Brainwashing

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Unless these restless individuals are stamped out and given into the
hands of psychopolitical operatives early in the game, there will be
nothing but trouble as the conquest continues.

The officials of the government, students, readers, partakers and
providers of entertainment, must all be indoctrinated, by whatever
means, into the complete belief that the restless, the ambitious, the
natural leaders, are suffering from environmental maladjustments,
which can be healed only by recourse to psychopolitical operatives in
the guise of mental healers.


By thus degrading the general belief in the status of Man it is relatively
simple, with cooperation from the economic salients being
driven into the country, to drive citizens apart, one from another, to
bring into question the wisdom of their own government, and to
cause them to beg actively for a takeover.


The educational programs of Psychopolitics must, at every hand,
seek out the levels of youth who will become the leaders in the country’s
future, and educate them into a belief in the animalistic nature
of Man.

(SL: I do not doubt for a moment that humans have spirit and not only body, even though evolved
over millions of years and were not created in one day
i.e 24 hours as

all the evidence points to the gradual processes in Nature and not a shock therapy.

A fetus develops for about 9 months before is being born in this world, so there is more that enough evidence and common sense to show that a day in Biblical terms means an Epoch, consisting of millions of years.

For the sake of accuracy, I would like to bring to your attention to the notion that Beria is using the concept that MAN must be convinced that he is only an animal and that

he does not possess any innate (inborn) ability to
know truth and be self-reliant, unless the State tells him what is the best for him

, as the State (Government) knows the best.

He contradicts himself by virtue of the fallacy of the State being able to direct the Men (all people) in the best direction for their own good.

If Man is only an animal and has no spiritual, Divine nature, then all men are such, including all in the Government.

So, how can the State direct the animal-man when the same animals are employed by the State even though on top of the chain?

Who directs them, those animals?

Well, there, the logic stops, as the leaders are not accountable to anything in their mind, and, while all men are two-legged animals, the leaders are "divine.")




This must be made fashionable.

They must be taught to
frown upon ideas, upon individual endeavor.

They must be taught,
above all things, that the salvation of Man is to be found only
through his perfect adjustment to this environment.

(SL: and who controls te environment, dictates to what to adjust.)

This educational program in the field of Psychopolitics can best be
followed by bringing about a compulsory training in some subject
such as psychology or other mental practice, and seeing to it that
each broad program of psychopolitical training is supervised by a
psychiatrist who is a trained psychopolitical operative.

As it seems that the church is the most ennobling influence in foreign
nations, each and every branch and activity of each and every
church, must, one way or another, be discredited.

(SL: Communists fear virtues - not hypocrisy of religion but its noble and true aspect!)

Religion must be
made unfashionable by our demonstrating broadly, through psychopolitical
indoctrination, that the soul is nonexistent, and that Man
is an animal.

The lying mechanisms of Christianity lead man to foolishly
brave deeds.

By teaching them that there is a life hereafter, the
church minimizes the liability of courageous acts during this lifetime.

(SL: One one truly believes in Higher Principles - not dogmas, he/she cannot be controlled by anyone, as he/she is ruled by those Principles only!)

And the liability of any act must be markedly increased if a populace
is to be obedient.

Thus, there must be no standing belief in the
church, and the power of the church must be denied at every opportunity.


The psychopolitical operative, in his program of degradation,
should at all times bring into question any family that is deeply religious,
and, should any neurosis or insanity be occasioned in that
family, he should blame and hold responsible their religious connections
for the neurotic or psychotic condition.

Religion must be made
synonymous with neurosis and psychosis.

People who are deeply
religious would be less and less held likely to be responsible for their
own sanity, and should more and more be relegated to the ministrations
of psychopolitical operatives.


By perverting the institutions of a nation and bringing about a
general degradation, by interfering with the economics of a nation to
the degree that privation and depression become commonplace, only
minor shocks will be necessary to produce, on the populace as a
whole, an obedient reaction or an hysteria.

