In a secret letter, Einstein reveals his fears against communism, even in the fight against fascism

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An important hand signed confidential letter (in English) by Albert Einstein, reveal his reservations of associating with communism even in the fight against fascism.

When he was in Princeton, NJ, Einstein wrote to Professor Albert Sprague Coolidge of Harvard University on February 16, 1934:

My dear Professor Coolidge

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I had an opportunity of meeting personally Lord Marley and has [sic] very favorably impressed by his personality. It became known to me that he sympathizes with the Russian Government, i.g. with the Russian communist party and that the committee for which he is active is influenced by communists.

The problem as to the attitude which is advisable to be taken towards this committee is rather complicated. On the one hand, the world-wide danger of fascism makes it necessary that all enemies of fascism cooperate; on the other hand, an action which has communist leanings might endanger that fight since the important task undertaken in defense of culture and civilization may be linked up with interests of a political party.

I, myself have severed my connections with the committee, which, with my permission had used my name up to the end of last year.

It seems to me advisable to take an attitude as follows: to help their action against fascism, but not to identify oneself with the committee.

Very truly yours,

A. Einstein

P.S. I wish you would be good enough to use this strictly confidentially.

Historical context

In 1934, Lord (Baron) Marley (Dudley Leigh Aman), toured the United States to raise funds for his association, the World Committee for the Victims of German Fascism.

Marley, through his committee, was passionately advocating a scheme, for which he was to become an international figurehead, to resettle oppressed German and Polish Jews in the Jewish Autonomous Region in Siberia.

He published a book, The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and the Burning of the Reichstag, sponsored by the World Committee and with an Introduction written by Lord Marley himself, which was the first popular exposé of what was happening in Hitler’s Germany.

It documented the destruction of political parties, trade unions and universities, book-burning, and the building of concentration camps.

At a fundraising dinner held in his honour in New York in February 1934 (where Einstein presumably met him, just before writing this letter), Marley opened the Brown Book and he read aloud to his audience of 600 American Jews some of the collected evidence of Nazi repressions. Here were documentary records of what was happening in Germany. A substantiation of the brutality that had no distinct form in the mind of the American Jewish public. What before had been the subject of a growing fear mingled with disbelief was now being presented as hard fact and supported with detailed evidence.

Einstein was correct to be suspicious of Marley’s activities, for it was later determined that the “World Committee” was indeed a Communist front;

Einstein, writing here to Coolidge in 1934, was prescient about the motives of the committee.

This letter, in addition to underscoring Einstein’s universally none stance against fascism, is particularly important as documentary evidence of Einstein’s caution about having any dealings with communism, and that has not been much publicized, especially considering that the U.S. FBI, worried about Einstein’s political leanings, and kept a file on Einstein that grew to 1427 pages.

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

It does not take a genius to see communism is not a functioning sustainable system.

Felix Quigley
Felix Quigley
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Oh yes and capitalism is making such a wonderful job of managing our earth…go ask the elephants and tigers!

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Felix, capitalism is an economic system, a means of creating and distributing wealth. It does not address the entire human drama. The values you reference need to be addressed by other means.

And oh yeah, communism’s record of environmental stewardship ain’t so hot either.

Felix Quigley
Felix Quigley
6 years ago

Liatris Spicata not quite so fast! Ireland you will accept is a capitalist country. But its native emblem The Irish Hare is fast diasappearing due to the capitalist farming methods (highly mechanized silage making to be precise) and this Irish capitalist system is unable to stop these little HARMLESS creatures being captured in nets and let loose in a field and be mauled by dogs as a “sport”. They are unable to stop this. The parties are Fine Gael, Fianna Fail, Sinn Fein, some Labourites, a couple of Israel hating “Independents” and all follow the capitalist narrative. There is not one “communist” to be found!

I could repeat the same as for Spain, the same parties more or less, Podemos would take the place of Sinn Fein in its radical nature, but nary a communist exists. The model there again is capitalist and the poor animals continue to suffer as in medieval savagery, especially bull fighting.

All you have said is about Stalinist crimes to the environment and indeed everything is true and worse but it was Stalinism. And your dodge does little to make the future better for my Irish Hare and that is the responsibility 100% of Irish capitalism.

Poptoy1949D
Poptoy1949
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Felix you seem to be not paying attention……..comment image

Robert
Robert
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

We already have the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Parks system.
Isn’t that good enough for you? Actually rich countries in this day and age are more
likely to protect their environment than poor countries because they can afford to do so.

jerrys
jerrys
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley
James
James
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Capitalism is not a farming method, dummy. Communists exist because people believe in the 10 Planks of Marx’s Commie Manifesto, #1 of which is the abolition of private property. You are a liar if you try to tell us that nobody believes in the abolition of private property. What is true is that people who believe in it don’t admit it because abolishing private property amounts to stealing everything from everyone in one swell foop. And people don’t think stealing everything from everyone is a good idea.

