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the philosophy of Communism, might prove to be a fallacious one. If Communism is mistaken in its idea that class conflict is inevitable and if Communist zealots are not successful in fomenting an aggressive and crusading spirit among the population of those areas that they influence or control, then war between the United States and Russia might not arise. This situation may well develop. If material pro- ductivity increases substantially throughout the world as a result of industrial and scientific progress, it might prove possible so to in- crease the material well-being of the proletariat that it would not carry its opposition to the property owning class to the extreme extent of destroying it. In other words, it might be possible to prove to the proletariat the undesirability of killing the goose that lays the golden egg. It should be noted in passing that Communism clearly recog- nizes this "danger" to the achievement of world revolution and therefore preaches that the function of trade unionism, for example, is not simply to get as much as it can for the worker within a capitalist society, but rather to intentionally make his demands so great that they will necessitate the destruction of that society. One might well raise the question whether the demands of certain elements of labor at the present of coftain Communist philosophy I ? à time do not illustrate this in action. If Communist revolution is not inherent in the nature of our economy (and possibly even if it is), it can be achieved only by large -33-

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