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INTRODUCTION

COMMUNISTS ewerywhere share a cornrnon characteristic. They are
experta in the use of a terrninology based on two word6 :rrrevolutionrr
and rrpeoplerr. In doing so, they evidently seek to create the irnpres_
6ion that only they are revolutionary and only they hawe the interests
of the rnasse6 at heart.

In the Bolshevik revolution in Russia over half a century
ago as well as in the protracted Vietnarn conflict, the Cornrnunists
have also rnaintained that their revolution was airned at the overthrow
of a totalitarian regirne full of injustices. And they have always boas-
ted to be the only ones to seek the establishrnent of a new society
based on freedorn, peace and the free pursuit of happiness.

Let us ternporarily set aside the question whether the
Cornrnunists really have the intere6ts of the rnasses at heart and let
us see whether they are justified intheir clairn to be the only true ser_
vants of the pe ople.

For rnany centuries, years and years before C ornrnunisrn
was invented, there have been rnany who think that the best political
base is the people. C on-fitcius, Mencius, Jesus Christ and the Buddha,
all these thinkere and rnany others have agreed in their writings and
preachings that oervice to the people is the best basis for any politi_
cal doctri.ne.

It ensues therefrorn that the principle behind the Corn_
rnunistst ttpeoplers revolutionrt is nothing new, indeed. Cn the contrary,

such Cornrnunist deede as were recorded at euynh-Luu, Budapest and
Poznan, and rnore recently such developrnenta aa the Chinese aggres_
sion in Tibet and the Russian invasion of Czechoslowakia, clearly
prove that the Cornrnunists really do n.ot care about the interests of
the rnaeses and rnay betray revolutionary principles in the rnost
blatant rnanner.
More particularly in the northern part of our country,
although the Cornrnunist regirne has been boasting for the past tv/enty
year6 the succe6s of their revolution, the peoplets life is still a long

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