Hoppla
Hoppla
6 years ago
Reply to  James

And people don’t think stealing everything from everyone is a good idea. James do you think stealing from some people is OK ?

Aleteia
Aleteia
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Human and animal rights in communism don’t exist. Learn about what happened and still happening in Russia, China, N Korea, Venezuela. You are very naïve and uninformed if you’re against capitalism (=free market economy), but pro-communism/socialism.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Ignorant comment. Communists have a terrible environmental record. In the oil business for example – it was us capitalists who sent engineers to the former Soviet states to help them clean up the mess left behind by Central Committees.

The damage done by fossil fuel production by every Commie regime in the Soviet Sphere was far beyond anything ever done by any ‘capitalists.’

And their record on other environmental issues is no better. They never had managed landfills to control leachates until they collapsed.

And as to health and safety issues – don’t get me started. Our commie counterparts were living in tin shacks without clean water nor proper wastewater disposal.

Like most apologists for Commies – you know nothing about it.

Felix Quigley
Felix Quigley
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Oh my goodness or as Comey would say “Lordy”!! I want to avoid a long debate on this as it would not be productive. But at least try to accept that there were divisions, you know categories, such as Marxism, Labourism, Fenianism perhaps I could throw in if you are Irish, Leninism perhaps, above all Stalinism and with Stalinism its oppositionist concepts tied up in what became known as Trotskyism. In these cases words do not mean nothing they mean a great deal. I find it not at all productive to have extended debates with those minds who have not evolved sufficiently (as yet…hope lives eternal) to grasp basic categories

Kook of the East
Kook of the East
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Communism, Stalinism, Socialism, Trotskyism……
None of it works.
Does not matter what you call it
Does not matter who is implementing it.
It always ends in atrocities and mass death.

James
James
6 years ago

Ain’t it funny how the commie pinko doofus tries to baffle us with his fancy foot work. When commies try to tell me that there are different flavors or it hasn’t been tried, I tell them that in theory all communism boils down to the abolition of private property, and that’s why it is insane on its face, and why it cannot ever be “tried,” because it turns out it’s not that easy to steal everything from everyone everywhere for all time, even if you have absolute totalitarian political power.

Hoppla
Hoppla
6 years ago

You forgot capitalism.

Kook of the East
Kook of the East
6 years ago
Reply to  Hoppla

Did the gubmint give you the computer you are using?
The internet access?
Fool.

Hoppla
Hoppla
6 years ago

Name one capitalist country, Schlaumeier. China , Vietnam don’t count.

Hoppla
Hoppla
6 years ago

Define kook: a person whose ideas or actions are very strange or foolish

Randy Claywell
Randy Claywell
6 years ago
Reply to  Hoppla

Hoppia
Cite your source where capitalism teaches the destruction of property rights.

Hoppla
Hoppla
6 years ago
Reply to  Randy Claywell

Stop paying your property tax and you will see how quick your property rights vanish.

Randy Claywell
Randy Claywell
6 years ago
Reply to  Hoppla

Of course, communists don’t do this because there are no property rights, unless you’re a prominent party member.
Answering with a non-sequitur is a sign of a weak to nonexistent arguement. Since liberals/socialists/communists(they all have identical stenches since they are the same thing) are intellectually, morally, and ethically corrupt it is no surprise that you can’t give an honest answer.

Hoppla
Hoppla
6 years ago
Reply to  Randy Claywell

Randy , chill now and think. Since you loose your property if you don’t pay the so called property tax does it not mean you basically just leasing it ? I am not looking for a fight about capitalism just do a lot of thinking on my own. I am no follower.

Poptoy1949D
Poptoy1949
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Felix you really are………….comment image

famouswolf
famouswolf
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

LOL You are the one who seems to struggle with ‘basic categories’. If you really think a communist won’t make the exact (or worse) mistakes with environment and conservation as a communist you haven’t evolved past a simple syllogistic type of ‘logic’. It’s not either/or, pal, it’s a hell of a lot more complex, and both communist and capitalist are human with human foibles. And for the record, if you really want to compare notes about who took better care of the environment, and people, and every damn thing else real time, you will be in for some harsh surprises…like you don’t have a leg to stand on with your puerile bs. Every type of socialist utopian experimentation has and will be disastrous. So much so that the major communist powers seem to have abandoned it, leaving morons in the Western countries as it’s greatest adherents. The USA and capitalism, in spite of flaws (what human invention is not flawed?) work and work better than anything else ever conceived by mankind.
It’s difficult to express just how ignorant you come off.

