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Teen-agers -- many from affluent homes -- turn beatniks
and hippies because they see NO HOPE for the future. There is no
longer PURPOSE. It is now possible to erase all life from this
earth. They see NO FUTURE, but more wars, and, perhaps, human
extinction.
THAT IS THE SOIL THAT SPAWNED COMMUNISM. Communism is the
VULTURE of decadent, dying politics, religion, and society.
Whittaker Chambers explained WHY educated, intelligent
people become Communists: "It is" he says, "a simple statement of
Karl Marx, further simplified for handy use: 'Philosophers have
explained the world; it is necessary to change the world.'"
And there -- when I read it -- was the answer!
These men are intelligent enough to know SOMETHING IS
FATALLY WRONG with the world! They were not perceptive enough to
recognize that Communism could never SAVE the world -- but ONLY
ENSLAVE IT!
One of America's most lucid, clever writers is Philip
Wylie. He is fluent in picturing a word's-eye view of WHAT'S WRONG
in the world. But he doesn't offer the solution. Like the
philosophers, he explains the world -- but offers no way to CHANGE
the world.
Communism does offer a program to CHANGE the world. But
not the kind of change Americans and Europeans -- as a whole --
want. But Communism appears to those who "fall" for it as the ONLY
straw they can grasp. It offers THEM a chance to help CHANGE THE
WORLD. They know it needs changing. Communism is the WRONG way to
change it -- but they don't see that. It's the ONLY way they know
-- the only one offered them. THAT EXPLAINS WHY COMMUNISTS ARE SO
DEDICATED -- willing even to sacrifice career, fortune -- even
their lives -- TO HAVE A PART IN CHANGING THE WORLD!
They become dedicated. They submit to military-like
discipline.
As Dr. Hoeh points out, "Communism appeals to faith --
faith in the power of MAN to change the world!" He continues:
"What does the United States send the world to counter this
revolutionary faith? Not a more powerful or righteous faith, but
GUNS and MONEY!
"The Soviet Union knows that the United States cannot
supply the world's desperate millions with enough food. ...But the
only Power that the United States could provide the world to defeat
Communism -- the strength of a more powerful FAITH than Communism
-- that faith America does not have!
"U.S. political leaders do not understand the power of
faith in world affairs. Faith in an idea, the Communistic idea of
the NEW MAN, is slowly winning against the bullets and feeble
leadership of the West."