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EDITORIAL NOTE by Kenneth Goff
From May 2, 1936, to October 10, 1939, I was
a dues-paying member of the Communist Party, operating under my own name,
Kenneth Goff, and also the alias John Keats. In 1939, I voluntarily appeared
before the Un-American Activities Committee in Washington, D.C., which was
chairmanned at that time by Martin Dies, and my testimony can be found in
Volume 9 of that year's Congressional Report.During the period that I was a member of the
Communist Party, I attended their school which was located at 113 E. Wells
St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and operated under the name Eugene Debs Labor
School. Here we were trained in all phases of warfare, both psychological
and physical, for the destruction of the Capitalistic society and Christian
civilization.In one portion of our studies we went
thoroughly into the matter of psychopolitics. This was the art of capturing
the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake
mental health -- the subjecting of whole nations of people to the
rule of the Kremlin by capturing their minds. We were taught that the
degradation of the populace is less inhuman than their destruction by
bombs.... If a people can be conquered in the absence of war, the end of war
will have been achieved without the destructions of war.During the past few years, I have noted with
horror the increase of psychopolitical warfare upon the American public.
First, in the brainwashing of our boys in Korea, and then in the well
financed drive of mental health propaganda by left-wing pressure groups,
wherein many of our states have passed Bills which can well be used by the
enemies of America to subject to torture and imprisonment, those who preach
the gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and who oppose the menace
of Communism.....This book was used in underground schools,
and contains the address of Beria to the American students in the Lenin
University prior to 1936. The text in the book in general is from the
Communist Manual of Instructions of Psychopolitical Warfare, and was
used in America for the training of Communist cadre. The only revision
in this book is the summary, which was added by the Communists after the
atomic bomb came into being. In its contents you can see the diabolical plot
of the enemies of Christ and America, as they seek to conquer our
nation by subjecting the minds of our people to their will by various
sinister means.This manual of the Communist Party should be
in the hands of every loyal American, that they may be alerted to the fact
that it is not always by armies and guns that a nation is conquered.
Kenneth Goff
AN ADDRESS BY
LAVRENT
PAVLOVICH BERIAAmerican students at the Lenin University, I
welcome your attendance at these classes on Psychopolitics....By psychopolitics our chief goals are
effectively carried forward. To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture
of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown
in chaos, distrust, economic depression and
scientific
turmoil. At least a weary populace can seek peace only in our
offered Communist State, at last only Communism can resolve the problems of
the masses.A psychopolitician must work hard to produce
the maximum chaos in the fields of "mental healing." He must recruit and use
all the agencies and facilities of "mental healing." He must labor to
increase the personnel and facilities of "mental healing" until at last the
entire field of mental science is entirely dominated by Communist principles
and desires.To achieve these goals the psychopolitician
must crush every "home-grown" variety of mental healing in America. Actual
teachings of James, Eddy and Pentecostal Bible faith healers amongst your
misguided people must be swept aside. They must be discredited, defamed,
arrested, stamped upon even by their own government until there is no credit
in them and only Communist-oriented "healing" remains. You must work until
every teacher of psychology unknowingly or knowingly teaches only Communist
doctrine under the guise of "psychology." You must labor until every doctor
and psychiatrist is either a psycho-politician or an unwitting assistant to
our aims.You must labor until we have dominion over
the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation. You must
achieve such disrepute for the state of insanity and such authority over its
pronouncement that not one statement so labeled could again be given
credence by his people. you must work until suicide arising from mental
imbalance is common and calls forth no general investigation or remark.With the institutions for the insane you have
in your country prisons which can hold a million persons and can hold them
without civil rights or any hope of freedom. And upon these people can be
practiced shock and surgery so that never again will they draw a sane
breath. You must make these treatments common and accepted. And you must
sweep aside any treatment or any group of persons seeking to treat by
effective means.You must dominate as respected men the fields
of psychiatry and psychology. You must dominate the hospitals and
universities. You must carry forward the myth that only a European doctor is
competent in the field of insanity and thus excuse amongst you the high
incidence of foreign birth and training. If and when we seize Vienna, you
shall have then a common ground of meeting and can come and take your
instructions as worshippers of Freud along with other psychiatrists....You can change their loyalties by
psychopolitics. Given a short time with a psychopolitician you can alter
