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The Ninth Rule Of The Ethics Of Means And Ends Is That Any Effective Means Is Automatically Judged By The Opposition As Being Unethical.

The Organized Labor Movement As It Is Constituted Today Is As Much A Concomitant Of A Capitalist Economy As Is Capital. Organized Labor Is Predicated Upon The Basic Premise Of Collective Bargaining Between Employers And Employees. This Premise Can Obtain Only For An Employer-employee Type Of Society. If The Labor Movement Is To Maintain Its Own Identity And Security, It Must Of Necessity Protect That Kind Of Society.

Organized Religion Has Too Often Followed The Road Of Other People's Institutions. It Has Made Adjustments, Compromises, And Surrenders To A Materialistic Civilization For The Benefit Of Material Security In Spite Of Occasional Twinges Of Conscience And Moral Protests. The Result Has Been That Today Much Of Organized Religion Is Materialistically Solvent But Spiritually Bankrupt.

We Must Face The Bitter Fact That We Have Forsaken Our Great Dream Of A Life Of, For, And By The People; That The Burning Passions And Ideals Of The American Dream Lie Congealed By Cold Cynicism. Great Parts Of The Masses Of Our People No Longer Believe That They Have A Voice Or A Hand In Shaping The Destiny Of This Nation. They Have Not Forsaken Democracy Because Of Any Desire Or Positive Action Of Their Own; They Have Been Driven Down Into The Depths Of A Great Despair Born Of Frustration, Hopelessness, And Apathy. A Democracy Lacking In Popular Participation Dies Of Paralysis.

From The Moment An Organizer Enters A Community, He Lives, Dreams, Eats, Breathes, Sleeps Only One Thing, And That Is To Build The Mass Power Base Of What He Calls The Army.