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4 In what sense do we deny ethics, morals? In the sense in which they are preached ty the bourgeoisie, which deduces these morals from Sod's commandments. Of course, we say that we do not believe in God. We know perfectly well that the clergy, the landlords, and the bourgeolale all claimed to speak in the nane of God, in order to protect their own interests as exploiters. Or, instead of deducing their C ethics from the comandsents of morality, froa the cocmandments of dod, they . . deduced thes from idealistic or seni-idealistic phrases which in substance _ were always very sinilar to divine comnantinents | We deny all morality taken from superhucan or non-class concep= tions. We say that this is a deceptiin, a swindle, a befogging of the minds of the workers and peasants in the interests of the landlords and capitalists. ye 7% "We aay that our morality is wholly subordinated to the interests 7 of the clase~struggle of the proletariat. We deduce cur morality froa the = facts and needs of the clase-struggle of the proletartat. The old society was based on the oppression of all the wriers ‘and peasants by the landlords and capitalists, We had to destroy this AN . accisty. We had to overthrow these landomers and capitalists. But to do a, this, orgenisation was necessary. God could not create such organization. St PRELIGION® ty Ve I. Tectia 7 Yolune 7 ~ Fo ; Yaternational Publishers = Copyright 1933 ; - | Pages uy and 18 binant NaS Neen iE er Re a ty Ba i et a Rae See oF Pe en Were. ie ae Wee ee - ws. ; Gy . ss _ q, . > . V4 , rar) anes CEURE.