James
James
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Minds do not evolve, minds learn. Minds learn facts and they learn how to think about facts using logic. You poor doofus, you just keep stepping in it. You need to step back and reconsider your attitudes. You need to realize that you have been brainwashed with communist propaganda and it is interfering with your ability to think clearly and logically.

Randy Claywell
Randy Claywell
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Felix
Is there any substantive difference? You can go to a tree and give each limb a different name, but they all come from the same root.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

When I see them in the line up at walmart, I will inquire. Have a look at people, for instance those in north korea, or any islamic state, how well their system works.

Poptoy1949D
Poptoy1949
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

OH Felix…………..comment image

James
James
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Capitalism is an economic system, not a political system. Capitalism does not prevent laws from protecting legally defined endangered species. Shirley you are aware that exploitation of elephants and tigers long predates the existence of anything that remotely resembles modern “Capitalism.” So, Shirley, you are full of baloney.

1936benz
1936benz
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Those who admire the (false) concept of Communism are mentally ill. I often traveled through that “Worker’s Paradise” back and forth from Berlin in the 1970s, and it was not pretty. You need to go spend some time in eastern Europe to see what a “wonderful job of managing our earth” those two generations of Communists accomplished. There are are sections of east Germany (former “DDR”) that are so contaminated that even the Germans cannot clean them up – to say nothing of the poorer areas in Poland, the Czech Republic and others that experienced brutal, Marxist domination for decades. You’re truly delusional, please seek professional help.

Numberslreplogle
Numberslreplogle
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

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Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
6 years ago

Einstein was certainly no fan of the Nazis. Did his skepticim of communism temper his public expressions about Nazis?

By the way, although few people know this, Einstein was a Moslem. I read it on the Internet. /sarcoff

JTW
JTW
6 years ago

Einstein did not openly speak out against communism to the extent some people would have liked him to do because he was rather soft spoken and disinterested in politics in general (he didn’t want his name associated with communism, not so much because it was communism but because it was not a scientific pursuit).

Felix Quigley
Felix Quigley
6 years ago

SOME SCATTERED COMMENTS ON THIS ISSUE

Mimeographed stenogram of a mass meeting in defense of Leon Trotsky held at the Hippodrome, located at 43rd Street and Sixth Avenue in New York City. With the Great Terror ramping up in the Soviet Union, Leon Trotsky was portrayed by the Soviet regime as the criminal mastermind behind a massive network of spies and saboteurs, intent on undermining the Soviet economy and overthrowing Stalin and his government to achieve personal power in concert with the territorial aspirations of the imperialist powers of Nazi Germany and Militarist Japan.
An international effort was mounted, centered in the United States, to defend the exiled Trotsky — bunkered in the outskirts of Mexico City — from these life-threatening charges. The vision of a Trotsky-Hitler-Japan axis would be the phantasmagoria which would shortly drive the secret police witch hunt remembered to history as the Great Terror. About 900,000 Soviet citizens would be executed during the process and many more relegated to the country’s vicious and deadly network of labor camps.
For Trotsky’s published speech to the Hippodrome meeting of Feb. 5, see the pamphlet “I Stake My Life! Trotsky’s Address to the NY Hippodrome Meeting.” (New York: Pioneer Publishers, 1937).
https://archive.org/details/MassMeetingCalledByTheAmericanCommitteeForTheDefenseOfLeonTrotsky

The horrific crimes of Stalin were shown in the Moscow Trials and an effort was made to answer these crimes and giant lies of Stalinism. But it is noted that Einstein stood aside from these efforts so indeed the political judgment of Einstein may not have been as great as his abilities as scientist…this does often happen in life

Albert Einstein, although noting that Trotsky deserved the opportunity to prove his innocence, was critical of the Dewey inquiry: “The question is raised because Trotsky is an extremely active and adroit politician, who might well search for an effective platform for the presentation and promulgation of his political goals in the public sphere. . . . I’m afraid that the only result would be Trotsky’s own self-promotion without the possibility of a well-grounded judgment.”[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Committee_for_the_Defense_of_Leon_Trotsky

Poptoy1949D
Poptoy1949
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Just for you Felix……….never talk bad about Pam Geller…..Never.comment image

famouswolf
famouswolf
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

You shouldn’t try to think so hard. You really, really don’t have a clue how to. Think, that is.

Jon Bailey
Jon Bailey
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Your view of Communism seems like an emotional response to Marxist propaganda. What do you think of Lenin’s pride over his genocide-by-starvation of 9 million Ukrainians? Do you have any idea how much a person suffers when starving to death?

Without facing the inherent contradiction of an economic system lacking a rational economic calculus, how do you account for the deaths of 50 million Chinese?

