Show Indiscriminate Labelling Not Compatible With Democracy By Paul Hammond Other than Senator there seem to be a great many in the country who are quite sincere in their They are people who see a great threat to the institutions of democracy from the infiltration of communists into key and hence waste no to those suspected of In our great concern to reduce this threat we are being far less democratic than most communists that we By our indiscriminate application of the term to anyone who might have individualistic we are showing a reckless disregard for the protection of human dignity and the fundamental proposition upon which democracy is We object to communists because of three of their First they would impose their economics and political system on a people of their they are willing to use any regardless of how to their and their allegiance is not to this country to a foreign These principles are diametrically opposed to our ideas of fair self and good hence we are justified in opposing those who accept But because communists believe in a communistic economic it does not follow that all people who want to see the elimination of private ownership are Often such people are just as loy- al Americans as the best of We are no more justified in I opposing them because of the economic theory of communism that they than we are justified in discriminating against new-dealers or for it is not the belief in economic communism that we but the unscrupulous means that are used to achieve in our we seldom distinguish between the and the In in our zeal to eliminate the threat of the we are ready to call just about anyone a regardless of the harm it may do to his Naturally those who seem so similar to the the ones who believe in communism as the best economic or even people who are just more liberal tEan the rest of are all labeled If they belong to any no matter how incongruous the purpose of that group may be to it becomes a organization and should be purged out of we believe that Russian communism is a threat to our and hence that we must effectively expose all Russian then we more careful whom we brand as To be it is our duty to expose those who work for the downfall of our when we use the accusation of communist so the charge becomes less and the people get to ignore not only the significance of such a but also the seriousness of the entire communist Our objection to Marxist-communism is in its disregard for the his rights and we are certainly not in position to criticise the inhumane principles upon which communism is based if we demonstrate the same disregard for the value of the We must realize the tremendous responsibility we are assuming in questioning the reputation and integrity of a We must be but not at tho expense of |