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College Station, Texas
Thursday, April 21, 1966
THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH
The Communist View
by Jim Earle
A Plan For America
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By LARRY R. JERDEN
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NEW PROGRAM OF THE COMMUNIST
PARTY, U.S.A., Gus Hall. Political Affairs Pub
lishers, Inc. 1966.
For the year 1966, the Communist Party,
U.S.A., has published a draft of their new pro
grams for a Socialist America.
Reading the draft in its paperback form
convinces the capitalist-American reader of one
thing from the outset: it is a sharply-written issue
of the same old Communist line.
It is a description of both the goals of the
party, and the means it intends to use to gain
these goals. There is much truth within its pages.
And great lies.
The Communist Party, U.S.A., describes itself
as “a revolutionary working-class party dedicated
to the struggle against the evils of capitalism as
they affect the lives of our people today and to
the struggle for a socialist U.S.A.”
They say that to fully realize America’s enorm
ous potential the people must wrest ownership of
its resources from the corporate power and use
them for the common good instead of private
profit.
But, they assure the reader, this will not be
the oppressive kind of Communism found in Rus
sia or eastern Europe. That was the result of the
extreme poverty existant in those countries when
Communism came to their rescue.
No, America will adapt Communism to its
own realities, traditions and institutions. It will
follow, “the American way to Socialism.”
The program pictures the current American
scene as one in such a crisis that only Commun
ism can lead the way to a brighter life. Point
ing to the American foreign policy that is “magni
fying the peril, instead of diminishing it,” the tech
nological revolution that is displacing workers, and
the Negro revolt, they say that a Communist
America would wipe all this away and give us a
land of peace and prosperity.
The root of all this trouble say the Com
munist, is the “power elite of corporation officers,
military commanders and political administrators.”
This triumvirate of exploitation and imperalism is
really one, with the same men switching roles at
various stages of their lives to insure that their
grip on America will remain solid.
Imperalism, to the Communist mind, is not the
same as it is to the capitalist. The followers of
Marx see imperalism as a stage of capitalism. The
stage, in fact, the U.S. is currently undergoing.
They say the US is fighting to preserve this
neoimperalism in Vietnam, and say that the supreme
fight for world peace today is “to halt U.S. aggres
sion, to end U.S. military occupation of South
Viet Nam so that the Vietnamese can decide their
own destiny.”
They see the U.S., not the Communists, as
the agressors in that little war, and say that the
U.S. interests there are purely imperalistic.
On the home front, they hold up the Ameri
can labor union as the true champion of liberty
in this nation, and envision a labor-Negro coali
tion as the agent which will eventually overthrow
the capitalists.
At this stage of the game, the Communist seek
to put on their white hats. Here they point out
that they are the true defenders of the Ameri
can Constitution. They seek to work totally within
the framework of the Constitution, making, of
course, suitable amendments to it.
They advocate an amendment which would
abolish the capitalist form of property. There is
a difference, the Communists say, between private
property and property which is being used by a
minority to exploit the majority. It is the latter
that will be confiscated. Just who will deter
mine which is oppressive isn’t made clear. The
government, more than likely, operating “deci
sively” under the “mandate” of the people.
In the end, the Communist Party, U.S.A.,
envisions a Socialist-democratic America, in which
all business larger than family size will be pub-
licly owned. The nation-wide and primary indus
tries will be owned by the Federal government, the
statewide and secondary industries by the states,
and the local industries owned by the counties and
cities. Farms and family sized businesses would
only be publicly owned at the present owners
request.
Of course the Communists realize that these
far-reaching goals may be years away, but they
do outline positive programs which will hasten
the day of “mankind’s bright horizon—Socialism.”
They call for Communists to join with others
to work within the two-party system when these
other groups are working for a cause with which
they agree. Thus, they join the Negro civil rights
movement, labor union struggles and demonstra
tions to end “imperalism” in Viet Nam.
But, they warn, they will not let themselves
be deluded by promises of the establishment,
whether it be the Democrats or Republicans.
Always they will work to strengthen their own
party and other of the Left.
In the end, they picture themselves as the
champions of the people and the supporters of the
Constitution. They also are cooperators with re
ligion for good and the true savior of mankind
from his present suffering at the hands of the
big industrialists.
The New Program of the Communist Party,
U.S.A., is available from New Orleans Publishers
& Distributors, 32 Union Square East, New York
City.
For anyone desiring to know about a party
that would transform our nation into a Socialist
utopia, it should be required reading.
Senior Pulls Caps
From Milk Bottles
Wire in the right hand, bottle in the left . . .
and Roy Langhoff is on the job.
The Corps tradition of putting the milk
bottle caps back inside the bottles has become
Langhoff’s biggest headache.
Langhoff, a senior Dairy Science major from
Yoakum, works at the A&M Creamery. Besides
his job of general handyman he is assigned the
task of removing the caps from the milk bottles.
“Yeah, one of my jobs is pulling out the caps,”
Langhoff said. He commented that he couldn’t
understand why people put them back in the bottles.
He writes it off as being some kind of tradition.
Langhoff said sometimes he feels they do it
just for meanness.
He estimates that he takes the caps out
of about 2,000 bottles daily. He said most of the
cap-filled bottles come from Duncan Dining Hall.
How do you get the caps out of the bottles?
“We have a little wire to go down in there
and pull them out.”
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for summer session loans.
National Defense Student Loans will be avail
able on a limited basis, announced Robert M. Logan,
Student Aid Director. Maximum loan is $500.
Application forms are available at the Student
Financial Aid Office, room 303, YMCA Building
from April 25-June 16, Logan noted.
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