WHAT IS A COMMUNIST?
FORUM, THE PEOPLE'S
What Is A Communist? On this and the next five pages The Progressive reprints, unaltered in any way, a remarkable commentary on our times as it appeared in the Madison Capital Times, one of the...
...A person who believes in a form of government where the entire industry of the country is owned and operated by the government...
...A Communist is a person who does not believe in religion and thinks that everyone should be in the same class...
...1109 Emerald St., It is a name McCarthy uses to smear his enemies with...
...A true Communist is an ideal...
...We do not have it anywhere today...
...A Communist is a person who individually and collectively seeks to overthrow the government by force under the guise that he believes in some of the Fascist phases of government...
...Virginia Cleary, 20 N. Orchard St., State employe...
...They don't believe much in religion and they believe the government should run the people instead of the people running the government...
...They want a regime under the Party to do their thinking...
...Mrs...
...In my opinion a Communist is a person who never had anything and doesn't want anyone else to have anything...
...Ruth Farnsworth, 2511 University Ave., waitress...
...Gene Pressnall, 110 N. Hancock St., State employe...
...John V. Hansen, 5017 Tomahawk Tr., draftsman...
...Dorothy Suchomel, school student...
...He doesn't know when he is well off...
...M. J. Dreyfus, 29 S. Meadow Lane, insurance salesman...
...A Communist is a person who believes that everyone will be taken care of as far as having the basic needs of life with complete governmental control, regardless of whether they believe it will work out or not...
...Ruby Rupp, Morrisonville, Wis., office worker...
...Elaine Runde, 29 Langdon St., secretary...
...The second type is the more dangerous...
...In other words, the commune itself ideally would be where everybody shared everything equally...
...Mrs...
...Edward Slabe, 1322 Eberhardt Ct., hotel employe...
...Betty Steinsberger, Chicago, commercial artist...
...A Communist is a person who wants to force his principles on someone else whether they want them or not...
...Joseph Bollenbeck, 104 W. Gorham St., retired Army officer...
...A Communist is a very misled individual...
...Lee Cohen, Rural Valley, Pa., school teacher...
...I have no clear idea in my mind what a Communist is...
...I suppose it is a person who feels that the world is against him...
...classify a Communist He's a crook I suppose...
...I don't know what a Communist is...
...Loretta Burton, 416 W. Main St., housewife...
...Mrs...
...A Communist can be a great many things...
...C. H. Soden, Janesville, contractor...
...I never saw one...
...A Communist is a person who believes what he thinks is right...
...A so-called Communist is a person who has no place in our country...
...Aaron Epstein, 20 S. Randall St., delivery service employe...
...I can't figure out what they are...
...A Communist is a man who holds certain political, social and economic views which are peculiar to the doctrine set forth by Marx...
...Charles Carlson, Sun Prairie, printer...
...Robert Kunkel, 2814 Ridge Rd., University student...
...Jack Walker, Dalton, Wis., high school student Id I don't suppose I cou...
...A Communist is a person who believes in a form of government where everyone works for everyone else...
...In my opinion a Communist is one who does not believe in equal rights as we do...
...Mary Lita Jensen, 424 N. Patterson St., University student...
...I think you'll find a lot of people like me who can't answer that question...
...They are working against us...
...Arnold W. Kelm, 25 S. Midvale Blvd., draftsman, A frustrated ideologist...
...It is hard to answer explicitly...
...A Communist is a frustrated imbecile who is just looking for a thrill of doing something under cover...
...A lot of people think a Communist is any liberal thinker...
...M. Sgt...
...If their tendency is to overthrow the government we must call them Communists...
...How Would You Define A Communist...
...Grant Skalet, Black Earth, farmer...
...I don't think the question is valid...
...May my country always be right but right or wrong, my country...
...I think they are party leaders who have the people under their thumb...
...Not only in a hurry, but Russian Communists are doing things Marx never dreamed of...
...Mrs...
...A Communist is one who believes in a form of government in which the state comes ahead of the individual...
...Such a thing could exist if all people were Jesus Christs...
...That was the original definition of a Communist...
...Sylvester Frodel, Route 2, Sun Prairie, • handyman...
...They don't believe in God or anything...
...Patricia Blunck, 2645 Milwaukee St., seamstress...
...I figure a Communist is a person who doesn't think for himself...
...Glenn Turner, Route 1, Middleton, lawyer...
