The Hungarian Student, 1958 (3. évfolyam, 1-2. szám)

1958-10-01 / 1. szám

to breach the family so severely that it ceases to be a strong community and falls to pieces. It is true that they take serious steps to make divorce difficult, but that is only to preserve the façade. They preach morals, but all they accomplish is immoral. The exhaustion of the women through the exaggerated tempo at which they are forced to work, the very high standards required, the material worries caused by low pay, produce innumerable occasions of friction between husband and wife when they come home dead tired in the evening. The women have more than enough with 8 to 10 hours hard work besides their housekeeping. So as soon as the children are born they are put into nurseries; sometimes you see them crying in their mother’s lap in the crowded trams between 6 and 7 in the morning. The nurserey employees do their work merely to earn their «feed», with the result that the infants often fall ill and even tragic deaths are no rare event. Later on they are taken to the «kindergartens». Little by little the parents, embittered and utterly exhausted by hard work, lose their love for each other. Thus through the practical difficulties of everday life society achieves its aim - the destruction of the family.

The Communist ethic preaches something quite different from what the means it employs are apt to promote. Despite the measures taken for the protection of the family its methods cannot help leading to the decay of the family. Moreover, in the ethic of Communism we can find the most immoral theses. Unmarried motherhood is praised to the stars. But babies born out of wedlock are taken away from their mothers and educated from birth according to their tastes. The idea is to raise a generation who will have absolute faith in the doctrines of Communism and believe that one can live in a primaeval community, that the collectivity alone is viable, that the State will one day fade away, that their ethic is good and true in the absolute sense of the term and the only one acceptable, who will be happy when they cease to live as individuals and work like thoughtless robots. Their demands will be so few that they will not even imagine the possibility of rebelling or being dissatisfied. The Communists want the primitive conditions of the primaeval community, but of course they cannot say so, for it is only with such a primitive mass of human material that a social order of the type they aim at can be achieved. At present the minority is trying to force this on the majority. That majority has evolved to the intellectual level, or 13 degenerated to the point, where it is no longer able to bear the col-