forever their loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader
in his own country, or you can destroy his mind....In a Capitalistic state you are aided on all
sides by the corruption of the philosophy of man and the times. You will
discover that everything will aid you in your campaign to seize, control and
use all "mental healing" to spread our doctrine and rid us of our enemies
within their own borders.Use the courts, use the judges, use the
Constitution of the country, use its medical societies and its laws to
further our ends. Do not stint in your labor in this direction. And when you
have succeeded you will discover that you can now effect your own
legislation at will and you can, by careful organization of healing
societies, by constant campaign about the terrors of society, by pretense as
to your effectiveness make you Capitalist himself, by his own
appropriations, finance a large portion of the quiet Communist conquest of
the nation.By psychopolitics create chaos. Leave a
nation leaderless. Kill our enemies. And bring to Earth, through Communism,
the greatest peace Man has ever known.Thank You
CHAPTER I
THE HISTORY AND DEFINITION OF
PSYCHOPOLITICSAlthough punishment for its own sake may not
be entirely without recompense, it is, nevertheless, true that the end and
goal of all punishment is the indoctrination of the person being punished
with an idea, whether that idea be one of restraint or obedience.In that any ruler has, from time beyond
memory, needed the obedience of his subject in order to accomplish his ends,
he has thus resorted to punishment. This is true of every tribe and state in
the history of Man. Today, Russian culture has evolved more certain and
definite methods of aligning and securing the loyalties of persons and
populace, and of enforcing obedience upon them. This modern outgrowth of old
practice is called Psychopolitics.The stupidity and narrowness of nations not
blessed with Russian reasoning has caused them to rely upon practices which
are, today, too ancient and out-moded for the rapid and heroic pace of our
time. And in view of the tremendous advance of Russian Culture in the field
of mental technologies, begun with the glorious work of Pavlov and carried
forward so ably by later Russians, it would be strange that an art and
science would not evolve totally devoted to the aligning of loyalties and
extracting the obedience of individuals and multitudes.Thus we see that psychopolitical procedures
are a natural outgrowth of practices as old as Man, practices which are
current in every group of men throughout the world. Thus, in psychopolitical
procedures there is no ethical problem, since it is obvious and evident that
Man is always coerced against his will to the greater good of the State,
whether by economic gains or indoctrination into the wishes and desires of
the State.Basically, Man is an animal. He is an animal
which has been given a civilized veneer. Man is a collective animal, grouped
together for his own protection before the threat of the environment. Those
who so group and control him must have in their possession specialized
techniques to direct the vagaries and energies of the animal Man toward
greater efficiency in the accomplishment of the goals of the State.Psychopolitics, in one form or another, have
long been used in Russia, but the subject is all but unknown outside the
borders of our nation, save only where we have carefully transplanted our
information and where it is used for the greater good of the nation.....The subject of Psychopolitics breaks down
into several categories, each a natural and logical proceeding from the
last. Its first subject is the constitution and anatomy of Man, himself, as
a political organism. The next is an examination of Man as an economic
organism, as this might be controlled by his desires. The next is
classification of State goals for the individual and masses. The next is an
examination of loyalties. The next is the general subject of obedience. The
next is the anatomy of the stimulus-response mechanisms of Man. The next is
he subjects of shock and endurance. The next is categories of experience.
The next is the catalyzing and aligning of experience. The next is the use
of drugs. The next is the use of implantation. The next is the general
application of Psychopolitics within Russia. The next is the organizations
outside Russia, their composition and activity. The next is the creation of
slave philosophy in a hostile nation. The next is countering anti-psychopolitical
activities abroad, and the final one, the destiny of psychopolitical rule in
a scientific age. To this might be added many sub categories, such as the
nullification of modern weapons by psychopolitical activity.The strength and power of Psychopolitics
cannot be overestimated, particularly when used in a nation decayed by
pseudo-intellectualism, where exploitation of the masses combines readily
with psychopolitical actions, and particularly where the greed of
Capitalistic or Monarchial regimes has already brought about an overwhelming
incidence of neurosis which can be employed as the groundwork for
psychopolitical action and psychopolitical corps.It is part of your mission, student, to
prevent psychopolitical activity to the detriment of the Russian State, just
as it is your mission to carry forward in our nation and outside it, if you
are so assigned, the missions and goals of Psychopolitics. No agent of
Russian could be even remotely effective without a thorough grounding in
Psychopolitics, and so you carry forward with you a Russian trust to use
well what you are learning here.
