Detroit evening times., 1945-06-28
PAUL
NlALLON
behind
The News
WASHINGTON, June PA

he News
WASHINGTON, June PA
w Boston reader wrote me
asking what IS this thing called
communism and why should 1t
not dominate Europe
The Russians seem to be
fairly agreeable peasant people.
A. Gen. Eisenhower said, they
like to laugh and eRjoy life.
They are not a warlike people.
Yet their government comes
AT YOU with the grimmest man.
ner ever known TO man. from a
hole so deeply walled with cen
Sorsh1p that il will never let
escape a single verifiable sta
tlstlc about itself, or even a sin.
core convincing statement of its
-purpose--
What is this thing with which
We are faced? What does 1t
want?
This raises the prime aues-
tion OF the world today. for II
is the question behind war or
peace, behind the strength or
weakness of the San Francisco
peace formula, behind prosper
its and world trade, world p0tI-
tics-everything that is ahead
Of us economically. politically
and spiritually.
4 PPARENTLY there are All
n kinds of socialism, including
the late Hitler kind. The word
Nazl Is derived from the Ger
man title of Hitler'S national
Socialist party. Thus we have
Russian, German and American
socialism, the most lmplaCahle
Toes or each other, all swearing
death against each ether This
being .%hat-fS-ti--29--- 2--
The Russians called the Ger
man socialism "faSCiSm. and
we have accepted that term, but
is il correct -EaSciSm, in
theory, is a government by
classes working together The
name was derived from the
Italian word "Fasces denoting
handful of sticks held to-
gether.
This WaS-the insignia of fas-
CiSm, II symbolized the gather
ms together OF The various class
groups into a supposedly legiSla-
tive (cahlnetl--assetfft7ty-
representative for the auto in
duStry. one Tor auto labor one
for the farm one for the manu-
facturc Of farm implements, etc.
Whereas We elected our Con-
-creSSrcn TO represent geo
graphical districts containing all
classes of people. the Fascist
theory advocated national
representative setup on class
lines.
IT WAS MuSSolini who inSti-
Il tuted this at first in Italy II
did not work He took II over as
dictator on a per diem theory
basis. The Parliament and Coun-
ellis tended 10 become nonenlty
in a nation where terrorism re-
Strictcd politics 10 one party of
which there was one leader and
the individual was made the
slave OF the state.
These indisputable facts SuC-
Cest one thinking even on this
subject has been warped by
SemanticS. There are all kinds
Of relationships around the
world Russia calls all except
her own, Fascist This is no
more accurate than TO call Rus
Sla Communist
Hitler borrowed methods from
MuSSolni but not the Fascist
l-sA AsteH4--E4Aeed- fft4rr-har
RolchStag CparliamenD elected
by districts, but he. too. allowed
only one party 10 exist by force,
power. terrorism.
Now both MuSSolni and Hit
Ter created their systems in OPP
position to an Older political
movement in Europe, using all
the same methods. but still an
other form of cell representa-
ton under a dictatorshlp-va-
rlouSly called communism,
bOlSheviSm and MarXiSm
The theory of dictatorship
Of the proletariat was conceived
out of the German philosopher
Marx 10 overthrow capitalism.
The Marx theory was negative
and. like most PHILOSOPHERS,
broad enough TO encourage any
thing going its anti-CapitaliSt
way. The BolShcviSts favored
immediate revolution for over
throw of capitalism and Lenin
wrote the communal dogma,
compromising the Marx bolShe-
ViSm and Stain has Compro-
missed IT further
DCT the methods Of secret
ID police. absolute discipline
upon the individual, no free
election choices, subjeCtion Of
The individual to the VIII of the
state. purgcS and Singleheaded
dictatorship were originated bV