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EARLY U.S. DOVE

During the Mexican War
there was a young Congress-
man who opposed our coun-
try’s involvement in that con-
flict. He accused Pres. James
K. Polk of starting the war as

an excuse to steal territory from »

our weaker neighbor to the
south. :

When the President replied
that it was the Mexicans who
attacked first, this Congress-
man responded with an abu-
sive attack on the floor of Con-
gress. He said that the Presi-
dent's defense of his war poli-
cies reminded him of a skilled
lawyer trying to save the neck
of an obviously guilty client.

This Congressman’s seeming
lack of patriotism drew criti-
cism from Americans. in all
parts of the country. His popu-
larity in his own district, with
many of its men in uniform and
fighting in Mexico, plunged to
zero.

You didn’t have to be a poli-
tical analyst to see that he
stood no chance at all of being
reelected. But he didn’t have
to worry about that because his
own party didn’t even bother
to renominate him. When his
term ended he found himself
with a one-way ticket to politi-
cal oblivion.

But somehow he managed
to make a comeback. His name
was Abraham Lincoln.

—lIzzy Siev, in Daily World,
New York.

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ion number 1560, ‘

End Canadian complicity

We go to press on the eve of what
promises to be the greatest popular de-
monstration for peace in the history of
the United States and Canada. Presi-

- dent Nixon’s most recent TV address

dashed the hopes of the peoples for an
early end to the criminal U.S. war
against Vietnam.

The U.S. administration seriously
miscalculated when it began the war.
It cannot and will not win it. Its deter-
mination to continue and expand it

causes mounting unrest at home, and

is fraught with political consequences
for itself and the rest of the world.

The marching feet of millions of de-
termined penty fighters this week will
confirm that fact. Opposition to the
war is growing in numbers and unity,
and is combining with outspoken op-
position: within the U.S. Congress, all
of which is creating a political crisis of
significant dimensions for the Nixon
administration.

The government of Canada has play-
ed an unsavory role in this dirty war
in support of United States imperial-
ism. Canadian diplomats have helped
the U.S.A., Canadian business con-
cerns profit from the war, and tests are
made on Canadian soil of poisonous
chemicals for use in Vietnam. The
Canadians who march and demon-
strate will be doing so in solidarity
with the American peace fighters, but
also to end Canadian complicity in this
dirty war.

The men, women and children who
in whatever way act for an end to the
war against Vietnam on November 13,
14 and 15 are the makers of history.
Only the inspired passionate struggle
of millions upon millions of people en-
sures mankind a future of peace and
progress.

Roots of violence

Public attention has recently been
focussed on violence in our society in a
spate of materials and programs. Most
so-called “experts” claim violence is in-
herent in human nature. Man’s evolu-
tion denies that. Essentially man is a
social, co-operative being — not a vio-
lent, war-making animal. rea

Most violence must be understood as
conditioned behavior, because there is
a profound difference between a capa-
city for violence under certain specific
conditions, and a natural instinct to
violence. It stands to reason that man
would flourish — and does under com-
munism — without violence.

The theories that there is a natural
imperative to violence is a politically
reactionary concept, used to justify ca-
pitalist exploitation and war making.
Soldiers fight wars because they have

been drafted, not because of instinct.

Man’s ideas and behavior reflect the
society in which he lives. Violence is a
built-in feature of the way-of-life under
capitalism. It is no longer possible to
hide the extensive evidences of decay
of an incurably ill capitalist society.
The “atmosphere” in which we live is
permeated with violence, sanctioned
and originating with the powers-that-
be. ;
Dr. Frederic» Wertham says, “The

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prototype of human violence is one per-
son killing another. This is really an
extraordinary event ... annihilating in
a moment a human organism with all
its potentialities: It should fill us with
wonder. And at the same time it should
give rise to compassion for the victim.”

Of course, individual acts of murder
pale into insignificance -in face of the
mass-murder feature of Nazi Germany
and the United States in Vietnam, but
Dr. Wertham goes right to the heart of
the question of the sacredness of all
human life.

Violence is one of the infinite num-
ber of problems facing us. While the

.peoples of the U.S.S.R. are concerned

with the emergence and molding of the
New Man, the problem under capital-
ism is to arouse man to conscious strug-
gle for the new socialist system, a sys-
tem which does not breed violence,
wars, hate and greed, and under which
life becomes more valuable.

Society should make it possible for
everyone to live a socially meaningful
role, so that it is a joy to live. One can

live rationally only in a rational socie-

ty.
The Just Society

We are told that Senator Croll was
moved to tears by the story told by
one of the witnesses before the Senate
Committee investigating poverty. He,
first as an MP and now as a Senator,
has had more than ample opportunity
‘to do something meaningful about it.

In September of 1968, the Economic
Council of Canada stated that the
pees in Canada were num-

ered “not. in the thousands, but the
millions.” ee

_Poverty is one of those problems ca-
pitalist goernments like to sweep under
the rug. They pay lip service to it in
the United Appeal when they extract
a few more million dollars from the

ublie to do the government’s job for
it. With the typical hypocrisy of capi-
talist society, they get sloppily senti-
mental about it, but: they do nothing
basic about solving it, other than to de-
plore it. To excuse themselves, they

usually get around to blaming its vic-

tims for its existence.

Capitalism maims the lives of count-
less millions of people, extinguishing
the spark of human dignity, creativit
and the joy of living. It condemns mil-

lions to live in needless misery, to suffer’

and die from common ailments which
can easily be cured and brought under
control. Every such death is a murder.
Capitalism breeds poverty. We live
in a society whose industrial system
has created poverty as the characteris-
tic condition of several million Cana-
dians at the same time that it has en-
riched a small handful. The cure is so-
cialism. .
Something more tangible is needed
than talk about the dimensions and the
puehe of the poverty stricken.
he talk in high places about the Just
Society is so much twaddle. It isn’t a
matter of providing more relief. Socie-
ty is rich enough to afford the raising
of the standards of all Canadians. The
government spends astronomical sums
on arms, which enriches the monopo-
lies, but is a roadblock to providing
adequate standards of living.

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