"ATHEISTIC COMMUNISM" ENCYCLICAL LETTER PIUS # 2 OF 3

"ATHEISTIC COMMUNISM" ENCYCLICAL LETTER PIUS XI # 2 OF 3 

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Marxist Evolutionary Materialism

9. The doctrine of modern Communism, which is often concealed under the most seductive trappings, is in substance based on the principles of dialectical and historical materialism previously advocated by Marx, of which the theoreticians of Bolshevism claim to possess the only genuine interpretation.

   According to this doctrine there is in the world only one reality, matter, the blind forces of evolve into plant, animal, and man. Even human society is nothing but a phenomena and form of matter, evolving in the same way ... matter moves towards the final synthesis of a classless society. In such a doctrine as is evident, there is no room for the idea of God; there is no difference between matter and spirit, between soul and body; there is neither survival of soul after death nor any hope in a future life.

  
  Insisting on the dialectical aspect of their materialism, ... claim that the conflict which carries the world towards its final synthesis can be accelerated by man.... sharpen the antagonisms which arise between the various classes of society.... consequent violent hate and destruction takes on the aspect of a crusade for the progress of humanity... all other forces whatever, as long as they resist such systematic violence, must be annihilated as hostile to the human race.

Man and Family under Communism

10. Communism, moreover, strips man of his liberty, robs human personality of all its dignity, and removes all the moral restraints that check the eruptions of blind impulse. There is no recognition of any right of the individual in his relations to the collectivity; no natural right is recorded to human personality, which is a mere cog-wheel in the communist system. In man's relations with other individuals, besides, communists hold the principle of absolute equality, rejecting all hierarchy and divinely-constituted authority, including the authority of parents. ...

  
  Nor is the individual granted granted any property rights over material goods or the means of production, for inasmuch as these are the sources of further wealth, their possession would give one man power over another. Precisely on this score, all forms of private property must be eradicates, for they are at the origin of all economic enslavement.

11. Refusing to human life any sacred or spiritual character, such a doctrine logically makes of marriage and the family a purely artificial and civil institution, the outcome of a specific economic system. There exists no matrimony bond of a juridico-moral nature that is not subject to the whim of the individual or of the collectivity. Naturally, therefore, the notion of an indissoluble marriage-tie is scouted. Communism is particularly characterized by the rejection of any link that binds woman to the family and the home, and her emancipation is proclaimed as a basic principle. She is withdrawn from the family and the care of her children, to be thrust instead to public life and collective production under the same conditions as man. The care of the home and children then devolves upon the collectivity. Finally, the right of education is denied to parents, for it is conceived as the the exclusive prerogative of the community, ...

Communist Society

12. What would be the conditions of a human society based on such materialistic tenets? It would be a collectivity with no other hierarchy than that of the economic system. It would have only one mission: the production of material things by means of collective labor, so that the goods of this world might be enjoyed in a paradise where each would "give according to his powers" and would "receive according to his needs."...unlimited discretion, to draft individuals for the labor of the collectivity, with no regard for their personal welfare `.... inaugurate a new era and a new civilization which is the result of blind evolutionary forces culminating in a "humanity without God."

13. When all men have finally acquired the collectivist mentality in this Utopia of a really classless society, the political State, which is now conceived by communists merely as the instrument by which the proletariat is oppressed by capitalists, will have lost all reason for its existence will "wither away.".

14. Such, Venerable Brethren, is the new gospel which bolshevistic and atheistic communism offers the world as the glad tidings of deliverance and salvation! It is a system full of errors and sophism. It is the opposition both to reason and to divine Revelation. It subverts the social order, because it means the destruction of its foundations; because it ignores the true origin and purpose of the State; because it denies the rights and liberty of human personality.... March 19, 1937,  George H. Kubeck