Thus, the mere threat of
war, the mere threat of bombings, could cause the population to sue
instantly for peace.

It is a long and arduous road for the psychopolitical
operative to achieve this state of mind on the part of a whole
nation, but no more than twenty or thirty years should be necessary
to run the entire program.

Having to hand, as we do, weapons with
which to accomplish the goal.

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Chapter 9


The Organization of Mental Health Campaigns

Psychopolitical operatives should at all times be alert to the
opportunity to organize mental health clubs or groups "for the
betterment of the community."

By thus inviting the cooperation
of the population as a whole in mental health programs, properly
guided, can bring enough legislative pressure on the government
to secure the position of the psychopolitical operative, and to obtain
for him

government grants and facilities, thus bringing a government
to finance its own downfall.

Mental health organizations must carefully delete from their ranks
anyone actually proficient in the handling or treatment of mental
health.


Thus priests, ministers, actually trained psychoanalysts,
good hypnotists, or trained Dianeticists must be excluded.

These,
with some cognizance of the subject of mental aberration and its
treatment, and with some experience in observing the mentally
deranged, if allowed in large numbers within institutions, and if permitted
to receive literature, would, sooner or later, become suspicious
of the activities carried on by the psychopolitical operative.

(SL: As applied to our times,
the first and most important assault, Beria
and any Communist or Fascist leader,
would attempt to discredit
the power of the Free Internet (as he referred
to "literature."

Free and unregulated by Government or Corporations
Internet allows all people to have equal access to any
information on the Web as it contains, practically,
everything.

Ask, yourself, if any Elite wants to regulate and dictate
what, how and when concerning the INTERNET are they
doing that for you sake and benefit or for theirs?

Are you so stupid that you can not discern on your, own
what is god for you and what is not?

Can some one force you to s=remain on a Website,
where you do not wish to stay, whether that contains
violence or pornography for example and you wonder
there by mistake?

Are people; that dumb and incompetent?

Is the Elite that competent?

What about their example of complete failure in New
Orleans during the hurricane (FEMMA maybe?)



Or maybe their competence in the Court system - one
way street directed by the lawyers-judges, ruling for
their friends lawyers.

Are you their friend?

Are they your fiends?

Are skyrocketing oil prices your fault, or maybe the Elite
is getting richer at your expense, while screwing up,
again, at your expense?



Are they not waiting for disaster, when there would be
real shortage of the oil supply due to a catastrophe, war,
dictator, or depletion of it?

There are alternatives and cheap ones but the Elite tries
to hide that knowledge because their investments are in
the oil fields.


Believe me, if their stocks were in the natural,
alternative energy, they would have promoted that.

They are only moved by greed and not any concern for
you or your children.

The hell with tomorrow, let's enjoy today to the max,"
is their slogan!

Yes, they lead this, great country to hell, indeed.





All people can empower themselves via the Internet, as
we do here....yes, VIA THE FREE INTERNET!!!


Warning, Warning, Warning:

THE MOST IMPORTANT GOAL IN A SOCIETY IN WHICH
ELITE ATTEMPTS TO INSTALL DICTATORSHIP IN OUR
TIMES, WOULD BE TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE CITIZENS
FREE ACCESS TO THE INTERNET!!!


Read slowly every word of the Communist Elite Commander and Chief of the
Secret Police, Beria quoted, again, below:

From the speech of the Chief of the Secret Police
of Russia - Beria, at times of the Dictator Stalin.

These,
with some cognizance of the subject of mental aberration and its
treatment, and with some experience in observing the mentally
deranged, if allowed in large numbers within institutions, and if permitted
to receive literature, would, sooner or later, become suspicious
of the activities carried on by the psychopolitical operative.

(SL: As applied to our times,
the first and most important assault, Beria and any
Communist or Fascist leader, would attempt to discredit
the power of the Free Internet (as he referred
to "literature."

