Bertolt Brecht: Communism and his HUAC hearings.
Bertolt Brecht is a communist in the sense that he believed in the ideals of the political group. Communism is a movement that aims to overthrow order by revolutionary means and to establish a classless society in which all goods are socially owned. In communism, all means of production are owned in common rather than by industries. It is the belief that all are equal and share the wealth of society. No one is better than others and therefore does not deserve a better life; there should not be a gap between the rich and poor. Marx believed that communism should be a society of abundance, equality, and free choice. Communism was based on Marxism. Marx believed a classless society would emerge from a class struggle because the better, newer class would always replace the prior. The bourgeois flourish while the proletariats become exploited because the proletariats do all the work for the bourgeois who profit from the work of the proletariat. Bertolt Brecht had many friends and associates that were a part of the communist party. As a young writer, he agreed with many ideas and theologies of Marxism, which inspired him to write many books and poems on Marxism. Bertolt Brecht's involvement in the communist groups of his colleagues aided him in confusing and making a mockery of the committee during the HUAC hearings.
Brecht was a man who believed in Marxist ideas, "the theories of Marx seemed to offer a rational explanation and a remedy for the ills and injustices of the world."" (Hill, 30) He accepted the philosophical teachings of communism, but he never joined the party. He liked the idea that everyone should share the wealth and that no one should have more power and money than anyone else. It was likely that Brecht agreed with this idea since he was a poor writer trying to make it on the minimal income of writers and theological thinkers of the time.
