Реферат: Jospeh Freeman

We who still believe with all our hearts and all our souls in the vision of man

redeemed and liberated everywhere without exception are today the most conservative people

in the world.

We are asking the leaders of democracy and the leaders of socialism to go back

to first principles. Not to the Thirties, O no! But all the way back. To the roots! For

there true conservatism and true radicalism are one. They are one at the roots of our

humanity from which all things grow and live and have a future.

When we recover these first principles and live by them, we will find the

political instruments for carrying them out. For there is no truer first principle than

the one which says that where there is a will, there is a way.

Naturally, where there is no will, there is no way. If you do not want peace,

you will have war. If you do not want justice, you will have injustice. And if we

live only by, in and for political instruments, whatever they may be, if we have no first

principles, no vision, if the means are the end, then we and the world are lost.

What are the first principles, gentlemen?

It’s a long story and should occupy a new generation of free, audacious thinkers for

the next generation — thinkers who will say with Ivan Karamazoff: I don’t want a

million dollars; I want an answer to my questions!

But here we can take one first principle briefly. You ask, gentlemen, why I entered the

Movement in the Thirties when you were clever enough to stay out of it or why I left it

the year I did when you had the genius to leave it the year before.

I entered it because the Movement in its early stages — like religion and democracy in

their early stages — called for the universal liberation of men in such terms of truth,

beauty and morality that anyone with the slightest generosity of spirit, anyone genuinely

concerned with the fate of man, had to respond, had to join.

This cannot be understood solely in terms of the technical details of political,

economic and military manoeuvres and clashes.

When a doctor is rushing in his car to save a life or to deliver a baby, you cannot

explain his mission by the car, the gear-shift cannot explain the baby.