...A Communist is a person connected with Russia or Stalin, and is more or less referred to as a radical...
...A Communist is anyone who believes in Stalin's principles...
...Capt...
...I could not give an exact definition...
...Paul Grant, 2210 Chadbourne Ave., clerk...
...Burton Scott, Randolph, Wis., Platteville College student...
...Patrick Maloney, 733 E. Gorham St., tobacco company representative...
...I don't know too much about them...
...O. H. Berge, 208 E. Main St., hotel employe...
...Charles A. Woehrl, 4125 Mineral Pt Rd., architect...
...John Jones, Randolph, Wis., Platteville College student...
...A Communist is one who embraces the philosophies of Marx, Lenin and Stalin, particularly the philosophy of the overthrow of democratic processes of government...
...I guess it would be an undesirable person...
...A Communist is a person who believes in a particular form of government which is common to the Soviet Union and practiced by factions of the population throughout the world...
...Emery Hall, UniA Communist is a student of Marxism who believes in equal distribution of wealth...
...In all, 241 persons were interviewed to produce the 100 answers...
...They have a possessive ideology...
...Jack Boyle, 656 E. Mifflin St., director of instruction and training, Madison Fire Department...
...Gwen Mason, 815 Clymer PI., housewife...
...101 Franklin St., laI don't know what a Communist is...
...A Communist today as the majority of them practice seems to believe in violent overthrow of a government in order to have the Communist doctrine practiced if they can't accomplish it by other methods...
...I really have not studied much on the subject...
...Starling Doud, 150 Langdon St., unemployed...
...3 We have two types, the professional type as in Russia, and the intellectual Communist like Klaus Fuchs...
...In my opinion when a man says "what's yours is mine and what's mine is yours" he is a Communist...
...Robert F. Straub, Sauk City, lawyer...
...Donald Woodrum, St., typist...
...Mrs...
...I feel that I cannot define it and I do not think many people in this country can define the term...
...A Communist is a Sofcialist in a hell of a hurry...
...I think they should throw them out of the White House...
...In the U. S., he's a psychological misfit...
...Communists, most Americans seem to agree, are the great threat to the United States and its institutions...
...Sam Onheiber, 719 Mound St., Internal Revenue Agent...
...Their answers are included with the others...
...He is a pig without a mud-puddle...
...They look like anybody else...
...Gene Levitt, 716 State St., University student...
...There are several kinds of Communists...
...We all believe in Utopia...
...Walter Christensen, 216 N. Dickinson St., housewife...
...A person who believes in the Socialist form of government...
...I am an American citizen...
...A member of the Communist Party of Russia...
...Mrs...
...I can't define it any other way...
...Carlee Young, Ann versity student...
...I cannot explain it...
...Alice Blaschka, Sun Prairie, high school student...
...That is all I can think of...
...Catherine Conners, 1111 Bowen Ct., state employe...
...In Russia he's one thing, here he is another...
...Norbert Diederich, 809 Terry Pr., tavern keeper...
...Ronald Marquart, Markesan, navy inductee...
...The Progressive invites readers to send their own answers to the query— What is a Communist?—in 50 words or fewer...
...Glen Kusche, Sun Prairie, attorney...
...Harry Reeve, 2314 Upham St., machinist...
...yet many have no notion what a Communist is, and among those who have a definition there is an extraordinary diversity of opinion on the nature of the threat...
...A Communist is a person who believes in a form of i government which is strictly against capitalism and free enterprise...
...I think it is somebody who does not believe in religion and thinks everything should be equal...
...Jim Skaff, 140 W. Gorham St., University student...
...who believes that the suppression of rule by the majority and the subjugation of the majority to the tyranny of a small powerful and ruthless group should prevail...
...Alice Martin, 140 N. Franklin St., University student...
...Earl R. Libh Sr., 208 N. Patterson St., postal clerk...
...I really don't know, myself...
...E. W. Chapleau, 322 W. Sunset Ct, real estate broker...
...A Communist is a person who wants everything their own way and is an enemy of ours...
...Mrs...
...Fair Oaks Ave., It is a person who believes in working for the good of all but who has no individual rights as to entering into business and political decisions...
...Ninety-seven persons said they could not define the term, and refused to be quoted...
...Don A. Phelps, Middleton, University student...
...Russia has a dictatorship...
...I don't have much of a definition but I think it is someone who doesn't believe in another country's Lord...
...Frank Stejskal, Waunakee, truck driver...
