Masters of deceit : $b The story of Communism in America and how to fight itHoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar)
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Masters of deceit : $b The story of Communism in America and how to fight it
Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar)
Communism -- United States
2. Organize systematic agitation among the workers where the
spy was discovered.
3. Mobilize the children and women in the block in the part of
town where the stool pigeon lives to make his life miserable;
let them picket the store where his wife purchases groceries
and other necessities; let the children in the street shout
after him or after any member of his family that they are
spies, rats, stool pigeons.
4. Chalk his home with the slogan: “So-and-So who lives here
is a spy.” Let the children boycott his children or child;
organize the children not to talk to his children, etc.
This represents the utter depths of depravity, hate, and inhuman venom
to which the Party will descend in order to wreak vengeance on an
expelled member.
An expellee must have no association with any member of the Party—even
though that member be his own father, mother, wife, or husband.
“Associating with the enemy” is the usual charge. This means the
splitting of families, the tearing apart of friends. In one instance
a woman member was expelled. Her husband was instructed to leave her
and the children. When he refused, he was expelled. Another member who
remained friendly was also ousted. It becomes a dizzy merry-go-round of
personal spleen.
Once a communist is expelled and there is a likelihood that he might
become a government witness, then the communists go to work to
compile such information as is available to discourage the witness
from testifying for fear of exposure or of being discredited in
cross-examination by a communist lawyer. In one case a woman rose to
a prominent position in the Party. When she later left the Party, the
communists reportedly compiled a large file of her early indiscretions
and weaknesses. Consequently, she has always been most reluctant to
testify.
Communist discipline has another facet often difficult for noncommunists
to understand. In some instances penalties, expulsions, and exposure
are not enough; the culprit must pay with his life. Nothing less is
satisfactory. The world has witnessed, both in Russia and in the
satellites, highly publicized “purge” trials.
The “crime” was not opposition to the Party, lack of loyalty, or
unwillingness to sacrifice everything for communism. Rather, these
victims were renowned for their devotion, often having spent their entire
lives in the movement. Suddenly, within days, their whole position was
overturned. They were accused of trying to destroy the very thing they
had labored so long to create. How does this make sense?
Communism is cannibalistic. Its servants are periodically offered as
sacrifices on the communist altar. If something goes wrong, the trouble
lies, in communist eyes, not in the policy decreed on high but in its
human instruments. Whenever the “infallible science” of Marxism-Leninism
has been incorrectly applied, disciplinary action must follow.
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