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Communists to Open School for Revolution * Philosophy of Violence and Atheism to be Propagated
War Provides the Ideal Revolutionary ottnenting Civil 'War
Situation POr A school for the training of young Communists in methods for the violent overthrow of the State and for the propaganda of atheism is to be opened in Melbourne. At a meeting held at the Princess Theatre recently to commemorate the nineteenth anniversary of the death of Lenin, the Communist leader, an appeal was made by the chairman for subscriptions to a fund to establish a Lenin Memorial School to promulgate MarxistsLeninist philosophy. ."Age, -
26/1/13.) The objective of the school, the report added, is to coach Communist cadres as organisers for the movement. It is intended to obtain a site for the building near Melbourne. Though Communists in their writings and speeches are, at the present stage, discreetly reticent when asked whether they still stand by the violently revolutionary doctrine of Lenin and his insistence on the inculcation of atheism, violent revolution and the propaganda of atheism are emphasised clearly in his teaching as the very A.B.C. of the Communist programme. We welcome, all the same, the up -to-
date declaration by Communists that they aim to "promulgate Marxist-Leninist philosophy." This honesty is helpful. "The philosophy of the Communist Party," said the Communist publication, the "Workers' Weekly," Sydney .20/12/38), "is the philosophy of Marxism-Leninism-Dialetical Materialism. It excludes any interference by superIt, therefore, innatural agencies. cludes atheism." War, teaches Lenin, provides the ideal revolutionary situation without which a revolution is impossible. "The objective revolutionary situation created inevitably gives rise to reby war volutionary sentiments; it hardens and enlightens the best and most conscious proletarian. A sudden change in the .
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Lenin's Frankness Concerning Religion "The philosophic basis of Marxism is dialetic materialism . . which is absolutely atheistic and definitely hostile to religion." (Ibid. p. 16.) "Marxism is materialism. As such it is relentlessly opposed to religion .. . We must combat religion-that is the A.B.C. of all materialism, and, consequently, of Marxism." This, then, is the "Marxist-Leninist philosophy" which is to be inculcated in the training school to be opened near Melbourne by the Communist Party. .
mood of the masses becomes not only possible, but more and more probable. At any rate, only work in this direction deserves the name of Socialist work. The slogan that generalises and directs this work, and helps to unite and consolidate those who wish to aid the revolutionary struggle of the pro.
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letariat against its Government and its bourgeoisie, is the slogan of civil war." ("War and the Second International," pp. 53-4.) "The proletarian revolution is impossible without the forcible destruction of the bourgeois State machine." ("The Proletarian Revolution," p. 20.) Lenin quotes Engels with approval: "Revolution is an act in which one section of the population imposes its will upon the other by means of rifles, bayonets and guns, all of which are exceedingly authoritarian implements. And the victorious party is necessarily com-
pelled to maintain its rule by means of that fear which its arms inspire." As to religion, Lenin teaches: "All religious ideas are an unspeakable abomination." ("Lenin on Religion." p. 50.) "Our programme necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism." (Ibid. p. 14.)
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To be Celebrated This Year. It has been decided to celebrate this year the centenary of the first Mass on record as having been celebrated in Brisbane. That was by the Most Rev. Archbishop Polding, who landed in Brisbane on the Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians, May 24, 1843, and on the following Sunday in a temporary chapel offered up the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at which about 130 Catholics assisted. Father Therry was the first priest who visited the district of Moreton Bay, and that once only. There is no record of the date of his arrival, and it is scarcely likely that he would have celebrated Mass in the Brisbane of those days, which was only an incipient convict settlement. The exact dates of the centenary celebrations will be am nounced later.