Status Updates From Witness

“But one day the communist really hears those screams… He hears them for the first time. They do not merely reach his mind. They pierced beyond. They pierced to his soul. He says to himself’ those are not the screens of a man in agony. Those are the screams of a soul in agony’ he hears him for the first time because a soul and extremity has communicated with that Wyche alone can hear it-another human soul.”

“ what man can call himself a communist who has not accepted the fact that terror is an instrument of policy, right if the vision is right, justified by history, joined by the balance of forces in the social wars of the century? Those screams have reached every communist mind. Usually they stopped there”

“Hence the communist party is quite justified and calling itself the most revolutionary party in history. It has posed and practical form the most revolutionary question in history: God or man?“

It is the great alternative faith of mankind. Like all great faith, it’s forced derived from a simple vision. Other ages have had great visions. They have always been different versions of the same vision: the vision of God and Man’s relationship to God. The communist vision is the vision of Man without God.“

“And it is a simple, rational faith that inspires men to live or die for it. It is not new. It is, in fact, main second oldest Faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of creation under the tree of the knowledge of good and: ’You shall be as gods.’“

“Their power, whose nature baffles the rest of the world, because in large measure, the rest of the world has lost that power, is the power to hold convictions and to act up upon them. It is the same power that moose mountains; it is also an unfailing power to movement. Communist are that part of mankind which has recovered the power to live or die.-to bear witness-for its faith.“