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
In seeking to curry favor with labor, communists employ tactics of
calling for immediate demands such as higher wages, a shorter work week,
increased vacations, and an abolition of the high cost of living. To
that end a communist labor tactician calls for putting “... ideological
differences aside in order to work together in behalf of a _single
immediate objective_ or a _number of immediate objectives_ ... the unions
must work together....”
The immediate demand tactics are also employed by the communists to find
favor with Negroes by urging the abolition of “Jim Crow Laws,” “full
representation,” and “the fight for Negro rights.” The controversy on
integration has given the communists a field day.
They also have a program “... to stimulate broad united-front actions in
the rural communities in defense of the economic interests of the farming
masses”; “to weld youth unity”; and to “work still harder” for mothers.
A primary tactic of the Communist Party is to preserve the legal status
of the Party. Thus, any organization which has the duty to investigate or
expose communist activity is singled out for attack. For years the Party
has campaigned against the House Committee on Un-American Activities,
the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, and the Senate Investigating
Committee. The Department of Justice and the FBI have not been spared,
and we have come to judge our effectiveness by the intensity of communist
attacks.
The Red Fascists have long followed the practice of making full use
of democratic liberties: elections, lawful agitation and propaganda,
and free speech, press, and assembly. Their basic premise: Reap every
advantage possible. However, if it will help, don’t hesitate to use
illegal methods, such as underground operations, terrorism, espionage,
sabotage, lying, cheating. “We have never rejected terror on principle,
nor can we do so. Terror is a form of military operation that may be
usefully applied....” wrote Lenin. Morality is strictly a bourgeois
device. To the communists everything that promotes the revolution is
moral, legal, and beautiful.
Many people are confused by the Party’s abrupt twists and turns, such
as denouncing the United States as an “imperialist” nation from 1939
to 1941, then overnight, after Russia’s entrance into the war, hailing
America as a great ally. Communists often look like frightened rabbits
chasing back and forth. But in reality these “changes in the Party line”
are merely shifting tactics, all designed to promote the ultimate goal of
world revolution. They are not changes in heart.
The Communist Party, USA, has been and is engaged in an all-out war
against American freedom. Its tactics of confusion, retreat, advance,
infiltration, and hypocrisy are in full play. The attack is both legal
and illegal, offensive and defensive, open and concealed.
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