CHAPTER II
THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN AS A
POLITICAL ORGANISMMan is already a colonial aggregation of
cells, and to consider him an individual would be an error. Colonies of
cells have gathered together as one organ or another of the body, and then
these organs have, themselves, gathered together to form the whole. Thus we
see that man, himself, is already a political organism, even if we do not
consider a mass of men.Sickness could be considered to be a
disloyalty to the remaining organisms on the part of one organism. This
disloyalty, becoming apparent, brings about a revolt of some part of the
anatomy against the remaining whole, and thus we have, in effect, an
internal revolution. The heart, becoming disaffected, falls away from close
membership and service to the remainder of the organism, and we discover the
entire body in all of its activities is disrupted because of the
revolutionary activity of the heart. The heart is in revolt because it
cannot or will not co-operate with the remainder of the body. If we permit
the heart thus to revolt, the kidneys, taking the example of the heart, may
in their turn rebel and cease to work for the good of the organism. This
rebellion, multiplying to the other organs and the glandular system, brings
about the death of the "individual." We can see with easy that the revolt is
death, that the revolt of any part of the organism results in death. Thus we
see that there can be no compromise with rebellion.Like the "individual" man, the State is a
collection of aggregations. The political entities within the State must,
all of them, co-operate for the greater good of the State lest the State
itself fall asunder and die, for with the disaffection of any single
distrust we discover and example set for other districts, and we discover,
at length, the entire State falling. This is the danger of revolution.Look at Earth. We see here one entire
organism. The organism of Earth is an individual organism. Earth has as its
organs the various races and nations of men. Where one of these is permitted
to remain disaffected, Earth itself is threatened with death. The threatened
rebellion of one country, no matter now small, against the total organism of
Earth, would find Earth sick, and the cultural state of man to suffer in
consequence . Thus, the putrescent illness of Capitalist States, spreading
their puss and bacteria into the healthy countries of the world would not do
otherwise than bring about the death of Earth, unless these ill organisms
are brought into loyalty and obedience and made to function for the greater
good of the world-wide State.The constitution of Man is so composed that
the individual cannot function efficiently without the alignment of each and
every part and organ of his anatomy. As the average individual is incapable,
in an unformed and uncultured state, as witness the barbarians of the
jungle, so must he be trained into a co-ordination of his organic functions
by exercise, education, and work toward specific goals. We particularly and
specifically note that the individual must be directed from without to
accomplish his exercise, education, and work. He must be made to realize
this, for only then can he be made to function efficiently in the role
assigned to him.The tenets of rugged individualism, personal
determinism, self-will, imagination, and personal creativeness are alike in
the masses antipathetic to the good of the Greater State. These willful and
unaligned forces are no more than illnesses which will bring about the
disaffection, disunity, and at length the collapse of the group to which the
individual is attached.The constitution of Man lends itself easily
and thoroughly to certain and positive regulation from without of all of its
functions, including those of thinking, obedience, and loyalty, and these
things must be controlled if a greater State is to ensue.While it may seem desirable to the surgeon to
amputate one or another limb or organ in order to save the remainder, it
must be pointed out that this expediency is not entirely possible of
accomplishment where one considers entire nations. A body deprived of organs
can be observed to be lessened by its effectiveness. The world deprived of
the workers now enslaved by the insane and nonsensical idiocies of the
Capitalists and Monarchs of Earth, would, if removed, create a certain
disability in the world-wide State. Just as we see the victor forced to
rehabilitate the population of a conquered country at the end of a war, thus
any effort to depopulate a disaffected portion of the world might have some
consequence. However, let us consider the inroad of virus and bacteria
hostile to the organism, and we see that unless we can conquer the germ, the
organ or organism which it is attacking will, itself, suffer.In any State we have certain individuals who
operate in the role of the virus and germ, and these, attacking the
population or any group within the population, produce, by their self-willed
greed, a sickness in the organ, which then generally spreads to the whole.The constitution of Man as an individual
body, or the constitution of a State or a portion of the State as a
political organism are analogous. It is the mission of Psychopolitics first
to align the obedience and goals of the group, and then maintain their
alignment by the eradication of the effectiveness of the persons and
personalities which might swerve the group towards disaffection. In our own
nation, where things are better managed and where reason reigns above all
else, it is not difficult to eradicate the self-willed bacteria which might
attack one of our political entities. But in the field of conquest, in
nations less enlightened, where the Russian State does not yet have power,
it is not as feasible to remove the entire self-willed individual.
