Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-12-28
From This Angle
Right & Lef+-Way Out
BY Les KimbIe

threaten the ideas espoused by the govern.
ment in power. 1.-THE party of Communists
not only allows no freedom, such as liberty
of press speech meetings. unions, for the
bourgeois enemies of the people, but also goes
further. and demands that the government be
always ready to close the bourgeois press, to
forbid their lying and libeling and their SOW
ing panic" Nicolai Burkharin, Prog. of Com.
munists (1918). italian journalism is free
because it serves but one cause and regime"
Mussolini to Italian journalists, Oct. 10, 1928.
Although Russia allows religious worship,
Communism is firmly against religion in any
form A good Communist must scorn relig.
ion Religion is the opiate of the people"
Jaroslavsky, Thoughts of Lenin about Relig-
ion (1925).
Fascism, being a phoney religion as Is
Communism, places the state above religion,
but it is not necessarily hostile towards rel
gion, for it tries to transfer religious devotion
to the dictator. Mussolini and Franco signed
pacts with the Catholic Church that still exist
Fascism tries to use religion for its own pur
pose II believe in no one of the earth except
Adolf Hitler believe in Lord God who
created me and guides us; and believe that
this Lord God sent us Adolf Hitler" Robert
Ley, Kulturkampf Is April 1889.
Communism is against free speech, free
press free enterprise, unions, capitalism, rep
resentative government, private property, re
hgion, and the middle and upper classes, while
paying lip service to the working man, the
underpriviledged, and democracy (by their
own definition). Communism is anti-Fascist.
Fascism is against free press, free speech,
free enterprise, representative government, un-
ions, democracy, and the individual, while pay
ing lip service to religion and super-patriot-
ism. Fascism is anti Communist Communism
usually makes its pitch to the working man
and the altruistic intellectual while Fascism
usually makes its pitch to the middle and up
per classes, the military, and to religious in
dividuals. Both Communism and Fascism will
use the staggering bully quick to emotional
and violent action, to put themselves in pow
er. In general Communism sets the poorer
people against the more wealthy and Fascism
sets the majority against minority, usually
OF race or religion, and both will appeal to
ignorance wherever it is found.
All of the quotes used here are taken
from the World Book Encyclopedias article
on government in Book G, page 3O76. In four
teen pages of three columns printed side by
side, the World Book compares Democracy.
Communism, and Fascsm. Any American
who is not sure of his elementary knowledge
OF the enemy PHILOSOPHERS of Communism and
Fascism or Of his heritage of democracy
would do well to spend a quiet hour in the
library reading this entire article. Those
Americans who want to be effective oppon-
ents of Communism and Fascism must not
only know what they are against but also
what they are for. In these days when we
have extremists ranting and roaring in var.
ious corners of our land, citizens should exam
inc their remarks and PHILOSOPHERS in the
light of an accurate knowledge of Commu-
nism, Fascism, and Democracy.