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0-29 (Rev. 9-7-56) Fulton LIBERATION began with the idea of liberty, but berty understood as freedom from something rather than freedom for something. Com- ; munism began with the idea of equality, in which it was _ hoped to m&ke everyone happy by establishing a class- “Jess Society. Communism was not so much concerned with : political equality won by which all men were made equal before the law, but rather with economic equality which was not yet won. . The argument of the com- munists was as follows: The reason there are inequalities in the economic order is be- cause of private property. By its very nature, private prop- erty is the basis of exploita- tion, communism argues. Ii has built up a system in | which one man works for other for wages, and as a sult, has divided society into two classes: the exploiting class, and the exploited class. The way, therefore, to do away with all inequalities is to do away with private prop- erty by putting all productive rivate property into the ands of the state; then all become equal because all are the servants of the state. Such a solution attributes all the wrongs in the social order to something outside of something inside, namely, to private pro} instead avarice and injustice. But “oO. Bishop Sheen Writes: Communism 7 Buys Equality at. Cost of Freedom ~ an INFORM, defects In the cormunistic scheme of equality. . who were picked ~. vide the marbles wiil equally TEN: fo llON Con, “ft INO nears AIN, cota an PE gga sitiey ee ; Holloman @ thousand boys to~put~all Gandy their marbles into a barrel i and it is quite another thing to be gure that the ten boys out to di- distribute them among the 990. Where find the economic g [Ere who will be so free A from passion both of wealth, and power that all will re ceive equally? Communism | is not the answer. . . (COMMUNISM ‘purchases. uality at cost of free- dom. Equality is indeed de- sirable, but not when it is purchased at the cost of free- dom, and man being what he is, there is no other way to achieve it, There is no dom to assert personality, for man is absorbed into the state very much in fashion that a drop of water is absorbed into a glass of wine; there is no freedom to own property, for the state is the sole employer and re- serves for itself the right of exploitation; there is no dom of religion, for that is equivalent to admitting that God is above the party; th ig no freedom to dissent Utically, are Freedom thus becomes identified with the will -of the party, which in Russia represents only 144% of the ulation. o~ a : WEALTH is held in com- mon with communism, but administration ‘snot common. It fs only natural therefore for everyone to of ‘wish to become an adminis- trator in order that he might divide for himself the choice spoils. It is one thing-toask apart from this general ob- / sbreatiorvthere are two great BQNOV 26 a 1357p) the [: ere B [Jd- 4 = NOT RECORDED M0 NOV26/937 |” — — Was Post and Times Herald : on Wash. News — 1 a a Wash. Star : N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Journal-. American N. Y. Mirror -. N. Y. Daily News N. Y. Times Daily Worker The Worker — New Leader H Date