Page 186 - Communism in Ambush

THE STEALTHY TACTIC OF DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM:
ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK

Those who think that Communism collapsed a few years ago and is no
longer a danger today are very mistaken. In accordance with its doctrine of
Dialectical Materialism, Communism has only taken a tactical retreat.
According to Lenin's book, One Step Forward; Two Steps Back, sometimes
Communists must take a few steps backwards and appear to be retreating
from their goals in order to achieve them. Chinese school children are taught
the "dialectical way of walking"— two steps back, three steps forward.
One concrete example of this is Communist thinking about the family.
According to Karl Marx, founder of Dialectical Materialism, the institution
of the family must be abolished in order to achieve Communism. In the
Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels wrote, "Abolition of the family!
Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the commu-
1
nists." and then proceeded to explain their own reasons why the family
must be abolished. They proposed that the "bourgeois family" is dependent
on capital and private gain, and that when these were removed (that is, after
the Communist revolution), the family would disappear too. The family,
they claimed, would vanish as a matter of course when its complement van-
ishes.
In his book Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State,
Friedrich Engels tried to show that in the first period of human history, the
family did not exist but appeared only later, as an artificial institution for
purposes of exploitation. According to this philosophy of Engels, when the
Communist revolution came, the family, along with the state and private
property, would disappear.
To achieve these goals, Communists follow the doctrine of Dialectical
Materialism. In order to abolish the family, they need a powerful state. But
for a state to be strong, first the family institution must be strong. By first
taking one step backward, they strengthen the family and the Communist
state grows strong. Then one stage later, it abolishes the family. 2
Communists are deceiving the people by proclaiming that Communism has
collapsed and that family ties have become stronger in Russia. This tactic of
Dialectical Materialism is stressed by Lenin in One Step Forward, Two Steps
Back. Communism has changed its color like a chameleon and is waiting,
while it prepares a suitable foundation.
For this reason, there must be a serious struggle in the realm of ideas
with Dialectical Materialism, Communism's founding philosophy, and with
Darwinism—its supposed "scientific" basis. Otherwise, Communism, now
waiting in ambush, will take its brutal and bloody steps forward.

1- Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, Moscow: Foreign
Languages Publishing House, 1957, pp. 79-80.
2- Dr.Fred C. Schwartz, You Can Trust the Communists to be Communists, Prentice Hall,
1960.