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0-26 (Rev. -7-56) : ct aaieaies ‘TBERATION began with the sdsa. Uberty,- but: Uberty understood -as dom from something rather than dom fof *domething. - Communism gan with the idea of equality, in ome it was hoped to make everyon' Shappy “by ¢stablishing ‘a ‘elassiess society. Commu- Miism was not so much ncerned with political equality won py which all men were made equal be- jfore the law, but rather ;with “economic equality hich was not yet won. ‘The argument of ‘the - mmunists was as fol- - The reason. there Mequalities in the economic orderds because. f private property, By its ‘very nature, private prop- terty. is fee bas explol- “tath unism (Brgues. It Shes built up a ‘system in- which one man ~ “works for another for wages, and as-a restlt,"has divided Boclety’ into ' two classes: the exploiting @lass, and the exploited class. The way, , ‘therefore, to do away with all inequall- les is to do away with private property _ putting all productive private prop- erty into the hands of the State; then ~ ‘all become equal because all are the servants of the State. ~ . - Such ‘@ solution attributes ‘a the Swrongs in the social order to some- thing outside of man instead of 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’ of equality. These de-, £° Communism purchases equality at ; ‘the cost of freedom. Equality is indeed ‘desirable, but not when it {s purchased dat the cost of freedom, and man being ‘what he is, there'is no other way to. wpchieve it. There is no freedom to as- iéert personality, for man is absorbed ‘nto the State very much in the fashion ° "shat a drop, of water {s absorbed into a “glass of wine; there is no freedom to wn property, for the State is the sole, emplivar a d nd reserves for itself the Eight of exploitation H BISHOP SHEEN , BONOV 22°57 ey ~ politically, for no rival parties are tol- erated; there is-no freedom to for. propaganda packed up by terror di termines what one shall ‘think, and what one shail do. "Despite the fect “that communism condemns capitadism, it ignores the st features and pre- “serves only its worst. Ohé of the worst teatures df munism transforms indi+ vidual selfishness into collective. selfishness.. It claims that it hates cap- italism and yet it imports ‘specialists in capitalism . to build up's aed system in shes ny peceuse Bf be capltatistic itself, .:- 7). |” Capitalism in its worst a -exercise only economic rights over Sis 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 afd 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 told 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 natura} therefore for everyone tq wish'to become an’ ministrator in order that he might di- “vide for himself the choice.spoils. It is one thing to ask a thousand, 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 fipd the economic eunuchs who will be. 60 freé from the passion both of wealth and power that all will receive equally? Communism is not the answer, <4 Cepreight, 1057, by Trotter Tele. Room Holloman Gandy (ee We4-C331~4 NOT RECCOROEU BB NOV 26 195% Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Journa!-. al American ' N. Y. Mirror N. Y. Daily News N.Y. Times Daily Worker The Worker — New Leader Date NOV 9 1957 _ cr Nease —____—