Marxism, Morality and Our Youth by James D. Bales
I T is A c o m m o n human tendency to judge other peo ple by ourselves. If we can be bought, we tend to think that everyone has a price. In dealing with Com munism we have overlooked the fact that we tend to judge people not only by our weaknesses but also by our strong points. If we would not stoop to certain deeds, we find it difficult to believe anyone else would. We do not want to conquer the world; so we find it difficult to believe that other people are at work con quering the world and that they intend to conquer us. We do not have the conspiratorial mind, so we find it difficult to believe that others do. However, if we stop and think we should realize that we cannot draw a valid conclusion concerning another person simply by observing the fact that he possesses all the physical features which we possess and that he, too, can smile. How many of the “ ten most wanted men” by the FBI look like criminals? We cannot understand the Communist unless we
understand his view of morality. Decent people will find it almost impossible to believe the truth about the Communists unless they know their code of conduct. The Communist Manifesto maintains that morality is but a means whereby a class protects, justifies and perpetuates its selfish class interests. Morality is a mask behind which lurks in ambush the interests of the ruling class.1 This concept of morality was emphasized by Lenin in a speech before the Young Communist Leagues of Russia, October 2, 1920: In what sense do we repudiate ethics and moral ity? In the sense in which it is preached by the bourgeoisie, who derived. ethics from God’s com mandments. We, of course, say that we do not believe in God, and that we know perfectly well that the clergy, the landlords and the bourgeoisie spoke in the name of God in pursuit o f their own
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