Psychopolitics makes it possible to remove that art of his personality
which, in itself, is making havoc with the person's own constitution as well
as the group with which the person is connected.If the animal man were permitted to continue
undisturbed by counter-revolutionary propaganda, if he were left to work
under the well-planned management of the State, we would discover little
sickness amongst Man, and we would discover no sickness in the State. But
where the individual is troubled by conflicting propaganda, where he is made
the effect of revolutionary activities, where he is permitted to think
thoughts critical of the State itself, where he is permitted to question of
those in whose natural charge he falls, we would discover his constitution
to suffer. We would discover, from this disaffection, the additional
disaffection of his heart and of other portions of his anatomy;. So certain
is this principle that when one finds a sick individual, could one search
deeply enough, he would discover a mis-aligned loyalty and an interrupted
obedience to that person's group unit.There are those who foolishly have embarked
upon some spiritual Alice-in-Wonderland voyage into what they call the
"subconscious" or the "unconscious" mind, and who, under the guise of
"psychotherapy" would seek to make well the disaffection of body organs, but
it is to be noted that their results are singularly lacking in success.
There is no strength in such an approach. When hypnotism was first invented
in Russia, it was observed that all that was necessary was to command the
unresisting individual to be well in order, many times, to accomplish that
fact. The limitation of hypnotism was that many subjects were not
susceptible to its uses, and thus hypnotism has had to be improved upon in
order to increase the suggestibility of individuals who would not otherwise
be reached. Thus, any nation has had the experience of growing well again,
as a whole organism, when placing sufficient force in play against a
disaffected group. Just as in hypnotism any organ can be commanded into
greater loyalty and obedience, so can any political group be commanded into
greater loyalty and obedience should sufficient force be employed. However,
force often brings about destruction and it is occasionally not feasible to
use broad mass force t o accomplish the ends in view. Thus, it is necessary
to align the individual against his desire not to conform.Just as it is a recognized truth that Man
must conform to his environment, so it is a recognized truth, and will
become more so as the years proceed, that even the body of Man can be
commanded into health.The constitution of Man renders itself
peculiarly adapted to re-alignment of loyalties. Where these loyalties are
indigestible to the constitution of the individual itself, such as loyalties
to the 'petit bourgeoisie,' the Capitalist, to anti-Russian ideas, we find
the individual body peculiarly susceptible to sickness, and thus we can
clearly understand the epidemics, illnesses, mass-neuroses, tumults and
confusions of the United States and other capitalist countries. Here we find
the worker improperly and incorrectly loyal, and thus we find the worker
ill. To save him and establish him correctly and properly upon his goal
toward a greater State, it is an overpowering necessity to make it possible
for him to grant his loyalties in a correct direction. In that his loyalties
are swerved and his obedience cravenly demanded by persons antipathetic to
his general good, and in that these persons are few, even in a Capitalist
nation, the goal and direction of Psychopolitics is clearly understood. To
benefit the worker in such a plight, it is necessary to eradicate, by
general propaganda, by other means, and by his own co-operation, and self-willedness
of perverted leaders. It is necessary, as well, to indoctrinate the educated
strata into the tenets and principles of co-operation with the environment,
and thus to insure the worker less warped leadership, less craven doctrine,
and more co-operation with the ideas and ideals of the Communist State.The technologies of Psychopolitics are
directed to this end.
CHAPTER III
MAN AS AN ECONOMIC ORGANISMMan is subject to certain desires and needs
which are as natural to his being as they are to that of any other animal.
