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5 3 ‘ [BEEAtION began ‘wah A tine sae, re “dom re Yeligion; PERL liberty, but:liberty understood -as<—to admitting that God 1s above the om from ‘something rather than-~~Party; there is no Yreedom ‘to dissent dom for ~gomething.- Communism . ~politically, for no rival parties are tol- gan with Degen it was hoped to make > everyone — ‘happy ‘by establishing “a: ‘elassless society. Commu- "nism was not so ‘much feoncerned with political ‘equality won by which all "men were made equal be- fore the law, but rather th economic ~ equality pwhich was not yet won. <The argument of ‘the :£ ommunists was as fol- ws:-The reason there. £2 ‘gre Mequalities in the _ feconomic orderis because. rot private property, By its wery nature, private prop- ‘erty is the basis of exploi- ‘fation,’ communism. ‘argues. It has built up a- ‘system in. which one man -- “works for another for “wages, ‘and- as-a result, society’ into ‘two classes: the exploiting |” @lass, and the ‘exploited class. The way, , therefore, “to do away with all inequali- files is to do away with private property. by putting all productive private prop-~ . ‘erty into the hands of the State; then ~ ‘all servants of the State. £4 such ‘a solution attributes all ‘the 7 ‘wrongs In the social order to some- thing inside, namely, to private prop- erty instead of avarice and injustice. _ ‘But apart from this general observation there are two great defects in the com-: * ‘munistic scheme “ot equality, ‘These de- fectsare: Het ts ‘the cost of freedom. Equality is indeed © ‘desirable, but not when it is purchaseil iat the cost of freedom, and man being“ become equal because all are the | BISHOP SHEEN “has “aividea’ ~ tbe capttalistic itself, 22°72" ” e idea of equality, in erated; there is.no freedom to for propaganda backed up by terror de- > termines what one shall . think, and what one shail do. . Despite: the” feet’ that communism. condemns “capitalism, it ignores the t features and . rves only its worst. "one of the worst Yeatures of _ capitalism ’was its indl+ vidual selfishness; copi- munism transforms indi« vidual selfishness into collective. selfishness. I¢ claims that it hates cap- italism and yet it imports FB to build up a’ ccaptt _gystéem In Ru - , It hates only because i ee Capitalism in its worst forge tabi ~,exercise only economic rights er the employe; but under communism not only - economic rights but even juridical rights are exercised over the worker, for com: . munism decides where he shall work and when he shall work, at what salary he -will work, that he shall not strike, that ‘he shall not have a minimum wage and that if he does not work where he is thing outside of man instead of some- -. t0ld to work, the words “disorganizer of labor” “will be written across his passport. The result is that man under communism simply becomes a chattel, Wealth,is held in common under communism, but administration Is not ’ common.- It is only natural therefore ‘what he is, there’ is no other way to. - ‘achieve it. There is no freedom to ase !: Sert” personality, for man is absorbed‘. ‘Into the State very much in the fashion that a drop of water is absorbed intoa | ““glass of wine; there {s no freedom to? own p operty, for the State Is the sole ° “employes nd reserves for itself the jzight of exploitation; there is no frees: He Coprright, 195%, by The Goorre Matthey a6cas ‘6 0 NOV 22 1957 ao =. Communism purchases equality at Qe for everyone tq wish'to become an ad- ministrator in ordér that he might: di- “vide for himself the cholce. spoils. It ‘is one thing to ask\a thousand boys fo - put all of théir marbles’ into ‘a barrel ‘and it is quite another thing to be eure *. that the ten boys who were picked out “to divide the marbles will equally dis- tribute them among the 990. .Where . find the economic eunuchs who will be. "go freé from the passion both of wealth ‘ and power that all will receive: equally? eg ag Communism is not the answer.’ si ‘specialists in capitalism ..« Trotter ________ Nease _—_____- b 4 Tele. Room Holloman Gandy vl 6339-4 NOT RECCROEU (138 NOV 26 195% Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Journa!- 4| American ' N. Y. Mirror, N. Y. Daily News N. Y. Times Daily Worker The Worker _ New Leader Date _NOV 9 1957 °