Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-25
Man and Murxism

dent, I would not be hard
put to it" to counter Marshal
Zhukov's argument that COM
munism is idealistic and
Americans are too material
istic. 1 would have shown
zhukov that the very ideal
ism of communism is itself
materialistic and unrealistic.
Communism is material
istic. Lenin wrote: "Marxism
is materialism." and THE
MarxiSt must be a material
ist." Marx put the material
istic religion of Feuerbach
together with the dialectical
theory Of Hegel and brought
forth dialectical materialism.
the scientific definition of
communism. Dialectical ma.
terialism says there is no God
and that the universe is basil
cally matter. Man himself is
only thinking material. Marx
ist doctrine sees all mans life
wrapped up in material
things and the all-propelling
factor in mans life is eco
nomic force. So why should
comrade Zhukov point to
Americans as being too ma
terialiStic when his own ideal
ism is materialism of the
rankest sort?
Communism is unrealistic
as an theology because it
holds a naive conception of
the nature and possibilities
of sinful man. Neither his
tory nor the Scripture sup
ports its utopianism brought
about by economic reorgani-
zation. The root of mans
trouble is in himself, not in
his environment. A far great
er social prophet than Karl
Marx wrote, THE heart is F. .
desperately wicked" (Jere-
miah 1890. A false view of
human nature is fatal to any
philosophy. Man himself
needs to be revolutionized
not by liquidation of the
other fellow but by spiritual
regeneration, or as Jesus put
it, "Ye must be born again"
John SD.
Apparently the President is
impressed by 1.-The appeal of
Communist idealism, as diff
ferentiated from communism
in practice" However, any
system be it, free enterprise
or communism is but the
outworking Of certain cher
ished principles. Communism
in practice is but the out
working of dedicated goddess
ness. 1t originated in the
rejection Of God and ends
in the destruction of man
who was made in the image
of God. The economic theory
COR Communist idealism of
Marxism simply cannot be
separated from its atheism.
for Marx himself stated.
Atheism is a natural and
inSeparable part Of Marxism,
of the theory and practice Of
scientific socialism" Notice
Marx said, of the
theory and practice :" The
two are "inseparable." for
the bloody practice Of COM
munism is the direct result
of the atheistic materialistic
theory of communism. Com
munism in theory is the de-
struction of the free-enter-
prise system; communism in
practice is the destruction Of
the free-enterprise system.
But the evils of the free
enterprise system are as
nothing compared with the
brutal tyranny Of a goddess
slave state. Those who refer
to the so-called half truth
Of communism" as though
they like certain aspects Of
1t but reject the atheism and
materialism of communism.
are either dupes or deceivers.
Marxist doctrine is bloody
bolshevism in practice and
both its theory and its prac-
tice are Numerically OPP
posed to the Bible and to the
historic Christian faith which
have made America great.
To the extent men drift
away from God and the
Bible they become material
istic. Today America is ex-
periencing this drift toward
a materialistic. socialistic
state because she has been
forgetting and forsaking her
fathers God Who is the
Author Of Liberty.
John v. Grier KOontE.
-
1t is regrettable that when
President Eisenhower talked
with Marshal Zhukov. and
the latter said that commu-
nism Is spiritual" whereas
the West is "materialistic.
he did not answer as my
favorite living PHILOSOPHER.
Prof. Finer S. c. Northrop.
would have answered. In his