Free and unregulated by Government or Corporations
Internet allows all people to have equal access to any
information on the Web as it contains, practically,
everything.

Knowledge is power.

Free access is the means to it.

Controlled access means some one decides to dictate you,
as if were a slave,
what you may read and learn and what you may not!

What's next asking these mutants
how often we may go to a bathroom
and how often to have sex and how?

ALL PEOPLE MUST OPPOSE THAT AND LITERALLY FIGHT
FOR THAT RIGHT, AS IT IS THE BASIS OF DEMOCRACY:
A FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND,THEREFORE, FREE
ACCESS TO IT.

IF THAT RIGHT WOULD BE TAKEN AWAY AND THE
INTERNET IS TO BE LEGISLATED BY GOVERNMENT
CORPORATIONS, THAT IS THE END OF DEMOCRACY
RIGHT THERE AND AN ERA OF DICTATORSHIP AND
CONTROL OF INFORMATION.


SOCIO POLITICAL LAWS STATE THAT, ONCE THAT GOAL
IS ACCOMPLISHED, THE SECOND STEP WOULD BE
IMPLEMENTING SURVEILLANCE.


MARK MY WORD ON THIS PREDICTIONS THAT MUST
NEVER, BUT NEVER COME TRUE.


THEY SEIZED THE COURT SYSTEM ALREADY - I STATE
THAT PEOPLE HAS LOST IT.

THEY TAMPER THE CONSTITUTION THE ONLY
PROTECTION ALL PEOPLE HAVE.

DO NOT LET THEM MAKE INTERNET A COUSIN OF THEIR
COURT SYSTEM, WHERE THEY CAN TELL YOU WHEN AND
HOW TO USE IT AND WHAT YOU MAY READ OR WRITE!



DO NOT TAKE THIS LIGHTLY - THIS IS THE PIVOTAL
POINT IN DEMOCRACY OF THE US.



I AM NOT BEING DRAMATIC- I AM BEING REALISTIC,

AS THE SOCIO-POLITICAL CAUSE-EFFECT RATIO IS
PRECISE AND MERCILESS.

THE INTERNET DEVELOPED SO FAST THAT THE
GOVERNMENT WITH ITS BUREAUCRACY COULD NOT
CATCH UP WITH IT.

THE ELITE DIDN'T GIVE YOU THE RIGHT.

THEY,SIMPLY, DIDN'T HAVE THE PROPER OPPORTUNITY
TO STOP IT, YET.

NOW, THEY HAVE REALIZED THAT THEIR DELAY IS
COSTLY TO THEM.

I WOULD OT BE SURPRISED IF SOME OF THESE
CONTROL FREAKS READ OUR FORUM AND THINK,

DAMN, HOW CAN WE STOP THESE PEOPLE, AS THEY
LEARN AND SHARE!"

THEY DO OT WAN T YOU TO LEARN (ONLY TO KNOW
BASICS TO BE PRODUCTIVE TO THEM TO MAKE MONIES
ON YOU)

THEY DO NOT WANT YOU TO SHARE, AS THEY TAKE
AWAY FROM YOU SO SHARING IS THEIR MORTAL ENEMY.



THEY WANT YOU TO BE IGNORANT AND CONFUSED SO
THAT THEY CAN CONTROL USE PROFIT AT YOUR
EXPENSE.

THAT IS WHY BERIA AND LEGACY OF THOSE SEEK AND
IMMORAL MUTANTS OF HUMANITY KNEW THAT ONCE
THEY CAN SPREAD THEIR DOCTRINE TO THE WEST,
THEY, MAY ROT IN THEIR GRAVE, BUT THEIR LEGACY
WOULD LIVE AND SEEDS ALWAYS GROW INTO FRUITS
SOONER OR LATER.

THE ELITE IN THE US DOESN'T, EVEN,COMPREHEND
THAT THEY HAVE MUTATED THEMSELVES UPON THE
BRAINWASHING OF THE COMMUNISTS FROM THE
SECRET POLICE IN RUSSIA.


