Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-06

the conquest of the world he can then participate in
program to change human nature, perfect human
character, and populate the entire earth with new
quality Of personality infinitely superior to any that
history has ever known. The appeal that attracts
the young student is almost religious appeal that
his life can be utilized for the regeneration Of all
mankind.
Mr.. Arens. Would you care to elaborate on that
theme, Doctor?
DR.. Schwarz. When you ask the Communist
simple question: slow are you going to change
human nature?" they would answer with one word
and that word Is science" We are scientists.
Science has changed the material world. Science
has changed the world Of agriculture. Science has
changed the world Of animal husbandry. We can use
science to change human nature ITSELF
This sounds very appealing. You can UNDER
stand how this sounds to young student infatuated
with the techniques Of science. To participate in.
using science for its greatest achievement is seduc.
tive vision.
However. to be scientific you must follow scien-
tifc laws, and communism then proceeds to give it
three scientific laws. These laws are as follows:
The first one is "There is no God" They are
proudly unashamedy aheistic in theory and in prac-
tce. When they deny God, they simultaneously deny
every virtue and every value that originates with
God. They deny moral law They deny absolute
standards of truth and Righteousness. An entire
civilized code Of moral and ethical values is destroyed
so that they free to erect in their place moral
and ethical standards as the occasion demands.
The second law Of communism is that man is
q material machine. He is matter in motion and
nothing more. Man is a body; and he is completely
describable in terms of the laws of chemistry and
physics. Man has no soul, no spirit no significant
individual value, no continuity Of lie He is entirely
an evolutionary product, the specie Homo sapens,
and subject to modification, adaptation and trans
formation by the applied established laws of animal
husbandry.
William z. Foster. chairman Of the American
Communist Party, expresses it in his book the Twi-
light of World Capitalism, which he wrote in 1949.
In the last chapter, The Advent Of the Socialist Man.
he writes:
Henceforth, the evolution of human species must
be done artihcialy by the conscious action Of man
himself.
Their. second law, therefore, Is the material
animal nature Of man.
The third law Of communism is economic deter.
inism 1t states that the qualities Of human intel
.gence. personality, emotional and religious life
merely reflect the economic environment that in the
last analysis what We think, what we feel what we
believe, whom we love, and whom we worship is
simply an expression of the environment in which we
are raised; and since that environment is primarily
concerned with economic forces, in the final analysis
man is a determined economic being.
point from posing this question, even at the risk of
breaking the theme II the Communists major prem
Use IS correct that you and not morally respon-
sble then why would the Communists in the same
breath turn around and try to moral response
biity against what they describe as the capitalists?
DR.. Schwarz. In the final analysis they do not
do that. They consider themselves as superior to
the capitalist the farmer is superior to his animal
Moral responsibility is not involved. They UNDER
stand capitalist motivation the automatic outcome
Of capitalist economics. Since the root is evil the
fruit must be It is their duty to destroy the root
and frequently the fruit. The concept of his moral
guilt does not enter into it any more than when
farmer destroys an animal giving positive tuber-
culin reaction. You do not consider that animal
morally responsible. He belongs to certain class
which by reason of its association, has developed
certain potentially dangerous character and no mat
ter how splendid the ANIMAL its destruction is obga-
tory.
Communism rests on a class concept They be-
ieve the proetarat class is the progressive class Of
historyand that the capitalist classes the degenerate
classes, are discarded by history and must be de-
stroyed To them this is the law of historical devel
opment. To argue on bourgeois moral basis merely
reflects degenerate class origin.
Economic determnism is the third law of CON-
munsm
Applying these laws, communism asserts that
the environment of capitalism is degenerative en-
vironment and it creates degenerate people. The
responsibility for individual evil for vice and crime,
for seshness and greed in all its manifestations is
not that of the individual 1t is the projection of the
capitalist environment into the individual.
The Communist believes that If you are going to
change the individual, If you are going to change
mankind it is foolish to think that you can do it while
the degenerative capitalist environment exists First
you must conquer the world and, having conquered
the world, you must destroy the capitalist environ
ment which is built on profit, sefshness, and greed.
You must replace it by socialism which is built on
service, cooperation, and unseshness, that from
birth the experiences Of the environment will build
into the character unselfshness, cooperation, and