The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1953-04-16
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lists, is rather gloomy about
the present prospects for peace
in the world.
The word peace is like the
words liberal and demo
cracy.' It is a word OF. private
definition and means one thing
to one person or nation and
another thing to another.
Mr.. Sokolsky, who has spent
many years in Russia and
China and has had much ex-
perience in dealing with the
oriental mind, told a New
Orleans audience last week
that he feels the present peace
offers from Russia are fraud
and cannot be trusted.
He said he felt the situation
could be resolved into the es-
sential difference between the ,
Marxist way of life and the
western way Of life.
The western way Of life, oul
own conception, is that man is
created by God and given u
certain nature by God, quail
ties of will. personality, intel
ligence, a capacity for judg-
ment whether good or bad, a
genius for invention. All these
come from the grace of God,
we believe.
The Marxists do not believe
this. Rather they believe that
man is biological creature, a
product of and controlled by
his environment. He further
believes that all of life is
struggle and clash and that
what survives is right. In other
words the Marxists believe
that MIGHT MAKES RIGHT
and this is a fundamental
concept of his--whereas our
western concept of society and
man Tor civilization encom-
passes compassion, brotherly
love and forgiveness. We be-
lieve that even the criminals
must have an opportunity not
to be wrong eternally. Our
life is based upon these quail
ties, our feeling Of obligation
for the welfare Of our brother |
and sister.
II we believed like the |
Marxists there would be no |
need for morals, for justice, no
basis for an ethical life. In
stead we would be just an &C.
cident in the world and no
better off than a worm stand
ing on its head.
Mr.. Sokolsky said the great
struggle between science and
religion came out Of the Marx
list movement and the struggle
between capital and labor is
only incidental.
The Marxists promise their
people a heaven on earth. But
they don't say when.
The autocracy Of the czars
in Russia for more than a
thousand years made it posi-
BILE to apply the concept of the
Marxist to the proletariat, the
speaker said, so that in the
early l920's a slavery of man
was established with these two
concepts: dictatorship of the
proletariat and whoever con-
trolls environment controls
man.
The one party that con-
trolls the government in Russia
controls all the people. This
concept they would like to APP
ply to the entire world and
they have not wavered from it
one iota.
Already they control over
1/6 of the surface of the earth
and over 800 million people,
They control the largest depo-
sits of minerals on the earth and
they are spreading into every
country in the world using the
native sons of each country,
seeking to destroy the will of
the people to resist. This they
are doing with their genius
for infiltration and al
ways they never WAIVER from
their fanatical belief that the
Marxist cannot live with Chris
tianity and capitalism.
Mr.. Sokolsky believes that we
cannot solve our problems in
America with spending vast
sums, or with our army and
navy, air force and atom
bombs, and we need them all,
he says.
But our basic problem, he
believes, is seeking the answer
to the question of why we are
here. our problem of thought
and belief. Unless we believe
differently from the Marxist
there's no need to fight him,
he says. There are lots OF
Americans, he added, who be-
lieve that we can be a part
of a world government-that
there is no further need for Q