THE SECRET POLICE'S CHIEFS STUDY ANYTHING THAT
COULD BENEFIT THEIR CAUSE EVEN THE OCCULT, (BY
THE WAY HITLER LOVED IT) AND KNEW THAT THEIR
EFFECTIVE TACTICS PROPAGATE AS VIRUS AND
CONTAMINATE ANYONE ON ITS WAY, PARTICULARLY
THE ELITE TO HIGH IT WAS DIRECTED THE MOST, AS
THE CHIEFS OF THE SECRET POLICE KNEW THAT ONCE
THE TOP, THE ELITE ARE CONTAMINATED WITH THEIR
"PHILOSOPHY" THE ELITE WOULD CONTAMINATE
OTHERS ALL THE WAY TO THE BASE OF THE TRIANGLE
OF THAT PYRAMID.

JUST FOLLOW THE NEWS ON INTERNET AND YOU
WOULD SEE MORE AND MORE CRIES OF THE ELITE THAT
THE INTERNET IS TOO UNREGULATED.

GIVE THEM INTERNET AND THEY WOULD REGULATE HOW
OFTEN YOU MAY GO IN THE BATHROOM, ONE DAY!

PLEASE TAKE MY WARNING SERIOUSLY AS I GUARANTEE
YOU THE MOVE.

NEGATE IT WITH LETTER, FAXES, PHONE CALLS TO
YOUR LOCAL CONGRESSMAN,SENATOR, ASSEMBLY
PEOPLE.


THEY DO NOT GIVE A DAMN WITH FEW EXCEPTIONS
BUT THEY FEAR NUMBERS OF PEOPLE UNITED BY THE
SAME CAUSE.


THEY NEGLECT FEW, THEY RESPOND TO MANY.

WATCH CLOSELY ON MOVES OF TAKING YOUR RIGHT
FOR FREE INTERNET AS BERIA IMPLANTED THE SEED.


LET'S PLUCK IT OUT BEFORE IT GROWS AND
MULTIPLIES.)

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These must be defamed and excluded as "untrained", "unskillful",
"quacks", or "perpetrators of hoaxes".
No mental health movement with actual goals of mental therapy
should be allowed to continue in existence in any nation.

For
instance, the use of Chinese acupuncture in the treatment of mental
and physical derangement must, in China, be stamped out and discredited
thoroughly, as it has some efficacy, and, more importantly,
its practitioners understand, through long acquaintance
with it, many of the principles of actual mental health and aberration.
In the field of mental health, the psychopolitician must occupy,
and continue to occupy, through various means, the authoritative
position on the subject.

There is always the danger that problems of
mental health may be resolved by some individual or group, which
might then discredit the program of the psychopolitical operative in
his mental health clubs.


City officials, socialites, and other outstanding individuals uninformed
on the subject of mental health, should be invited to full participation
in the activity of mental health groups. But the sole aim of
this activity should be to finance better facilities for the psychopolitical
practitioner.

To these groups it must be continually stressed that
the entire subject of mental illness is so complex that none of them,
certainly, could understand any part of it. Thus, the club should be
kept on a social and financial level.
Where groups interested in the health of the community have
already been formed, they should be infiltrated and taken over, and
if this is not possible, they should be discredited, and the officialdom
of the area should be invited to stamp them out as dangerous.


When a hostile group dedicated to mental health is discovered, the
psychopolitician should have recourse to peyote, mescaline, and
other drugs that cause temporary insanity.

He should send persons,
preferably those well under his control, into the mental health group,
whether founded on Christian Science, Dianetics, or faith preaching,
to demonstrate their abilities upon this new person.

These, in
demonstrating their abilities, will usually act with enthusiasm.
Midway in the course of their treatment, a quiet injection of peyote,
mescaline, or other drug, or an electric shock, administered by a psychopolitician,
will produce the symptoms of insanity in the patient
that has been sent to the target group.

