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Tn what sense do we deny ethics, morals? Tn the sense in which they are preached by the bourgeoisie, which deduces these morals fram fiod's commandments. Of course, we say that we do not believe in God. We know perfectly well that the clergy, the landlords, and the bourgeoisie all claimed to speak in the inane of God, in order to protect their own interests as exploiters. Or, instead of deducing their 3 ethics from the comandsents of morality, froa the comanduents of God, they iq , deduced them from idealistic or sent-idealistic phrases which in substance were always very sinilar to divine comantinents. "We deny all morality taken from superiusen or non-class concep= tions. We say that this is a deception, a swindle, a befogging of the minds _ of the workers and peasants in the interests of the landlords and capitalists, : Wo say that our morality 1s wholly subordinated to the intersets of the class-struggle of the proletariat. We deduce our morality from the —= facts and needs of the clase-etrugzgle of the proletariat. ‘The old society was based on the oppressica of all the wriers ~~ and peasants by the landlords and capitalists, We had to destroy this Aax socisty. We had to overthrow these landowmers and capitalists. But to do ~wv this, organisation was nscessary. God could not create such organisation. a RELIGION’ by Ve I. Lenin Bod Tetereattonsd Publishers = Copyright 1933 : ~ Pages L? and 18 Ven ae ae em Sa ines ante I OREN RN cetacean 8 eee $4 - 34 2 Yove emer CEURE