Man, however, has the peculiarity of exaggerating some of these beyond the
bounds of reason. This is obvious through the growth of leisure classes,
pseudo-intellectual groups, the "petit bourgeoisie," Capitalism, and ott her
ills.It has been said, with truth, that one tenth
of a man's life is concerned with politics and nine-tenths with economics.
Without food, the individual dies. Without clothing, he freezes. Without
houses and weapons, he is prey to the starving wolves. The acquisition of
sufficient items to answer these necessities of food, clothing and shelter,
in reason, is the natural right of a member of an enlightened State. An
excess of such items brings about unrest and disquiet. The presence of
luxury items and materials, and the artificial creation and whetting of
appetites, as in Capitalist advertising, are certain to accentuate the
less-desirable characteristics of Man.The individual is an economic organism, in
that he requires a certain amount of food, a certain amount of water, and
must hold within himself a certain amount of heat in order to live. When he
has more food than he can eat, more clothing than he needs to protect him,
he then enters upon a certain idleness which dulls his wits and awareness,
and makes him prey to difficulties which, in a less toxic state, he would
have foreseen and avoided. Thus, we have a glut of being a menace to the
individual.It is no less different in a group. Where the
group acquires too much, its awareness of its own fellows and of the
environment is accordingly reduced, and the effectiveness the group in
general is lost.The maintaining of a balance between gluttony
and need is the province of Economics proper, and is the fit subject and
concern of the Communist State.Desire and want are a state of mind.
Individuals can be educated into desiring and wanting more than they can
ever possibly obtain, and such individuals are unhappy. Most of the
self-willed characteristics of the Capitalists come entirely from greed. He
exploits the worker far beyond any necessity on his own part, as a
Capitalist, to need.In a nation where economic balances are not
controlled, the appetite of the individual is unduly whetted by enchanting
and fanciful persuasions to desire, and a type of insanity ensues, where
each individual is persuaded to possess more than he can use, and to possess
it even at the expense of his fellows.There is, in economic balances, the other
side. Too great and too long privation can bring about unhealthy desires,
which, in themselves, accumulate in left action, more than the individual
can use. Poverty, itself, as carefully cultivated in Capitalist States, can
bring about an imbalance of acquisition. Just as a vacuum will pull into it
masses, in a country where enforced privation upon the masses is permitted,
and where desire is artificially whetted, need turns to greed, and one
easily discovers in such states exploitation of the many for the benefit of
the few.If one, by the technologies of Psychopolitics,
were to dull the excessive greed in the few who possess it, the worker would
be freed to seek a more natural balance.Here we have two extremes. Either one of them
are an insanity. If we wish to create an insanity we need only glut or
deprive an individual at long length beyond the ability to withstand and we
have a mental imbalance. A simple example of this is the alternation of too
low with too high pressures in a chamber, an excellent psychopolitical
procedure. The rapidly varied pressure brings about a chaos wherein the
individual will cannot act and where other wills then, perforce, assume
control.Essentially, in an entire country, one must
remove the greedy by whatever means and must then create and continue a
semi-privation in the masses in order to command and utterly control the
nation.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 take advantage only of the cycles of
booms and depressions inherent in Capitalistic nations in order to assert of
more and more 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 to divorce their control of the State. During
a depression one must only point out that it ensued 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 the economic measures and Communist goals connected with them.The masses must at last come to believe that
only excessive taxation of the rich can deliver them of the "burdensome
leisure class" and can thus be brought to accept such a thing as income tax,
a Marxist principle smoothly slid into Capitalistic framework in 1909-1913
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. Such success as the Income Tax law, had it been followed
thoroughly 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 not be that the United States will 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 disturbances 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, ever 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 into 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" into confidential contact
with the family and from this point on the very most must then be made of
that contact.Communism could best succeed if at the side
of every rich or influential man there could be placed a psychopolitical
operator, an undoubted authority in the field of "mental healing" who could
then by his advice or through the medium of a wife or daughter by his guided
options 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 things of war as attack with force performed by soldiers and
machines. He does not know that a more effective if somewhat longer w ar can
be fought with bread or, in our case, with drugs and the wisdom of our art.