The patient thus demonstrating
momentary insanity should immediately be reported to the
police and taken away to some area of incarceration managed by
psychopolitical operatives, and so placed out of sight. Officialdom
will thus come to believe that this group drives individuals insane by
their practices, and the practices of the group will then be despised
and prohibited by law.

The values of a widespread mental health organization are manifest
when one realizes that any government can be forced
to provide facilities for psychopolitical operatives in the form of psychiatric
wards in all hospitals, in national institutions totally in the hands of
psychopolitical operatives, and in the establishment of clinics where
youth can be contacted and forced into better alignment with the
purposes of Psychopolitics.


Such groups form a political force, which can then legalize any law
or authority desired by the psychopolitical operative.

...

The securing of authority over such mental health organizations is
managed mainly by appeal to education. Apsychopolitical operative
should make sure that those psychiatrists he controls, those psychologists
whom he has under his orders, have been trained for an excessively
long period of time.

The longer the training period that can be
required, the safer the psychopolitical program, since no new group
of practitioners can arise to uncover and embarrass psychopolitical
programs.

Furthermore, the groups themselves cannot hope to
obtain any full knowledge of the subject, not having behind them
many, many years of intensive training.
Vienna has been carefully maintained as the home of psychopolitics,
since it was the home of Psychoanalysis.

Although our activities
have long since dispersed any of the gains made by Freudian groups,
and have taken over these groups, the proximity of Vienna to Russia,
where Psychopolitics is operating abroad, and the necessity "for further
study" by psychopolitical operatives in the birthplace of
Psychoanalysis, makes periodic contacts with headquarters possible.


Thus, the word "psychoanalysis" must be stressed at all times, and
must be pretended to be a thorough part of the psychiatrist’s training.


Psychoanalysis profits greatly from its possession of a vocabulary,
and a workability that is sufficiently poor to avoid recovery of psychopolitical
implantations.

It can be made fashionable throughout
mental health organizations, and by learning its patter, and by believing
they see some of its phenomena, the members of mental health
g roups can believe themselves conversant with mental health.
Because its stress is sex, it is, itself, an adequate defamation of character,
and serves the purposes of degradation well.

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Thus, in organizing
mental health groups, the literature furnished such groups
should be psychoanalytical in nature.
If a group of persons interested in suppressing juvenile delinquency
and in caring for the insane (and indirectly the
promotion of psychopolitical operatives and their actions) can be formed in every
major city of a country under conquest, the success of a psychopolitical
program is assured, since these groups seem to represent a large
segment of the population.

By continual exposure to the airing of
propaganda on the subject of dope addiction, homosexuality, and
depraved conduct on the part of the young, even the judges of a
country can become suborned into reacting violently against the
youth of the country, thus misarranging the youth and gaining their
support for our goals at the same time.
The communication lines of psychopolitics, if such mental health
organizations can be well established in a country, can thus run from
its most prominent citizens to its government.

It is not too much to
hope that the influence of such groups could bring about a psychiatric
ward in every hospital in the land, and psychiatrists in every
company and regiment of the nation’s army, and whole government
institutes manned entirely by psychopolitical operatives, into which
ailing government officials could be placed, to the advantage of the
psychopolitician.


If a psychiatric ward could be established in every hospital in
every city in a nation, it is certain that, at one time or another, every
prominent citizen of the nation could come under the ministrations
of psychopolitical operatives or their dupes.


The validation of a need for psychiatric evaluations in the armed
forced and security-minded institutions of the nation under conquest
could bring about a flow and fund of information unlike any other
program imaginable.

If every pilot who flies a new plane could come
under the questioning of a psychopolitical operative, if the compiler
of every plan of military action could thus come under the review of
psychopolitical operatives, the simplicity with which information
can be extracted by the use of certain drugs, without the after-knowledge
of the soldier, would entirely cripple any overt action toward
communism.

