Evening star., 1953-05-09
Christianity vs.. Communism
Documentary Comparison
BY chanes W. Lowry
2GospeIs:
Communism

The Communists disdain to
conceal their views and aims.
They openly declare that their
ends can be attained only by
the forcible overthrow of all
existing social conditions. Let
the ruling classes tremble at a
Communist revolution. The
proletarianS have nothing to
lose but their chains. They have
a world to win. Working men
of all countries, unite!
-Mayr Gnd EnOel': Communist
The theoretical conclusions
of the Communists are in no
way based on ideas or princi-
pies that have been invented,
or discovered by this or that
would-be universal reformer.
They merely express in gen.
eral terms actual relations
springing from an existing class
struggle, from a historical
movement going on under our
very eyes.
In bourgeois society the past
dominates the present: in Com
munist society the present DOM
mates the past.
Communist Manifesto.
The philosophers have only
interpreted the world in vari-
Gus ways; the point however Is
to change it.
The standpoint Of the old
materialism is "civil society"
the standpoint Of the new is
human society or socialized hui
manity.
-Karl Mars: Theses on Fsusr-
bach.
Man makes religion; religion
does not make man 90.
Religion is the sigh Of the OPP
pressed creature, the feelings OF
q heartless world . the spirit
of unspiritual conditions. 1t Is
the opium Of the people 80.
The people cannot be really
happy until it has been de-
prived of illusory happiness
by the abolition Of religion.
Thus 1t is the mission OF
history, after the other
worldly truth has disappeared,
to establish the truth Of this
world.
-Marr: Eur Kritik der He0elschen
RechtSphtlos
Between capitalist and COM
munist society lies the period
of the revolutionary trans
formation of the one into the
other. There corresponds to
this also a political transition
period in which the state can
be nothing but the revolu-
tionary dictatorship Of the
proletariat.
-Marr: CritiQue OF the GothG
Programme.
For us it cannot be a ques-
ton of changing private prop
erty but only It's destruction,
not of CLOSING over class an
tagonisms but Of abolishing
classes, not of bettering the
existing society but of found
ing a new one.
MARI: Lsstts, to the Communist
7 The doctrine of the class
war leads inevitably to the
recognition of the political
supremacy of the proletariat,
of its dictatorship, lie. Of an
authority shared with none
else and relying directly upon
the armed force Of the masses.
The proletariat needs the
state, the centralized organi-
zation of force and violence.
both for the purpose Of
crushing the resistance of the
exploiters and for the purpose
of guiding the great mass of
the population-the peasan-
try, the lower middle-class.
the semi-proletariat-in the
work of economic socialist
reconstruction.
-Lenin: The State and ReUolu-
tion.
The teaching of Marx is all
powerful because it is true.
-Lenin: Article in Education.
-PrdDGd: Auolst, 1895.
o great Stain, o leader of
the peoples,
Thou who broughtest man
to birth,
Thou who purifiest the
earth,
Thou who restorest the CEN
turies,
Thou who makest bloom the
spring,
Thou who makest the musi-
cal chords.
Thou, splendor Of my
spring, o thou
Sun reflected of million Of
hearts