The Capitalist has never won a war in truth. The psychopolitician is having
little trouble winning this one.
CHAPTER IV
STATE GOALS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL AND MASSESJust as we would discover an individual to be
ill, whose organs, each one, had a different goal from the rest, so we
discover the individuals and the State to be ill where goals are not
rigorously codified and enforced.There are those who, in less enlightened
times, gave Man to believe that goals should be personally sought and held,
and that, indeed, Man's entire impulse toward higher things stemmed from
Freedom. We must remember that the same peoples who embraced this philosophy
also continued in Man the myth of spiritual existence.All goals proceed from duress. Life is a
continuous escape. Without force and threat, there can be no striving.
Without pain, there can be no desire to escape from pain. Without the threat
of punishment, there can be no gain. Without duress and command, there can
be no alignment of bodily functions. Without rigorous and forthright
control, there ca be no accomplished goals for the State.Goals of the State should be formulated by
the State for the obedience and concurrence of the individuals within that
State. A State without goals so formulated is a sick State. A State without
the power and forthright wish to enforce its goals is a sick State.When an order is issued by the Communist
State, and is not obeyed, a sickness will be discovered to ensue. Where
obedience fails, the masses suffer.State goals depend upon loyalty and obedience
for their accomplishment. When one discovers a State goal to be interpreted,
one discovers inevitably that there has been an interposition of
self-willedness, of greed, of idleness, or of rugged individualism and
self-centered initiative.The interruption of a State goal will be discovered
as having been interrupted by a person whose disloyalty and disobedience is
the direct result of his own mis-alignment with life.It is not always necessary to remove the
individual. It is possible to remove his self-willed tendencies to the
improvement of the goals and gains of the whole. The technologies of
Psychopolitics are graduated upon the scale which starts somewhat above the
removal of the individual himself, upward toward the removal only of those
tendencies which bring about his lack of co-operation.It is not enough for the State to have goals.
These goals, once put forward, depend upon their completion, upon the
loyalty and obedience of the workers. These, engaged for the most part, in
hard labors, have little time for idle speculation, which is good. But,
above them, unfortunately, there must be foremen of one or another position,
and one of whom might have sufficient idleness and lack of physical
occupation to cause some disaffecting independency in his conduct and
behaviour.Psychopolitics remedies this tendency toward
disaffection when it exceeds the common persuasions of the immediate
superiors of the person in question.
CHAPTER V
AN EXAMINATION OF LOYALTIESIf loyalty is so important in the economic
and social structure, it is necessary to examine it further as itself.In the field of Psychopolitics, loyalty means
simply 'alignment.' It means, more fully, alignment with the goals of the
Communist State. Disloyalty means entirely mis-alignment, and more broadly,
mis-alignment with the goals of the Communist State.When we consider that the goals of the
Communist State are to the best possible benefit of the masses, we can see
that disloyalty, as a term, can embrace Democratic alignment. Loyalty to
persons not communistically indoctrinated would be quite plainly a
mis-alignment.The cure of disloyalty is entirely contained
in the principles of alignment. All that is necessary to do, where
disloyalty is encountered, is to align the purposes of the individual toward
the goals of Communism, and it will be discovered that a great many
circumstances hitherto distasteful in his existence will cease to exist.
