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_ ~ ae e yooNe . “ s ~~ oe ea . : is er ther: store, dectied that the Young Comrade would have to die and his body i. a if. "2% would have to be destroyed in order to save the mvement. Tay The Young Comrade by that time sees his mistake and consents) 3 7 to being killed. He is shot and thrown into a lime pit where his bal is 4 deatroyed. The Four Agitators then return to their wrk which was successful. 3 gee Between the various scenes of thie play, the "Control Committee" S oe “dndicates agreement with the action of the four agitators. In one instance ee es i they atate, "Ee who fights i0F Communism Gaist be abie to Pight and net vo 1 fight, to tell the truth and not to tell the truth, perform services and refuse to perform services, keep promises and fail to keep cromises, to meet danger and to avoid danger, to be discernible and to be indiscernible. He - who fights for Communism has only one virtue; that he fights for Cort-anism. In other places throughout the play, the "Control Com-ittee" sings The Praise of the U.S.S.R., of the Commnist Party and of illegal work. They conclude the play with the following addressed to the four eawetitet¢nes. ve, wai the teashings of the Classicists, the ABC of agitate: as anu = ees Wie VOUGAMNIZMERS VA Vy Vee SSLCLEVE wast £0 Commnism. To the uninformed you brought inforetion about their situation, to the oppressed you brought class consciousness. To the class conscious — you brought the experience of revolution. The revolution is alse on the march there, and the ranks of the fighters are organized there alsc, and re are in agreement with you. Your report shows us how mich is necessry to transform the world; anger and tenacity, knowledge and indignation, to strike quickly, te ponder deeply, cold patience, endless waiting, a grasp of individual detail and comprehension of the whcle. We can only change real ity whan taught by reality." ‘ In a letter dated May 12, 1950 at Berlin, which is published along with the foregoing play and which is signed by both EISLER and the Subject, the authors of “The Disciplinary leasure™ defend tii: play and explain their intention in writing it. This letter ctjects to censorship of the “Disciplinary Measure" before its presentation. It specifically calls "The Disciplinary Measure™ an educational pley and suggests thst its presentation be removed from all influences. This letter further suggests that the play be presented by those for whom it was intended, and who alone have use for them: Workers ohoruses, groups of amateur players, school choruses, school orchestras. —a_ hk —-- Lt a_i tg =~ Tuas tk dé st _ teg Ta & move published Voge vHSEr with wh prey, 16 a6 "the players (singers and actors) have the task of teaching while cox This note further states: “However, attempts should not be sj ‘ : to deeive recipes for political action from "The Disciplinary Measure’ zg without a knowledge of the ABC of dialectic materialiam. What Lenin sajd about morality applies to the several ethical concepts such as dation = Freedom, Huxanity, etoc., which appear in the play: ‘lie draw our mral philosophy from the interest of the proletarian class struggle.'*