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r¢ ore, dectted that the Young Comrade would have to die and his body * 0 have to be destroyed in order to save the movement. cute 7 The Young Comrade by that time sees his mistake and consents to being killed. He is shot and thrown into a lime pit where his bay is destroyed. The Four Agitators then return to their work which was successful. Between the various scenes of this play, the "Control Committee" indicates agreement with the action of the four agitators. In one instance they state, "He who fights for Communism mist be able to fight and not to sot ‘fight, to tell the truth and not to tell the truth, perform services and a, refuse to perform services, keep promises and fail to keep mromises, to meet a danger and to avoid danger, to be discernible and to be indiscernible. He - who fights for Comnuniam has only one virtue; that he fights for Cor-anism. 1 9 Leha spenmiWicie ay eB NS ® In other places throughout the play, the “Control Com-ittee" . ings The Praise of the U.8.S.R., of the Commmnist Party and of illegal 4s... work, They conclude the play with the following addressed to the four . agitators: "You aewad the teachings of the Classicists, the ABC of a Communism. To the uninformed you brought infomation about their situaticn, : to the oppressed you brought class consciousness. To the class conscious you brought the experience of revolution. The revolution is also cn the Pd march there, and the ranks of the fighters are organized there alsc, and re ‘ are in agreezent with you. Your report shows us how mich is necessry to _ transform the world; anger and temacity, knowledge and indignation, to strike quickly, to ponder deeply, cold patience, endless waiting, a grasp of individual detail and comprehension of the whole. We can only change reality when taught by reality." . In a letter dated May 12, 1950 at Berlin, which is published : along with the foregoing play and which is signed PY both EISLER and the ¥ Subject, the authors of “The Disciplimry leasure” defend tiic play and . explain their intention in writing it. This letter cbjects to censorship : of the “Disciplinary Measure" before its presentation. It specifically a calls "The Disciplinary Measure” an educational pley and suggests that “ its presentation be removed from all influences. a vs This letter further suggests that the play be presented by ¥ those for whom it was intended, and who alone have use for thea: Workers ’ choruses, groups of amateur players, school choruses, school orchestras. In @ note published together with the play, it is stated that "the players (singers and actors) have the task of teaching while they -- : This note further states: “However, attexpts should not be mide 3= |t to derive recipes for political action from "The Disciplinary Keasure™% ; without a knowledge of the ABC of dialectic materialism. What Lenin said ; about morality applies to the several ethical concepts such as Justice,= * Freedom, Fuxanity, eto., which appear in the play: ‘ke draw our moral philosophy from the interest of the proletarian class struggle.'*