My dear Sir:

If you think Communism is action designed to abolish segregation, lynchings and forced Negro labor, then I must inform you that you automatically place yourself among the groups of misinformed Negroes. Our present form of government stands for equality before the law, it does not advocate the lynch law and it expressly guarantees "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" to the masses. If these are "shackles" that we are wearing now, Communism, at its best, seems to offer a newer, less safe pair of "shackles" if a Soviet America should be like a Soviet Russia.

Being true to a distinctly radical characteristic, you outlined very carefully the Communist platform. What is this program, may I ask? How shall the government become overpowered? How shall private property be seized? How shall the proposed new regieme handle production and distribution? How may employment be guaranteed to every man? Russia has answered the above questions, but it required a dictator, who took God from the people and substituted smalll statues of himself. It required a government that abolished the exploitation of labor by capital and took up the job of exploiting for its own benefit.

American Negroes will adopt themselves to, and become an efficient part of the present form of government where at least a pretense is made at giving freedom to men and endowing them with certain rights that cannot be made secondary to the whims of power drunk Dictators.

You give me credit for being versed in the "technique of journalism." Thank you! I want to add that I am also familiar with the lighter chapters of Karl Marx and the political history of Russia under the Soviet regime, which may account for my "overlooking" ethical duty to the people I serve.

I rather liked the humor in your last paragraph. It reminds me of a merchant who would say "I have candy, I have apples, I have cakes. If you don't buy something your head will ache. [sic] You may interpret the principles of Communism as meaning political and social advancent for the Negro, but I shall still wonder why these same principles failed, when they were actually put to test, to advance socially and politically, the masses of Russia. Labor is still exploited, as it was under the Czar, only this is done by the government rather than the capitalists and the masses still move at the crack of the whip, only it is the whip of Stalin rather than that of the numerous lords and noblemen.