Page 22 - Communism in Ambush

Clergy are lined up for execution in front of a firing squad of Paris Communards.

time when France was weakened after losing the Franco-Prussian War.
For months, directors of the Commune administered the city.
Widespread assaults were organized against religious centers and the
clergy.)
Finally, despite their differences, both capitalists and Communists
found common ground in their opposition to religion, and for that oppo-
sition, they found great support in Darwinism. For this reason,
Communists believe that before the revolution can occur, a society must
first become capitalist. To that end, they allow capitalism, i.e. the bour-
geoisie, to flourish, which they consider as a stepping stone for commu-
nism in that society.
As the capitalist mentality grows and becomes widespread -in which
Darwinist propaganda plays a vital role- society will initially be made to
abandon their religion and then people will lose all their spiritual val-
ues, ethical sentiments, and the spirit of unity, solidarity, and love
among them. As a result, beginning to see each other as opponents, or
further yet, as enemies and losing the ability to act in concert, societies
will be dragged into discord, conflict and terrorism, utterly laying the
groundwork communism seeks to exploit.
Vladimir İ. Lenin, leader of the Russian Revolution, expounds on this
principle of Marxism as follows: