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"What Was that
You Called Me?"
When you sling mud, know what you're slinging, or words to that effect — by KWK's news commentator, who does a bit of defining of words like "communist" and "fascist."
By RAY E. DADY
THE word "communism" is one we are likely to hear more and more in the days to come. Whether we Hke it or not whole European areas, notably in the Balkans, are going to fall within the Russian sphere of influence. This means the system of government which will be devised to shape the lives of the people, will be along communistic lines. So the " term "communism," which used to be confined largely to conversation among readers of the New Masses, is now becoming a world term and is finding its way into the vocabulary of both statesmen and sand-hogs. Whenever the entire population of a democratic country gets on speaking terms with any word, there should be some idea of what it means.
However, I find the word "communism" being loosely used by employers to designate any guy who works overtime at time and a half, any bloke who believes in the principle of collective bargaining, any lost soul who belongs to a credit union or buys his groceries from a co-operative store. The same word is used to put in his proper place any idealistic
loafer who believes a certain amount of regulation in business is in the interest of the commonweal, or any itchy-palmed tub-thumper who believes the TVA and the other proposed valley authorities have a place in protecting and preserving our economy and our recources. To use the word "communism" or "communist" in any such loose fashion is little short of libelous against the millions of good Americans who believe the TVA, collective bargaining, a great mass of so-called social legislation, yes, and even the New Deal — are all good instruments in the creation of a sound and democratic way of life.
Novv^ let's flip the coin over and see what's on the other side. There we find another nasty word — "fascism." That term has been bandied about and kicked across the field so often that not even the boys of the original beer cellar putsch would recognize their own creation. The words "fascist" and "fascism" are subject to the same careless and many times vicious misuse as their antonymns of "communism" and "communistic." The starry-eyed idealists.