JUNE 17, 1959. Resolved, That the staff study entitled "Contradictions of Communism" be approved as a report of the Internal Security Subcommittee to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and that it be printed.

JAMES O. EASTLAND, Chairman.
THOMAS J. DODD, Vice Chairman.
OLIN D. JOHNSTON.

JOHN L. MCCLELLAN.

SAM J. ERVIN.

ROMAN L. HRUSKA.

EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN.
KENNETH B. KEATING.

Dated June 22, 1959.

III

CONTRADICTIONS OF COMMUNISM

"Contradictions of Communism" is intended to serve as a preliminary guide to the conflicting nature and inconsistencies of the dogma of Marxism-Leninism, under which we include the teachings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, his collaborator, V. I. Lenin, Joseph Stalin, his disciple, and Nikita S. Khrushchev, present Soviet Premier. Since the world struggle between communism and the free world is being fought considerably in the realm of ideas, it is essential that Communist concepts be effectively challenged if we are to survive.

As a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee is interested in legislation which will counteract the forces of communism. In order to formulate such legislation intelligently, it is necessary to begin with a knowledge of Communist fundamentals, especially its inner contradictions.

The study will seek to break through the ideological barrier which the Communists have erected in various ways against those who would challenge the soundness of their doctrine. They have often relied upon sheer audacity to terrorize and paralyze their critics. In fact, from the time of the pronouncement of the "Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848 to the present, the Communists have adhered to Danton's famous maxim, "de l'audace, de l'audace, encore de l'audace!" (audacity, audacity, still more audacity). Both Engels and V. I. Lenin swore by it. Although they represented but a mere handful of Communists at the time, Marx and Engels, in their "Manifesto," did not hesitate to warn "the ruling classes [to] tremble at a Communist revolution." " Marx even threatened his enemies with the "mailed fist of the people," whom he had no claim to represent, and with "revolutionary terror," which he had no power to invoke.

The Communists have hammered home their propaganda with a fanaticism and intolerance calculated to overwhelm their opponents. With unshakable self-assurance, they have boasted about the complete infallibility of their prognostications and have in fact endowed their doctrines with a quality of historical inevitability and scientific validity. Year after year they have pounded on the same themes with a persistence aimed at wearing down all resistance. They have appropriated to themselves a monopoly of humanitarian aims and principles. At the same time they have not hesitated to resort to the vilest slanders and even physical violence to intimidate and overpower their antagonists. Constantly on the offensive, they have not allowed their opponents a moment's respite. It is indeed high time that Communist spiritual terrorism is effectively challenged by the forces of the free world,

V. I. Lenin, "Can Bolsheviks Retain State Power" (October 1917), "Selected Works" (International Publishers, New York, 1943), vol. VI, pp. 291, 292. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "Manifesto of the Communist Party" (International Publishers, New York, 1932). Karl Marx, "Collected Works" (in German), pt. 1, vol. 7, pp. 423 and 442.