Evening star., 1948-06-20

Sudlly WlLQeT away. dooel oIdllii ic
verted to the only sort of rule his
countrymen had ever known. The
MARKHAM dictatorship of the prole-
tariat was changed to the autocracy
of single despot, more aboslute
than the Romanoffs. The methods
by which the czars safeguarded
their power were revived-a secret
police. terrorism, purges and slave
camps in Siberia,
Stains second innovation trans
muted the international revolu-
ton" of Marx and Lenin into ma
tionalist imperialism on behalf OF
Russia. One feature of Communist
global policy was retained. Dis
ciples in all lands were bound to
follow in blind and rigid obedience
every f1uctuating dictate of the
Kremlin.
BY definition, a Communist of
whatever country is pledged to the
forcible overthrow of existing states
and parliamentary systems, which
are denounced as purely capitalist
institutions. For private ownership
he is sworn to substitute collective
control and possession of property,
with a new proletarian regime as
master of the economic forces of
society. Democracy, for him, means
economic equality. His conscience
is free to employ ruse. trickery and
deception. In case of conflict be-
tween his own government and the
Soviet Union, his allegiance is due
to Moscow and not to Washington,
London. Paris or Rome.
Two Systems Unexportable
The free peoples of the world, in
cluding the United States, are fire.
quently denounced by Russian
spokesmen as Fascist reaction
aries" One orator bracketed Presi-
dent Truman with Adolf Hitler. In
order to understand what these
accusations imply, 1t is necessary
to glance briefly at fascism and
national socialism. They are Off
cially dead. but persist underground
with more or less vitality, in Italy
and Germany. Their principles, &C.
cording to the Russians, are spread
ing apace among the democracies.
Both creeds are opposed to Marx
ism and the proletariat on the one
hand, and to the bourgeoisie and
capitalism on the other. They diff
fered from communism in two out
standing respects. The leadership
principle" was elevated into per
manent factor by fascism and ma
tional socialism. In theory, at
least, the Communist dictatorship
is a temporary measure, until the
masses are trained to be worthy of
political freedom and civil privileges.
Communism, again in theory, is in
ternational. Both Hitler and Benito
Mussolini declared that their sys-
tens were not exportable.
The central principle Of fascism
was its alteration of war. The
tenets of Its creed were love OF
audacity and danger, Of strength
courage and resolution; and devo-
ton and sacrifice for the nation
Mussolini declared all life to be
IAN education for combat" and
pronounced that war is to the man
what maternity is to the woman. y
He insisted on Darwin's iron law
of nature" which makes the strong
prevail over the weak. From the
beginning, fascism was an impla-
cable enemy of democracy and the
rights of man.
National socialism was a whole
sale borrower. It's youth movement
was copied from the Catholic
church and its "Eerrenvolk" theory
from the Chosen People" Of the
Jews. From communism 1t took
Lenin's revolutionary technique
and the Russian method Of sup
porting power by means Of terror
ism, political police and cells OF
informers in every block. Hitler's
Brown Shirts" initiated Musso-
lini's BLACK Shirts"
Two of the Fascist articles OF
faith were intensely congenial to