If the nation could be educated into turning over to
psychopolitical operatives every recalcitrant or rebellious soldier, it
would lose its best fighters.

Thus, the advantage of mental health
organizations could be seen, for these, by exerting an apparent pressure
against the government (in the public interest, of course), can
achieve these ends and goals.


The financing of a psychopolitical operation is difficult
unless it is done by the citizens and government. Although vast sums of money
can be obtained from private patients, and from relatives who wish
persons put away, it is, nevertheless, difficult to obtain millions,
unless the government itself is cooperating.

The cooperation of the
government needed to obtain these vast sums of money is best
obtained by the organization of mental health groups composed of
leading citizens who bring their lobbying abilities to bear against the
nation’s government.

Thus can many programs be financed that
might otherwise have had to be set aside by the psychopolitician.


The psychopolitical operative should exert consistent and continual
effort toward forming and continuing in action innumerable
mental health groups.


The psychopolitical operative should also spare no expense in
smashing out of existence, by whatever means, any actual healing
group, such as that of acupuncture, in China; such as Christian
Science, Dianetics, and faith healing, in the United States; such as
Catholicism in Italy and Spain; and the practical psychological
groups of England.


to be continued to chapter 10

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Chapter 10


Conduct Under Fire

The psychopolitician may well find himself under attack as an
individual or a member of a group. He may be attacked as a
Communist through some leak in the organization, or he may
be attacked for malpractice.

He may be attacked by the families of
people whom he has injured.

In all cases his conduct in the situation
should be calm and aloof. He should have behind him the authority
of many years of training, and he should have participated fully in
the building of defenses in the field of insanity which give him the
sole claim to expertise on conditions of the mind.
If he has not done his work well, an individual psychopolitician
may be exposed by hostile groups.

These may call into question the
efficacy of psychiatric treatment such as shock, drugs, and general
treatment. Not one of the cases cited need be real, but they should be
documented and printed in such a fashion as to form excellent court
evidence.


When his allegiance is attacked, the psychopolitical operative
should explain his connection with Vienna on the grounds that
Vienna is the place of study for all important matters of the mind.


More importantly, he should laugh into scorn, by reason of his
authority, the sanity of the person attacking him, and if the psychopolitical
archives of the country are adequate many defamatory
data can be unearthed and presented as a rebuttal, if needed.


Should anyone attempt to expose psychotherapy as a psychopolitical
activity, the best defense is calling into question the sanity of the
attacker. The next best defense is authority. The next best defense is
a validation of psychiatric practices in terms of long and impressive
figures.

The next best defense is the actual removal of the
attacker by giving him, or them, treatment sufficient to being about a period of
insanity for the duration of the trial.

This, more than anything else,
would discredit them, but it is extremely dangerous to manage.


Psychopolitics should avoid murder and violence, unless it is done
in the safety of the institution, on persons who have been proven to
be insane.

Where institution deaths appear to be unnecessary, or to
rise in "unreasonable numbers", political capital might be made of
this by city officials or legislature.

If the psychopolitical operative,
himself, or if his group has done a thorough job, defamatory data
concerning the person, or connections, of the would-be attacker
should be on file, should be documented, and should be used in such
a way as to discourage the inquiry.


After a period of indoctrination, a country will expect insanity to
be met by psychopolitical violence. Psychopolitical activities should
become the only recognized treatment for insanity. Indeed, this
notion can be carried to such lengths that it could be made illegal for
electric shock and brain surgery to be omitted in the treatment of a
patient.


In order to defend psychopolitical activities, a great complexity
should be made of psychiatric, psychoanalytical, and psychological
technology.

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Any hearing should be burdened by terminology too
difficult to be transcribed easily. A great deal should be made out of
such terms as schizophrenia, paranoia, and other relatively undefinable
states.


Psychopolitical tests need not necessarily be in agreement, one to
another, where they are available to the public. Various types of
insanity should be characterized by difficult terms.

