They Hound the Idealists

Abstract

Almost every public utterance, every article and broadcast today, is preceded by a statement of the speaker's implacable hatred of communism. What is communism? The dictionary says it is the system or theory which upholds the absorption of all proprietary rights in the common interest; the doctrine of the community of property. It is a great ideal; communism per se embraces everything that is good and noble.

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