...Anybody that stands for things that democracy does not...
...Rolland Koerth, Sun Prairie, assistant cashier...
...that would be my definition of one...
...Sun Prairie, high A Communist is a person who wants war...
...Claude McCormick, Randolph, Platteville College student...
...1, Cambridge, Communists have these trials and they don't play fair...
...Many refused outright to' answer the question...
...They are not satisfied with conditions in the U. S. and want to make a change...
...Joe Di Salvo, 802 Regent St., restauranteur...
...A Communist from my dealing with them over in Korea isn't even human...
...A Communist is not a good American...
...Kathryn Abrams, Stoughton, clerk...
...Instead of asking the quota of five persons usually approached by the Inquiring Reporter, City Editor Cedric Parker and Reporter John Hunter decided to publish 100 answers on the theory that few questions touched so intimately on the hopes and fears of so many people...
...Mrs...
...One who has no individual character...
...A Communist is a man who is dissatisfied with the world and is trying to take it out on the rest of the people...
...I'm not sure I know what I'm talking about...
...On this and the next five pages The Progressive reprints, unaltered in any way, a remarkable commentary on our times as it appeared in the Madison Capital Times, one of the nation's foremost crusading dailies...
...Marlin Krogen, 446 W. Wilson St., stenographer...
...Robert Pierce, 2018 Third St., garage worker...
...A Communist is a person who believes in collective working together...
...Floe Runde,, 29 Langdon St., typist...
...I don't know what they are but they are no good to us and we have too many of them in this country...
...211 Langdon St., UniA Communist is someone who believes that all public property should be under control of the government and wealth derived from this property should be distributed equally...
...I don't know what they are to come down to it...
...A Communist is a person who is against the principles of democracy...
...A Communist is one who believes the State is supreme...
...Dorothea Wyss, 446 W. Wilson St., stenographer...
...A Communist is a person who owes allegiance to a domineering country...
...A person who is not satisfied with our government and thinks Russia's is better...
...One who believes in equality for the masses...
...You hear a lot about them all the time, though...
...Arch Scheel, Waterloo, farmer...
...I think they ought to do something about that...
...A Communist is a person who believes in and practices the principles and methods of the Communist Party...
...Bob Murray, 207 E. Washington Ave., Army Recruiting Office...
...A Communist is a person who believes in the ideology of Joe Stalin and the Soviet Politburo...
...If a person didn't have a religion I would be tempted to believe he was a Communist, since they don't believe in religion...
...In other words, statism or Utopia...
...Communists in the Western countries are people who do not know that they are servants of the Communist system of the Kremlin...
...You would have to be a member of the Party to define it accurately...
...A Communist is one who wants a government where there is no chance for competition and where everyone is on an equal basis...
...A fellow who gives military secrets to the enemy in war and peace...
...In my mind it is a guy who is working against the U. S. government...
...A Communist in the U. S. is a person who belongs to a political party whose principal object is the overthrow of our government...
...those that are misled like a bunch of sheep and the academic "parlor pinks" who want to revolutionize civilization...
...I've always considered a Communist a person who is against the democratic way of life...
...Well they are always sneaking around...
...The term has been used very loosely...
...Mrs...
...3134 Hermina I'd say it was people who want everything to belong to the government...
...I've been trying to find out myself but I've never been able to get a definition...
...Ben Kay, 810 Oakland Ave., retired rural mail carrier...
...I have heard the expression a lot of times but I really don't know what a Communist is...
...I don't know much about it...
...A Communist is similar to an atheist and does not believe in God...
...John Schemanski, borer...
...A Communist is one who believes the state is supreme and that everybody has equal rights...
...I suppose it would be anybody who is a member of the Communist Party as evidenced by carrying a party card or by loyaltyZelma Fine, 139 Langdon St., clerk...
...The term is so loosely applied...
...Philip Rosenthal, versity student...
...Anybody who is trying to overthrow the government in one way or another and who does not believe in what we are fighting for...
...A Communist is somebody that believes in the Russian form of government and believes that everything should belong to the state and wealth should be divided up...
...George Mader, 825 S. Brooks St., postal worker...
...I can't make a real definition of a Communist...
...A Communist is one of these guys who has no use for this country and wants to change it...
...Leroy Silampa, 626 N. University student...
...It is not necessarily of Russian origin but it got a foothold there...
...Nelson W. Mongrain, MaHnette, Minn., lawyer...
