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THE DULL WORLD OF COMMUNISM

ommunist ideology has produced a noticeably conser-
vative, rigid, colorless society. To understand this, one
needs only recall Communists' attitude toward their
own citizens. As stressed earlier, the materialist philo-
C sophy at the root of Communism sees a human being
as composed only of matter. It denies the existence of a human soul or
spirit, claiming that human consciousness is nothing more than a pro-
duct of "matter in motion." To the materialist, therefore, human beings
are only organic machines. All their thoughts and feelings are deemed to
be the results of chemical reactions happening within the machine.
In other words, materialists believe that the cells and the atoms
composing us have consciousness, the ability to think, see and hear, take
pleasure in beauty, and feel sorrow when confronted with bad experi-
ences. If you asked these people if an atom can think, they would cer-
tainly say no, but they do maintain such an irrational claim as “thinking
ability arises when some atoms come together to form the brain.”
Moreover, Marxist ideology supposes that all of human culture and
consciousness is materially based. A According to Communist thinking,
no independent consciousness exists apart from the material world
around us. On the contrary, human consciousness is experienced com-
pletely within the world of matter. Marx claimed that, "It is not the con-
sciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their