A heart, or a kidney in rebellion against the
remainder of the organism is being disloyal to the remainder of the
organism. To cure the heart or kidney it is actually only necessary to bring
its activities into alignment with the remainder of the body.The technologies of Psychopolitics adequately
demonstrate the workability of this. Mild shock of the electric variety can,
and does, produce the re-cooperation of a rebellious body organ. It is the
shock and punishment of surgery which, in the main, accomplishes the
re-alignment of a disaffected portion of the body, rather than the surgery
itself. It is the bombardment of X-Rays, rather than the therapeutic value
of X-Rays which causes some disaffected organ to once again turn its
attention to the support of the general organism.While it is not borne out that electric shock
has any therapeutic value, so far as making the individual more sane, it is
adequately brought out that its punishment value will create in the patient
a greater co-operative attitude. Brain surgery has no statistical data to
recommend it beyond its removal of the individual personality from amongst
the paths of organs which were not permitted to co-operate. These two
Russian developments have never pretended to alter the state of sanity. They
are only effective and workable in introducing an adequate punishment
mechanism to the personality to make it cease and desist from its courses
and egotistical direction of the anatomy itself. It is the violence of the
electric shock and the surgery which is useful in subduing the recalcitrant
personality, which is all that stands in the road of the masses or the
State. It is occasionally to be discovered that the removal of the
preventing personality by shock and surgery then permits the regrowth and
re-establishment of organs which have been rebelled against by that
personality. In what a well-regulated state is composed of organisms, not
personalities, the use of electric shock and brain surgery in Psychopolitics
is clearly demonstrated.The changing of loyalty consists, in its
primary step, of the eradication of existing loyalties. This can be done in
one of two ways. First, by demonstrating that previously existing loyalties
have brought about perilous physical circumstances, such as imprisonment,
lack of recognition, duress, or privation, and second by eradicating the
personality itself.The first is accomplished by a steady and
continuous indoctrination of the individual in the belief that his previous
loyalties have been granted to an unworthy source. One of the primary
instances in this is creating circumstances which apparently derive from the
target of his loyalties, so as to rebuff the individual. As part of this
there is the creation of a state of mind in the individual, by actually
placing him under duress, and then furnishing him with false evidence to
demonstrate that the target of his previous loyalties is, itself, the course
of the duress. Another portion of this same method consists of defaming or
degrading the individual whose loyalties are to be changed to the target of
his loyalties, i.e., superiors or government, to such a degree that this
target, at length, actually does hold the individual in disrepute, and so
does rebuff him and serve to convince him that his loyalties have been
misplaced. These are the milder methods, but have proven extremely
effective. The greatest drawback in their practice is that they require time
and concentration, the manufacture of false evidence, and a psychopolitical
operator's time.In moments of expediency, of which there are
many, the personality itself can be rearranged by shock, surgery, duress,
privation, and in particular, that best of psychopolitical techniques,
implantation, with the technologies of neo-hypnotism. Such duress must have
in its first part a defamation of the loyalties, and in its second, the
implantation of new loyalties. A good and experienced psychopolitical
operator, working under the most favorable circumstances, can, by the use of
psychopolitical technologies, alter the loyalties of an individual so deftly
that his own companions will not suspect that they have changed. This,
however, requires considerably more finesse than is usually necessary to the
situation. Mass neo-hypnotism can accomplish more or less the same results
when guided by an experienced psychopolitical operator. An end goal in such
a procedure would be the alteration of the loyalties of an entire nation in
a short period of time by mass neo-hypnotism, a thing which has been
effectively accomplished among the less-usable states of Russia.It is adequately demonstrated that loyalty is
entirely lacking in that mythical commodity known as 'spiritual quality.'
Loyalty is entirely a thing of dependence, economic or mental, and can be
changed by the crudest implementations. Observation of workers in their
factories or fields demonstrates that they easily grant loyalty to a foreman
or a woman, and then as easily abandon it and substitute another individual,
revulsing, at the same time, toward the person to whom loyalty was primarily
granted. The queasy insecurity of the masses in Capitalistic nations finds
this more common than in an enlightened State, such as Russia. In
Capitalistic states, dependencies are so craven, wants and privations are so
exaggerated, that loyalty is entirely without ethical foundation and exists
only in the realm of dependency, duress, or demand.It is fortunate that Communism so truly
approaches an ideal state of mind, for this brings a certain easiness into
any changing loyalties, since all other philosophies extant and practiced on
Earth today are degraded and debased, compared to Communism. It is then with
a certain security that a psychopolitical operator functions, for he knows
that he can change the loyalty of an individual to a more ideal level by
reason alone, and only expediency makes it necessary to employ the various
