As our True Mother, the mother of peace and the only begotten daughter, wishes to see the reunification of the Korean peninsula, asking the FFWPU Korea to concentrate substantially on this providential will of Heavenly Parent, we bring you a series of True Parents’ words (in 28 parts), especially for those who are seeking internal guidance from True Parents. Reading these words will help us to understand better the worldwide conflicts of today. If you wish to order the book “Way of Unification”, please click here.
Part 22 (Earlier installments are available for reading.)
Chapter 5 – Communism And the Two Wings
Section 2. The True Nature of Communism
1. The Nature of Communism
Where does Communism come from? About 50 years ago in 1917 it appeared out of the blue in the Soviet Union. Can we look at the historical meaning of Communism and our present times in a more coherent manner? Yes, we can. (18-11)
Communism is a world ideology. But what kind of world ideology? It does not believe in God. It is evil that appears on stage, taking advantage of the late appearance of good. This is the fundamental stance of the Unification Church. (56-163)
Today we hear the Communist battle cry: “Oh, liberate the peasants from capitalism.” We recognize that Communism does not agree with our historical understanding that God is the center of history, is the creator of certain churches, and the impetus for the liberation of those oppressed.
Communism is based on the materialist conception of the world and world liberation. It rejects God, calls religion “the opiate of the masses,” and is devoted to stamping out religion. In theory also, it contradicts its own claim of liberation. It is undoubtedly a liberation scheme against God and, as the flag bearer of the devil, challenges the flag bearer of God’s own church. This is the conclusion we can draw on Communism.
What is Communism? It is the religion of the devil, taking on the form of a real religion to those who are gullible. I see Communism as a theoretical instrument of the devil, called materialism. Why? Because it is evil. (85-230)
Materialism, another name for Communism, is a derivative of religion because it aims to unify all religions around materialism. It resembles Christianity in that it concentrates on some external issues as a materialist religion. Isn’t man trying to play God in this? It’s the same as making Kim Il Sung the father. As an absolute entity, he has become a deity. It’s very similar to religious thinking. There is also the external resemblance to religion. Internally, it unifies thoughts. So the real and the false come to resemble each other. (41-339)
If you look at the Communist countries, it is obvious that individual rights are ignored in favor of the State. Where is the individual within the State? Where is the individual in the State conception of property ownership? The Communists establish the Party as absolute. They say, “You must obey the Party, and belong in it forever,” in order to “liberate the world through Communism.”
Where is the human value on which Communism insists? It is located in absolute obedience to the Party. It’s all turned upside down. The individual and everything else are sacrificed for the Party. Can the Party last forever? Can it maintain its authority forever? Things are changing. Communism is changing. If it were absolute and eternal, the party line might be a plausible explanation. But that is not possible while it is changing.
Those who live within the Communist sphere end up longing for human autonomy, individual rights, and an individual-centered worldview. You know, if the Berlin Wall were to come down, all East Germans would flood to West Germany. Why? Because you cannot forever deprive humanity of its fundamental rights. Communism could conquer the world if it established a free world within its own sphere. Viewed this way, Communism is at a crossroads between individual rights and materialist rights, whose conflict humankind must confront and triumph over.
What is evil? Evil is in self-centeredness. The worst evil is raising the slogan of self-centeredness to the world. What is Communism? It is a self-centered slogan and will do anything for its own self-interests. (32-232)
You probably feel you know the Communists. Communism must fall within. It won’t fall through external battles. If it falls externally, it goes underground, a fertile ground for wayward children learning guerrilla techniques and stealing.
Stealing is the Party’s most common feature. It rapes the passerby. Everything in the world is its enemy. It uses anything to excuse what it wants to do. just on some excuse. It steals a cow from the village, takes it to the mountain, and devours it. It can mug and kill a wealthy person on any street corner. Those are all for revolutionary tasks. Counterrevolutionaries and dissidents are all dealt with this way. They would do anything everywhere.
When they send agents to South Korea, do you think they come with money? No, the agents learn to pickpockets. Pick-pocketing is their mode of operation.
Some become pick-pocket ringleaders and now, staying behind the lines, support others to do their spy activities. You must know this. (163198)
2. Communist Strategy and Tactics
1) Communists’ Deception Techniques
All of you, look at the leftists’ activities. All is deception. All is disguised. Their most important strategic-tactical weapon is their deceptive disguise. They disguise the truth. Evil actually represents as true what is false. (36-60)
The Communist Party has been practicing deception as its standard policy. This practice risks exposure sooner or later. That evil has been in successful existence so long does not mean that its activities are normal. In view of their successful invasion using deception and disguise, we can tell that it is the Satan’s evil playground. This is a problem. (36-26)
What are the Communist strategies and tactics? None other than to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat through a surprise attack. That’s their main idea. For their flanking operation, they go on a peace offensive. Their diehard strategy is to get the bourgeois class intoxicated and to dance to their tune, and then at the opportune moment go for the decisive blow.
They have used this strategy often. Of course, it’s a deception strategy. It’s Satan’s tactic. That’s why they dig tunnels. They all go underground and dig tunnels. Why are they digging tunnels? So that guilty parties can go hiding in them . . . that’s Communism. That will eventually sweep the world. That will demonstrate their muscle. (78-216)
That’s the Communist Party. They will not last long, even though they use the deception strategy and do everything to conquer. They cannot last, and one day they will fall. (62-203)
I am well versed in Communist theory. So, they can’t fool me with their deception. For the past 15 years I have been working with the Liberal Democrats in Japan to counter the Communist theory. Since things are changing as I have predicted, the Japanese are the more eager to consult me on these matters.
