[Sharing Lights]

A continuous hope for prosperity must be indoctrinated into the
masses with many dreams and visions of glut of commodity, and this
hope must be counter-played against the actuality of privation and
the continuous threat of loss of all economic factors in case of disloyalty
to the State in order to suppress the individual wills of the masses.
In a nation under conquest such as America, our slow and stealthy
approach need only take advantage of the cycles of booms and
depressions inherent in Capitalistic nations in order to assert increasingly
strong control over individual wills. A boom is as advantageous
as a depression for our ends for during prosperity our propaganda
lines must only continue to point up the wealth the period is
delivering to the selected few in order to weaken their control of the
state. During a depression one must only point out that it came
about as a result of the avarice of a few and the general political
incompetence of the national leaders.
The handling of economic propaganda is not properly the sphere
of psychopolitics but the psychopolitician must understand economic
measures and the Communist goals connected with them.
The masses must at last come to believe that only excessive taxation
of the rich can relieve them of the "burdensome leisure class" and
can thus be brought to accept such a thing as an income tax, a Marxist
principle smoothly slid into the Capitalistic framework in 1909 in the
United States. This even though the basic law of the United States
forbade it and even though communism at that time had been active
only a few years in America. So successful was the income tax law,
that had it been followed thoroughly, it could have brought the
United States and not Russia into the world scene as the first
Communist nation. But the virility and good sense of the Russian
peoples won. It may be that the United States will not become entirely
communist until past the middle of the century, but when it does
it will be because of our superior understanding of economics and of
psychopolitics.
The Communist agent skilled in economics has as his task the suborning
of tax agencies and their personnel to create the maximum
disturbance and chaos and the passing of laws adapted to our purposes;
and to him we must leave this task. The psychopolitical operator
plays a distinctly different role in this drama.

The rich, the skilled in finance, the well informed in government are particular
and individual targets for the psychopolitician.
His is
the role of taking off the board those individuals who would halt or
corrupt Communist economic programs. Thus every rich man, every
statesman, every person well informed and capable in government
must have brought to his side as a trusted confidant a psychopolitical
operator.
The families of these persons are often deranged from idleness and
glut and this fact must be played upon, even created. The normal
health and wildness of a rich man’s son must be twisted and perverted
and explained as neurosis and then, assisted by a timely
administration of drugs or violence, turned into criminality or insanity.
This brings at once someone in "mental healing" who could then
by his advice or though the medium of wife or daughter, guided by
his opinions, direct the optimum policy to embroil or upset the economic
policies of the country and, when the time comes to do away
forever with the rich or influential man, to administer the proper
drug or treatment to bring about his complete demise in an institution
as a patient or dead as a suicide.
Planted beside a country’s powerful persons the psychopolitical
operator can also guide other policies to the betterment of our battle.
The Capitalist does not know the definition of war. He thinks of
war as attack with force performed by soldiers and machines. He
does not know that a more effective if somewhat longer war can be
fought with bread or, in our case, with drugs and the wisdom of our
art. In truth, the Capitalist has never won a war. The psychopolitician
is having little trouble winning this one.