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EE OC aly & Comvany, Ine... the sublect ste an: “TT a not ‘and was not a) b+] pT ee mesw sg aay Sey ec -— = ——_— ae See a ee Communist. ‘I do not believe in the dogma of inevitable revolu- tion in order to right economic wrong. On the other hand, I believed and still believe KARL MARX was one of the greatest men of modern times and that he put his finger squarely upon our difficulties when he said that economie foundations, the way in which men earn their living, are the determining factors in the development of civilization and the basic pattern of culture”. On page 320 of the same book, the subject states, in referring to the basic negro creed: hwe believe in the ultimate triumph of some form of Socialism the world over; that is, common ownership and control of the means of pro- duction and equality of incom". The "New York Times", New York daily newspaper, of June 27, 1947, page 11, columns 4, 5 and 6, carried an erticle with the caption "DuBOIS Declapes, Socialism eae Haven", This article states that"Dr. W.E.B,.“DuBOIS, editor and educator and one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, told 1,000 delegates this morning that Socialiam and the United Nations were the only hope for the backward races of the world with which, he said, the American negro is by economic position closely allied". a :: known reliability, advised on June 5, 197 that DuBOIS was to be a speaker at a public meeting under the auspices of "Mainstream", to be held at Manhattan Center, 311 West 34th Street, New York city, on June 11, 1947. . The Californie Committee on Un-American Activities, ‘report of 1947, page 106, and report of 1948, page 340, stated that "Meinstream" was a Marxist quarterly leanched by the Communist Party in January 1947 for the avowed purpose of stimulating "Marxist thinking in literature and the creative arts", It later merged with "New Masses", the weekly journalistic yoice of the Communist Party, and is often referred to as "Masses and Mainstream" advised on June = 7: that DuBOIS was suggested by og oe as the "keynoter" et a meeting of the Pregressive —5=