The Constitution, and all our laws, would be abolished. If you owned productive property you would be arrested as an “exploiter,” hauled before a revolutionary court, and sentenced to a concentration camp—that is, if you convinced the “judge” you were worth saving at all. All property used in production would be confiscated, thus leading ultimately to total communization, meaning state ownership. This confiscation would include your home, business, bank deposits, and related personal possessions. These would “belong to everybody.” You have no “right” to own them under the communist scheme. The revolution would affect every man, woman, and child in America. Communists do not propose to remodel our government or retain any part of it. They would tear it to the ground, destroy all opposition, and then create a new government, an American province in the Soviet world empire. Their recipe for action? The 1917 Soviet revolution, tailored to modern conditions. The communists themselves have made the claim: The principles upon which a Soviet America would be organized would be the same, in every respect, as those which guided the Soviet Union. William Z. Foster, long-time head of the communist movement in our country, has boasted that the communist revolution, after the actual seizure of power, would “develop even more swiftly” than the Russian. All industry would be nationalized and farms taken away from their owners. A small businessman is just as guilty as a large businessman; both must be liquidated. Rents, profits, and insurance would be abolished. Countless occupations, termed by the communists as “useless and parasitic,” would be ended. Here is a part of their list: wholesalers, jobbers, real estate men and stockbrokers, advertising specialists, traveling salesmen, lawyers, “whole rafts of government bureaucrats, police, clericals, and sundry capitalist quacks, fakers, and grafters.” The communists have a special disdain for lawyers. Perhaps it is because there will be no need for lawyers when there are no rights to defend. At any rate, Foster has said, “The pest of lawyers will be abolished.” Action would be drastic, immediate, and without appeal. An armed “Red Guard” would enforce the orders of Party henchmen. Hotels, country clubs, and swimming pools would be used for the benefit of “workers,” meaning, in most cases, Party bosses. The workingman in the mines, factories, and mills would be told to work certain hours for certain wages. Labor unions, as we know them, would be obliterated. All such organizations would be owned and operated by the communist government, and no laborer would be permitted to organize a union or to strike against his “government.”