...I think a Communist is someone that might try to influence people to his way of thinking even though he knows it is wrong...
...Cleao Sullins, 502 N. 7th St., housewife...
...A Communist is one who follows the Marxian doctrine and advocates the overthrow of governments not in accord with those doctrines...
...There is no real answer to that question...
...Allen Batz, Sun Prairie, registered A Communist is one who believes that the state should govern...
...A Communist is one who betrays his country...
...They let the numbskulls do their fighting...
...Donald Goodman, Route grade school pupil...
...105 North St., state emA follower of the Communist line both in action and in spirit...
...Robert O. Link, Sun Prairie, printer...
...Al Negus, 2718 Van Hise Ave., salesman...
...A Communist is a radical who believes in the control of everything by the State, even to the extent of the overthrow of the government by force...
...In my opinion a Communist is a person who is trying to sell freedom in the U. S. down the Jan Oschatz, 142 Langdon St., University student...
...It's all relative...
...William Blachman, student...
...A subscriber, Vernon Gil-bertson, Cottage Grove, Wis., had suggested that the Capital Times' Inquiring Reporter ask people at random: "What Is A Communist...
...Arthur Malmquist, Camp Douglas, farmI think they are dictators...
...To me a Communist is a traitor to this country...
...William Nahirniak, Oregon, draftsman...
...R. R. McCabe, Milwaukee, salesman...
...That question is like asking when is a man intoxicated...
...H. E. Lawson, Fess Hotel, retired...
...Emily Van Dewalle, 2929 University Ave., clerk...
...They are no good to my notion...
...There are different kinds of Communists...
...I haven't the slightest idea what a Communist is...
...I'd say the absolute Communist is one who believes in the Marxist theory and advocates violent overthrow of tHe government...
...Ken Watson, ploye...
...I really don't know what a Communist is...
...Replies will be published in the People's Forum...
...A Communist is somebody who fights freedom...
...That is the theoretical definition...
...I don't think any definition can cover the word "Communist...
...A Communist is a person who believes the state is supreme and who works for the state...
...W. L. Woodward, 2016 Van Hise Ave., lawyer...
...Joan Swanson, 240 Lake Lawn PI., University student...
...Wis., I think it would be one who follows everything his government says under the Communistic principles...
...Jim Kentzler, 2550 Van Hise Ave., University student...
...Clyde Stevens, 2300 S. Park St., hospital attendant...
...Philip Fitzgerald, 120 W. Wilson St., motion picture projectionist...
...If you were to ask me to define Republicanism or the principles of the Democratic party, I would have the same difficulty...
...Nancy Mueller, 1456 Williamson St., American Legion Club manager...
...Judy Lenett, 114 versity student...
...Donald Mockrud, 28 W. Wilson St., hotel employe...
...I'm not exactly sure that I know the definition of a Communist because the definition seems to be changing...
...Delbert Wood, Route 1, Sun Prairie, chemical supply firm owner...
...A Communist is somebody that is always working against our form of government...
...Tosten Johnson, De Forest, farmer...
...I can't answer that...
...Arnold Farber, 201 North St., unemployed...
...William L. Newman, 5126 Whitcomb Dr., life insurance salesman...
...Some of them have revolutionary ideas...
...Kathleen Walker, 811 Hiawatha Dr., bookkeeper...
...James Hall, 421 N. Murray St., State employe...
...Elizabeth Cutter, Evansville, legal stenographer...
...A Communist is one who adheres to the strict principles that economically, socially and physically the governing body is absolute...
...Al Schwartz, 509 N. Henry St., University student...
...In real terms a Communist is an idealist who believes in Utopia...
...W. Gilman St., UniBasically a Communist is anti-capitalistic...
...I cannot put my opinion in words...
...It may be all right in the old country where they have nothing to divide but in the U. S. it wouldn't work...
...David Dunphy, 202 S. Henry St., stereo-typer...
...Mrs...
...I can't quote a dictionary definition but I think it is anyone who by their own admission believes in Communistic theory as outlined by Lenin...
...Clyde E. Stevens, 2300 S. Park St., furnace repairman...
...Several of those who gave permission to be quoted and allowed their pictures to be taken, said they, too, could not define the term...
...A Communist is a person who believes that one man or one group should run the whole country...
...Ike McKinley, Gulfport, Miss., truck driver...
Vol. 17 • April 1953 • No. 4