Without facing the inherent totalitarianism and inevitable oppression of a system that by force of law concentrates all wealth, all weapons, and all legal authority in the hands of a few oligarchs, how do you account for the success of the genocides of Stalin and Pol Pot? How do you account for the obliteration of the most basic human rights under all these regimes, without considering the inevitable enslavement of the masses that occurs with the abolition of private property?

Marxism as a cure to exploitation and oppression in a market economy is infinitely worse than the disease, even if we ascribe these evils to the market system. It is like trying to remove an unsightly growth–say, a wort–by giving the patient metastatic cancer. Communism is a deception designed for genocide and the exponentiation of crimes against humanity too terrible to contemplate. It is an abomination that has been the scourge of the world for more than 100 years. In that time it has proven itself even more deadly and barbaric than historic, orthodox Islam. Communism is a deception designed to enslave the masses, enrich a tiny minority, and destroy the souls of all. As an infernal engine of totalitarian oppression, genocide, and human rights violations, socialism is far more useful than any religion, although Islam comes closest, by far, in terms of the number of atrocities. How did we forget that Communism, Nazism, and Shariah Law are all socialistic?

Marx himself carefully wrote about his true intentions before his work with Engels. His poetry can easily be found online. His stated purpose was the eradication of all humanity and the engorgement of Hell with our souls. Cute, huh? In this writing he was overtly Satanic. You can straightforwardly verify this fact, as well as the claims I have made above, with a bit of diligent research.

May the truth liberate you from slavery to those who are using you to advance their genocidal, totalitarian, soul-destroying agenda. A good start might be searching for “Lenin’s useful idiots.” I’m serious–no insult intended. God bless.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago

i.e. They were Do-Gooders Doing Good as a Front for Another Evil …

Today, Do-Gooders don’t even bother with the Doing Good part. Fake, false or otherwise.

Felix Quigley
Felix Quigley
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Dan Knight

“They were Do-Gooders Doing Good as a Front for Another Evil …”

You seem to give short shift to what was going on…You dismiss this meeting in the single put down as above in a few dismissive words…So comment on this part:

“Marley opened the Brown Book and he read aloud to his audience of 600 American Jews some of the collected evidence of Nazi repressions. Here were documentary records of what was happening in Germany. A substantiation of the brutality that had no distinct form in the mind of the American Jewish public. What before had been the subject of a growing fear mingled with disbelief was now being presented as hard fact and supported with detailed evidence.”

If that is true surely it is of more value and does not deserve to be clobbered in such a brutal “put down”

Poptoy1949D
Poptoy1949
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Oh Felix………….comment image

Tatiana Covington
Tatiana Covington
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Well, that is more efficient.

CrustyB
CrustyB
6 years ago

He wasn’t alone. Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, that all were ambivalent about teaming up with one fascist regime to fight another. Like Patton said:
“Tin soldier politicians in Washington have allowed us to kick the Hell out of one b*stard and at the same time forced us to help establish a second one as evil or more evil than the first…This time we’ll need almighty God’s constant help if we’re to live in the same world with Stalin and his murdering cutthroats.”

Felix Quigley
Felix Quigley
6 years ago
Reply to  CrustyB

Strange words for a general in a crucial war to say

Poptoy1949D
Poptoy1949
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Felix……….comment image

Felix Quigley
Felix Quigley
6 years ago

In fact Lord Marley was a member of the Establishment in Britain and he was raised to the Peerage by the Labour Party which he continued to serve throughout the 1930s.

The British Labour Party was always an antisemitic party which it has remained to this day. It is a very reactionary entity and has had no difficulty in backing the crimes of Stalinism and in opposing always Leninism and Trotskyism.

This gap was to widen. In the late 1930s Leon Trotsky had become a Zionist advocating the setting up of a Jewish Homeland, I presume that qualifies as Zionist, but some would never agree that an atheist and socialist revolutionary can become a Zionist..

The Labour Party with Lord Marley supporting passed The White Paper of 1939 which made the Holocaust actually happen since it trapped the Jews for the Nazis and the Islamist leader Hajj Amin el Husseini to massacre.

So Trotsky eventually after a long journey but at a crucial point advocating a Jewish state and Jewish nationality, Labour and Stalinism opening the door to the Nazi Holocuast.

Difference no! I think I detect a little difference.

Poptoy1949D
Poptoy1949
6 years ago
Reply to  Felix Quigley

Well Felix……………comment image

Randy Claywell
Randy Claywell
6 years ago

I find it interesting that the “fascists” referred to , the NAZIs, were SELF proclaimed communists. The actual name if the NAZI party is “The National SOCIALIST German Workers Party.” Remember that the name of the Soviet Union was “The Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics.”

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