The actual state
should be made obscure, but this verbiage can insinuate into the
court or investigating mind that a scientific approach exists and that
it is too complex for him to understand.

It is not to be imagined that
a judge or a committee of investigation should inquire too deeply
into the subject of insanity, since they, themselves, part of the indoctrinated
masses, are already intimidated if the psychopolitical activity
has managed to become well-documented in magazine horror stories.


In case of a hearing or trial, the awfulness of insanity itself, its
threat to society, should be exaggerated until the court or committee
believes that the psychopolitical operative is vitally necessary in his
post and should not be harassed by the activities of
persons who are irrational.


An immediate attack upon the sanity of the attacker before any
possible hearing can take place is the very best defense. It should
become well known that "only the insane attack psychiatrists."

The
byword should be built into the society that paranoia is a condition
"in which the individual believes he is being attacked by
Communists."


This defense will be found to be effective.
Part of an effective defense should include the society’s entire lack
of any real psychotherapy.

Any real therapy must be systematically
stamped out, since a real psychotherapy might possibly uncover the
results of psychopolitical activities.
Jurisprudence, in a capitalistic nation, is so clumsy that cases are
invariably tried in their newspapers.

We have handled these things
much better in Russia, and have uniformly brought people to trial
with full confessions already arrived at (having been implanted)
before the trail takes place.

Should any whisper or pamphlet against psychopolitical activities
be published, it should be laughed into scorn, branded immediately
as a hoax, and its perpetrator or publisher should be, at the first
opportunity, branded insane, and by the use of drugs the insanity
should be confirmed.

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Chapter 11


The Use of Psychopolitics in Spreading Communism


Reactionary nations are of such a composition that they attack a
word without understanding it.

As the conquest of a nation
by communism depends upon imbuing its population with
communistic tenets, it is not necessary that the term "communism" be
applied at first to the educative measures employed.


As an example, in the United States we have been able to alter the
works of William James, and others, into a more acceptable pattern,
and to place the tenets of Karl Marx, Pavlov, Lamarck, and the data
of Dialectic Materialism into the textbooks of psychology, to such a
degree that anyone making a thorough study of psychology becomes
at once a candidate to accept the reasonableness of communism.


As every chair of psychology in the United States is occupied by
persons connected with us, or who can be influenced by persons connected
with us, the constant employment of such texts is guaranteed.


They are given an authoritative ring, and they are carefully taught.
Constant pressure on the legislatures of the United States can
bring about legislation to the effect that every student attending a
high school or university must have classes in psychology.
Educating broadly the educated strata of the populace into the
tenets of communism is thus rendered relatively easy, and when the
choice is given them whether to continue in a capitalistic or a
Communistic condition, they will see, suddenly, in communism,
much more reasonableness than in capitalism, which will now be
seen by our own definition.


(SL: It appears that one page may be missing
from this chapter as it is, unusulaly short.

I would try to find out if that is true.)

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Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany –
March 14, 1883, London) was an immensely influential
German philosopher, political economist, and socialist
revolutionary.

While Marx addressed a wide range of
issues, he is most famous for his analysis of history in
terms of class struggles, summed up in the opening line
of the introduction to the Communist Manifesto: "The
history of all hitherto existing society is the history of
class struggles."

Along with Engels, Marx took part in the political and
philosophical struggle of his times, writing the
Communist Manifesto a year before the Revolutions of
1848.

Marx had broken with his university environment,
German Idealism and the Young Hegelians, and took part
in the debates of the European workers' movement, in
particular in relation with the First International founded
in 1864.

He published the first tome of Das Kapital in
1867, a few years before the 1871 Paris Commune. The
influence of his ideas, already popular during his life, was
given added impetus by the victory of the Russian
Bolsheviks in the 1917 October Revolution, and there are
few parts of the world which were not significantly
touched by Marxian ideas in the course of the twentieth
century.

