To the editor:

Elton Wong was misguided in his support of communism.

I have read the entire “Manifesto of the Communist Party.” It disgusted me.

Do you ever feel like relaxing? It is pretty easy to go to the store, buy your favorite snacks and beverages and unwind watching your nearly worn out copy of “Animal House” for the 700th time.

This night would not be possible under communism. You can’t go to the store and buy a Budweiser. You can’t save up your money to buy a VCR or even a movie to watch on it.

No matter how hard you work or how badly you want something, you can never save enough money to buy it. You see, you would not be able to buy or sell anything.

All products are distributed “according to common agreement.” There is no individual.

In the United States, if you wake up and decide to spike your hair and dye it red more power to you. Under communism you could only do this if there was a “common agreement” that red dye and hair gel should be distributed to you. It is communism, not capitalism, that destroys an individual’s worth.

Here are some quotes straight from the pens of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: “The future will decide that the land cannot be owned but nationally.”

“In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.”

“The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.”

By “bourgeois,” they mean your parents, “middle-class owners of property.”

Don’t be fooled into thinking that they are only after the assets of the superrich. Communism advocates the seizure of ALL communication, housing, transportation, banking, land and private property.

Wong criticizes capitalism for erasing morality and separating families. This is simply not true. Look around you.

On the other hand, communism believes that all children should be taken from their parents “from the moment they can leave their mother’s care” to be educated in national establishments.

Notice this said mother’s care, not parent’s care. Rather than marriage, communists believe we should have an openly legalized system of free love.

In the Manifesto, Marx and Engels also state, “There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society.

“But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality.”

Phillip Burgmeier

Junior

Construction engineering