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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1948
The Editorial Page
The Spectre Haunting Europe
"A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism." With this dramatic beginning, Karl Mark and Friedrich Engels, in their "Communist Manifesto," challenged the existing social and political arrangement of a century ago. The echoes have reverberated down the years, and today Communist forces' stand militantly opposed to our social and
political structure. The Manifesto's fundamental proposition implies revolutionary methods. Marx reasoned that the political and intellectual history of an epoch is based upon the prevailing economic and social organization of that epoch, and, consequently, class struggles between the rulers and the oppressed have marked the history of mankind since the primitive days of common ownership. "The history of these class struggles," Engels wrote, "forms a series of evolution in which . . . a stage has been reached where the exploited and oppressed class (the roteariat) cannot attain its emancipation from the . . . ruling class (the bourgeoisie) without, at the same time, once and for all, emanating society at large from all exploitation, oppression, class-disaction, and class-struggles."
ngels' Definition
In 1888, Engels defined the difference between socialism, another growing ideology, and Communism. He labeled socialism a middle-class movement and Communism a working-class movement. He wrote further that "whatever portion of the working class had become convinced of the insufficiency of mere political revolutions, and had proclaimed the necessity of a total social change, that portion then called itself Communist." In other words, "a total social change," lies the repudiation of capitalism and any other prevailing system. Engels' definition also implies the elimination of the middle class.
When Lenin came to power, the first signs of a departure from the principles of Marx and Engels became evident. A dictatorship of the proletariat became a dictatorship of the intellectual, Lenin himself. Though the peasants seized the land and deposed the bourgeoisie land owners, Lenin saw them as incapable of managing themselves. His policies, advanced in the name of Communism, departed sharply from the avowed ends of the Manifesto.
Stalin Comes To Power
In 1922, Stalin became secretary of the party and, as such, Lenin's successor. In the years between 1924 and World War II, Stalin proclaimed Russia's adherence to Communism but his policies actually repudiated some ideas expressed in the Manifesto. He allowed the bourgeoisie to revive under rigid control. An absolute dictatorship, not of the proletariat, but of a favored minority arose. Stalin explained his actions
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by stating that if Communism is to remain alive and vital, it must adapt itself to existing conditions.
The Soviets have openly announced themselves as opposed to capitalist aid to Western Europe and elsewhere in the world. Communist parties have denounced the Western capitalists and the Western socialists as reactionary and imperialistic. In opposing the prevailing systems, Stalin is, in part, living up to Engels' definition of a Communist. What course Russia will follow remains shrouded by the future—Robert C. Snyder.
KU Plans Program With KC Schools
A/ H. Turney, director of the guidance bureau, and Gerald Pearson, director of extension classes, conferred with Kansas City, Mo., public school officials recently. O. Ulyssy director of vocational education in Kansas City, and H. W. Dayler, director of the distributive education program, agreed to a co-operative program between the Kansas City public schools and the University.
Under the plan, 40 teachers from Kansas City will enroll in a survey course at the University to determine employment opportunities for non-college youth.
At present Mr. Daylor is working with employers in the Kansas City area in an effort to combine classes and employment.
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