The people's voice., 1951-06-08

temporarily impose harsh die
tatorship on them. Russia has there.
fore adopted the revolutionary Asian
child whom we disown and seek tc
destroy, and multitudes whether mis-.
takenly or not, recognize Russia as
mentor and liberator.
Now if we were Communists OF
fellow-travelers we would rest there
saying "QED. The revolution which
the American imperialists and war
mongers would destroy is in good
hands. 1t will triumph, and a phase
of its victory will be the destruction
of the arrogant American capital
ism and imperialism" But we who
believe in the values of democratic
society and the Judaeo-Christian ira
dition cannot rest there. We cannot
accept the Communicated revolution
as the "true" revolution. 1t is es-
lsentially counter-revolutionary. We
must inevitably cry out against it.
We must oppose it. We must put the
oppressed peoples on guard and aid
them against this false Messiah. But
how?
There is a sense in which Com
munism also is a creation, a child,
of the West. In Communism the
ostensible aim is still democratic.
the liberation of man. But for the
achievement of this aim Marx and
Lenin took not only the new tech
nology but the Vests materialism
and secularism, its concept of man
as producer and as exploiter and
plunderer of nature, its mechani-
cation, its amoralism, it's reliance
upon violence, and forged these
into a philosophical system and a
revolutionary instrument.
Stain has fused these with the
Russian power-state. This is the mon
ster of pseudo-revolution, the false
Messiah which we confront, before
which the us. becomes visibly hys-
terical. Partly, surely, because this
also is in a sense our child, an ille-
gitimate child born out of wedlock
"a sort of lower self, objectified
and come to menace US.
Among progressives in the us.
there is unanimous agreement that
the problem presented by the on-go-
ing revolutions in the Orient and the
Communist menace cannot be solved
by military means alone. The us.
it is urged, must not impede but must
take the leadership of the popular
for a better life, at the |
very least must give them all possible
encouragement and help. We must |
counter Soviet propaganda by pro-
oaganda on behalf of the democratic |
way of life and help the so-called |
backward peoples to develop a dem
ocratic society. However, we are
also told that common sense requires
is to look well after our military
'defenses" until Russia comes to its
senses OF is at least forced to make
-erms.
The $64 question thus comes up:
Jan this combination of encourage
nent and/or leadership of the popu-
al revolutions AND of military read
ness TO contain and if necessary de-
troy Russia or the pseudo-revolution,
De achieved? Is it the formula for
emoving the menace of Russia? For !
aving and extending the democratic
way of life?
1t is my conviction that the an
swer to this question must be NO. II
Whatever may be the case in terms
of abstract theory, in terms of con-
temporary political realities the {
job cannot be done in this way. t
The horses it is proposed to team /
Up are going likely y-split in opposite
directions. 8
Space permits the citing of only i
ouple of illustrations. To "defend" i
urselves against Russian "aggres- S
ion" or the strengthening of it's {
over position to equip it for more S
Elective aggression" in the future, t
re do such things as we are doing in V
-orea. 1t cannot be denied that if {