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Our civilization is in peril because so many eager and uncritical minds, beguiled by the communist ideal, instead of being trained in virtue, are trained to renounce all moral standards in the service of their ideal, cast out truth, mercy, justice…
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Those consecrating themselves to communism must not only cast out truth, mercy, justice, and personal honor, but must undergo a sickening discipline in lies, cruelty, crime, and self-abasement. They must endorse such "Leninist" maxims as these: "We do not believe in external principles of morality. Communist morality is identical with the fight to strengthen the dictatorship of the proletariat." Also "We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, lawbreaking, withholding and concealing truth." And "We can and must write ... in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, scorn and the like toward those of differing opinion." This doctrine of immorality on principle, invented by Marx, brought into focus by Lenin, and carried into limitless action by Stalin, is playing a major role in the disintegration of our Graeco-Christian civilization. Many who go in for communism in a mood of high-minded revolt against lesser evils come to a point where they realize this fact and apprehend its consequences with horror. But by that time they are consecrated; they are fixed firm. Their whole life-pattern-daily bread and daily nutriment of esteem-is conditioned upon their staying firm. They lack the force of character, the clarity of mind, the self-reliance, the pure and sheer daring, to back out and be called a renegade.
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