From: W. Cleon Skousen, “The Naked Communist, Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom”, pp. 386-8.
[sic] “The four major Communist basic beliefs – the heart and soul of dialectical materialism that pretend to provide a complete explanation for the whole universe – the reasoning which gives an excuse to the Communist for her revolutionary violence and amoral conduct:
- Everything is a product of accumulated accident. There is no design. There is no law. There is no God. There is only the force of nature which is right, good and natural.
- Human beings are only graduated beasts and therefore human life is no more sacred than that of an insect or an animal.
- There is no such thing as innate right or wrong. The ends justify the means. Ethics and morals are superficial and fraudulent. Communist morality is whatever serves the struggle.
- All religious superstition must be overthrown so people become fully conscious of revolutionary spirit and able to steal or kill when leaders command.”
Obviously, Communist beliefs cannot coexist with the American Constitution, cannot coexist with the fundamental values written into the Declaration of Independence, deeply offend the religious beliefs of the great majority of Americans, and deeply offend the civil, criminal, and common law principles of justice in American law and Western Civilization. An American Communist Party is a contradiction in terms. There is no reconciliation possible between the two systems.
Our Government is instituted among Men who derive their just power from the consent of the governed, and who rely upon the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God that entitle us to the self-evident truths that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights – among them [not limited to] life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The Communist disputes the metaphysical existence of God, and upon that belief – for all metaphysical statements are beliefs – constructs a justified amoral system of human domination.
We don’t need to rely on supernatural vision into the metaphysical realm to answer the question of the existence of God to assess the fundamental value of Western Civilization vs. Communism. We have centuries of recorded history under American law [Western Civilization] and Communist dictatorships to dispositively assess the two systems.
Each have produced drastically different outcomes in elevating human conditions out of poverty, out of slavery, out of disease, out of ignorance, and out of misery.
By any measure, Communism fails its people – and not because it’s not done right. It fails because it replaces the consent-based modality of human relations with a suppression-based law of the jungle.
People do more, create more, accomplish more, and are much happier, in the exercise of their free will, than when they take orders from the muzzle of a gun.
That generations of young Americans have been publicly educated to ignore these fundamental truths may be the greatest tragedy of our time.