66 INVESTIGATION OF COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA q i
cant 1n number as compared with those to-day affiliated with the . l
Communist Party 1n the Umted States. All the communists in the 1
United States expect to do IS to collect into their organizations 1 ,
enough fanatical, desperate men and women to strike at strategic 1
pomtsgsirgch points as _they mention in their pronunciamentos as i
aggutnaxiiéegé aligigplgnaugurate a reign of terrorism and bring I INDIVIDUAL VIEWS OF JOHN E. NELSON "
1. to which they often refer in their literature as a " dictatorship of ` EARLY REvoLU·r1oNAR1rs AND THEIR A1Ms
I It is self-evident that the communists and their sympathizers have I 4 A
V oplyhone real object in view, not to obtain control of the Government i From Plato to the present, every age has had its intransigeants. .
gg S goggiilgil lglijl;-*5 l;l:§0i;glgSg§1¢§€;1£uL}a1?d)rlegal Cpolitipal methggg, girly %n1g1e3lChrisfi{)1n {era aigagonipts to estalplished orcler appearled.
— _ _ , ·_ ce an vio ence in e e ie ia " i er an e ua it are t e essentia ri its t at
g;1l$€Ii t9-Ed rllllhall Oghetf Iilatlons of a, “ soviet socialist repub1ic," y many in his original and, primitqive pgrfection receiVed_ fI‘0§1 Ilatllfe.
éhc §€m_in<0·S of th 659   S 3Ve been repeatedly substantiated at y Froperty destroyed equality; governments a11_d_1‘el1g1pI1 deStI‘0yed
- Au YE ¤,h_ h_ e Comml ee. l . liberty; therefore to reinstate man 1I1’l11S.OI'1g1ll21l rwhts, it Was
_ 0, w 1C 1S respectfully submitted. ' y " necessary to destroy all religions, all civil societies, and aIl property?
of HADIILTON Frsrr, J;-,, Oha57·m(m_ A It was during the latter part of the eighteenth century, with its
I CARL G. BAoHMANN, i industrial revolution and consequent concentration of population in V
j EDWARD E. Esmcx. _   l the industrial centers, that the age-old problem of the " one against
I ROBERT S. HALL, `  l the many " took on increased emphasis, and radicalism, as we now
j _ , understand the term, was conceived and began its gradual develop-
* ment.
One of the greatest of the early revolutionaries was Dr. Adam
Weishaupt, a professor of law in a Bavarian college. At the age of
28 years, in 177 6, he organized the order of the illuminati, dedicated
{ to the destruction of Christianity and all existing governments.
7 Weishaupt was, perhaps, the first great exponent of world revolu-
tion. Reduced to a simple formula, the aims of his society may be
. ' summarized under six points, or " abolitions ": A
ll 1. Abolition of monarchy and all ordered government.
f ,     ggolition 0; pigvaupe property.
. 1 1OH O 1X1 GFI 3.11 9.
i jl 4. Abglition of patriotisxfi.
. ~ 5. Abolition of the family (i. e., of marriage and all orthodox morality,
and the institution of the communal education of children).
Y p i 6. Abolition of all religion. .
` V Q The order spread rapidly through France, Italy, and Germany.
H Eventually exposed and outlawed, the remnants of the order went
· >. underground to form the inner circle of an international revolu-
i ` r‘ tionaiy movement.
. Q It is interesting to note that while VVeishaupt and his followers
I   were formulating these subversive principles, George lVashington
I .» • and our forefathers were struggling for in ependence and formulat-
ing those noble and constructive principles of representative gov-
· ernment and individual liberty upon which our Constitution rests.
The struggle which we face to—day is between these two systems of
~. _1 . philosophy and ideology, born at the same time, but diametrically
y ,   antagonistic and mutually exclusive.
THE FRENCH REvoLUT10N
' I The J acobin Club, originating in 1789, during the French Revolu-
` I tion and responsible fo1· much of its reign of terror, was organized
{ by many who had been afliliated with the Illuminati. One of its