Normally, the Japanese would not consult a Reverend Moon, a Korean, on anything. (1981-4.26)
2) Communist Threat and Intimidation
I know the Communists well. They use threat and intimidation until the opponent weakens, and then assaults him. You must remember this pattern. The evil Satan is always on the attack. He cannot attack God because He is stronger. But when the children of God become weaker than he, then Satan attacks immediately.
I have always loved God. I have been imprisoned, threatened, and intimidated many times. My East Garden residence in America has been bomb-rigged by the Communists. However, thanks to God’s protection, none of the bombs went off. I am impervious to their threats and intimidation. I still fight in the trenches in the face of perilous dangers. There is an organization in New York that offers to kill people for 170 dollars. I once had this organization investigated. I have investigated the Mafia, the Communist organization, and underground gangs. As a religious leader, I have done all this. I coached the whole thing in our fight against Congressman Frazer. Bo Hi Park is standing right here, but I also studied organizational training, Communist tactics, and other related matters. (1981-4.26)
The Communist nations are dictatorial nations. Their actions and spoken words are two different things. (54-5 1)
Realistically, the Communists are the world Satan and the cell-unit is their organizational mode of operation. “Oh, I don’t want to know any more than what concerns me, just my own business,” is the kind of mentality that invites attacks from them. “It’s all right as long as you are not involved, is Satan’s standard technique. They use deception and attain their objective through gradual steps. (71-104)
The Communist ideology is precisely that. They force you to obey them through threats and intimidation. To avoid pain and suffering, you give in, pretending you are one of them. But you will escape as soon as the first opportunity arises because you were forced into it in the first place. (32-254)
3) The Unmitigated Lies of Communism
Communists do not hesitate to use lies as their routine means. Defamation is common. They will distort everything and make your life unbearable. Isn’t that so? There is not one nation in the world that believes that North Korea invaded South Korea, thanks to the former’s incessant propaganda of the past 40 years. Everyone thinks the South invaded the North. Out-and-out lies continue.
You don’t know unless you have experienced it. It’s pure evil.
The North has been saying that everyone is hungry in the South, with mobs of poor people sweeping through streets causing chaos and havoc. People there think so. They say in Japan that they would never go to South Korea. Their heads would be cut off, they think. Do you understand this kind of North Korea? You don’t? (No.) That’s why I say many of you remain ignorant. That’s ignorance. Don’t tell me it isn’t so.
Reverend Moon thanks God for teaching him about Communism by throwing him into their prison. Theory alone is not enough. Even the Communists themselves don’t know how Communism works. They believe in their own unmitigated lies. There was this fellow who was my prison warden. The prison meals consisted of low-grade mixed grains, but the warden would ask us, “Don’t you think our laborers are well fed with white rice and once-a-week meat soup and they are so strong?” Every prisoner had to answer, “Yes, of course,” just to save his skin. I went through hell for two years and eight months doing self-criticism.
All Communists are liars. The prison warden told lies every day. He would say, “Our Great Leader Kim Il Sung feeds his prisoners fat beef and plentiful rice everyday so that they work diligently at the factory, etc.” Those lying hoodlums wouldn’t even feed us our ration, cutting it to one-third, with the worst-grade grains at that. All the while, they would sing “Our Great Leader,” etc. It was every day.
The Communists lie like snakes in the grass. Lying is routine for Communists. You must remember this. It’s routine. They routinely lie and deceive.
The Communists are unmitigated liars. Because I know this, I am well versed in Soviet strategies and tactics.
All their insistence on historical materialism and dialectical materialism is just an out-and-out lie.
4) Communists Work in the Dark
Satan works at night. Isn’t that so? God works during daytime. Day is God’s domain as night is Satan’s. So, the Communists do their work at night. All their underground work is done at night. That’s why they dig tunnels to conquer the world. All is done at night, and they cover it up so cleverly. They cover up evil and trumpet some things to the world as propaganda. North Korea today represents all evil nations. Do you understand? Isn’t that so? The North Korean Communists may be killed one thousand times over, but that’s never enough for all their evil deeds.
The Communists push humankind to its death by using force and pressure. They do all their work under the cover of darkness, never in the light. All their operations take place at night. They do nothing during the day. The night is a shadow. They must be destroyed. Communism must be destroyed.
The Communists work in the dark. You must remember that. They do their important training at night. When they torture prisoners, the nastiest things are done at night. That shows that they are real Satan. That’s why we call them underground organizations. The underground organization is the Communists’ common reference. You must remember this. Once we recognize this, we must work more than 24 hours a day. You must understand that you cannot otherwise overcome Communism.
You must understand how Communism works. You must understand that Communists, if so ordered, will refrain from rest for 24 hours straight. Many of them go to work at night, others during the day. You must know this. You rest on Saturdays and Sundays here. People want to reduce their 8-hour work day to 6 hours. You will be eaten alive that way. Think, what would happen? Are you going to win or lose? You will surely lose. (92-132)
To Be Continued …