The relation of Marx's own thought to the
popular "Marxist" interpretations of it during this period is
a point of controversy; he himself once said that "the
only thing [he] knew was that he wasn't Marxist".

While Marx's ideas have declined somewhat in
popularity, particularly with the decline of Marxism in
Russia, they are still very influential today, both in
academic circles, and in political practice, and Marxism
continues to be the official ideology of some Communist
states and political movements.

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Philosophy

Marx's philosophy hinges on his view of human nature. Along with the Hegelian dialectic, Marx inherited a disdain for the notion of an underlying invariant human nature. Sometimes Marxists express their views by contrasting “nature” with “history”. Sometimes they use the phrase “existence precedes consciousness”. The point, in either case, is that who a person is, is determined by where and when he is — social context takes precedence over innate behavior; or, in other words, one of the main features of human nature is adaptability. Nevertheless, Marxian thought rests on the fundamental assumption that it is human nature to transform nature, and he calls this process of transformation "labour " and the capacity to transform nature labour power. For Marx, this is a natural capacity for a physical activity, but it is intimately tied to the active role of human consciousness:

A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. (Capital, Vol. I, Chap. 7, Pt. 1)
Marx did not believe that all people worked the same way, or that how one works is entirely personal and individual. Instead, he argued that work is a social activity and that the conditions and forms under and through which people work are socially determined and change over time.

Marx's analysis of history is based on his distinction between the means / forces of production, literally those things, such as land, natural resources, and technology, that are necessary for the production of material goods, and the relations of production, in other words, the social and technical relationships people enter into as they acquire and use the means of production. Together these comprise the mode of production; Marx observed that within any given society the mode of production changes, and that European societies had progressed from a feudal mode of production to a capitalist mode of production. In general, Marx believed that the means of production change more rapidly than the relations of production (for example, we develop a new technology, such as the Internet, and only later do we develop laws to regulate that technology). For Marx this mismatch between (economic) base and (social) superstructure is a major source of social disruption and conflict.

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Marx understood the "social relations of production" to comprise not only relations among individuals, but between or among groups of people, or classes.

As a scientist and materialist, Marx did not understand classes as purely subjective (in other words, groups of people who consciously identified with one another). He sought to define classes in terms of objective criteria, such as their access to resources.

For Marx, different classes have divergent interests, which is another source of social disruption and conflict. Conflict between social classes being something which is inherent in all human history:

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

(The Communist Manifesto, Chap. 1)
Marx was especially concerned with how people relate to that most fundamental resource of all, their own labour power.

Marx wrote extensively about this in terms of the problem of alienation. As with the dialectic, Marx began with a Hegelian notion of alienation but developed a more materialist conception.

For Marx, the possibility that one may give up ownership of one's own labour — one's capacity to transform the world — is tantamount to being alienated from one's own nature; it is a spiritual loss.


Marx described this loss in terms of commodity fetishism, in which the things that people produce, commodities, appear to have a life and movement of their own to which humans and their behavior merely adapt.

This disguises the fact that the exchange and circulation of commodities really are the product and reflection of social relationships among people.

Under capitalism, social relationships of production, such as among workers or between workers and capitalists, are mediated through commodities, including labor, that are bought and sold on the market.

Commodity fetishism is an example of what Engels called false consciousness, which is closely related to the understanding of ideology.

By ideology they meant ideas that reflect the interests of a particular class at a particular time in history, but which are presented as universal and eternal. Marx and Engels' point was not only that such beliefs are at best half-truths; they serve an important political function. Put another way, the control that one class exercises over the means of production includes not only the production of food or manufactured goods;
it includes the production of ideas as well (this provides one possible explanation for why members of a subordinate class may hold ideas contrary to their own interests).

Thus, while such ideas may be false, they also reveal in coded form some truth about political relations. For example, although the belief that the things people produce are actually more productive than the people who produce them is literally absurd, it does reflect the fact (according to Marx and Engels) that people under capitalism are alienated from their own labour-power.