pur- suit of happiness is still an objec- tive. There is no party that has set this as its goal as has the Commu- mist party.
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