shifts of psychopolitical technology. Any man who cannot be persuaded into
Communist rationale is, of course, to be regarded as somewhat less than
sane, and it is, therefore completely justified to use the techniques of
insanity upon the non-Communist.In order to change loyalty it is necessary to
establish first the existing loyalties of the individual. The task is made
very simple in view of the fact that Capitalistic and Fascistic nations have
no great security in the loyalty of their subjects. And it may be found that
the loyalties of the subjects, as we call any person against whom
psychopolitical technology is to be exerted, are already too faint to
require eradication. It is generally only necessary to persuade with the
rationale and overwhelming reasonability of Communism to have the person
grant his loyalty to the Russian State. However, regulated only by the
importance of the subject, no great amount of time should be expended upon
the individual, but emotional duress, or electric shock, or brain surgery
should be resorted to, should Communist propaganda persuasion fail. In a
case of a very important person, it may be necessary to utilize the more
delicate technologies of Psychopolitics so as to place the per son himself,
and his associates, in ignorance of the operation. In this case a simple
implantation is used, with a maximum duress and command value. Only the most
skilled psychopolitical operator should be employed on such a project, as in
this case of the very important person, for a bungling might disclose the
tampering with his mental processes. It is much more highly recommended, if
there is any doubt whatever about the success of an operation against an
important person, to select out as a psychopolitical target persons i his
vicinity in whom he is emotionally involved. His wife or children normally
furnish the best targets, and these can be operated against without
restraint. In securing the loyalty of a very important person one must place
at his side a constant pleader who enters a sexual or familial chord into
the situation on the side of Communism. It may not be necessary to make a
Communist out of the wife, or the children, or one of the children, but it
might prove efficacious to do so. In most instances, however, this is not
possible. By the use of various drugs, it is, in this modern age, and well
within the realm of psychopolitical reality, entirely too easy to bring
about a state of severe neurosis or insanity in the wife or children, and
thus pass them, with full consent of the important person, and the
government in which he exists, or the bureau in which he is operating, into
the hands of a psychopolitical operator, who then in his own laboratory,
without restraint or fear of investigation or censor, can, with electric
shock, surgery, sexual attack, drugs, or other useful means, degrade or
entirely alter the personality of a family member, and create in that person
a psychopolitical slave subject who, then, on command or signal, will
perform outrageous actions, thus discrediting the important person, or will
demand, on a more delicate level, that certain measures be taken by the
important person, which measures are, of course, dictated by the
psychopolitical operator.Usually when the party has no real interest
in the activities of decisions of the important person, but merely wishes to
remove him from effective action, the attention of the psychopolitical
operator need not to be so intense, and the person need only be passed into
the hands of some unwitting mental practitioner, who taught as he is by
psychopolitical operators, will bring about sufficient embarrassment.When the loyalty of an individual cannot be
swerved, and where the opinion, weight, or effectiveness of the individual
stands firmly in the road of Communist goals, it is usually best to occasion
a mild neurosis in the person by any available means, and then, having
carefully given him a history of mental imbalance, to see to it that he
disposes of himself by suicide, or by bringing about his demise in such a
way as to resemble suicide. Psychopolitical operators have handled such
situations skillfully tens of thousands of times, within and without Russia.It is a firm principle of Psychopolitics that
the person to be destroyed must be involved at first or second hand in the
stigma of insanity, and must have been placed in contact with
psychopolitical operators or persons trained by them, with a maximum amount
of tumult and publicity. The stigma of insanity is properly placed at the
door of such persons' reputations and is held there firmly by bringing about
irrational acts, either on his own part or in his vicinity. Such an activity
can be classified as a partial destruction of alignment, and if this
destruction is carried forward to its furthest extent the mis-alignment on
the subject of all loyalties can be considered to be complete, and alignment
on new loyalties can be embarked upon safely. By bringing about insanity or
suicide on the part of the wife of an important political personage, a
sufficient mis-alignment has been instigated to change his attitude. And
this, carried forward firmly, or assisted by psychopolitical implantation
can begin the rebuilding of his loyalties, but now slanted in a more proper
and fitting direction.Another reason for the alignment of
psychopolitical activities with the mis-alignment of insanity in that
insanity, itself, is a despised and disgraced state, and anything connected
with it is lightly viewed. Thus, a psychopolitical operator, working in the
vicinity of an insane person, can refute and disprove any accusations made
against him by demonstrating that the family itself is tainted with mental
imbalance. This is surprisingly effective in Capitalistic countries where
insanity is so thoroughly feared that no one would dream of investigating
any circumstances in its vicinity. Psychopolitical propaganda works
constantly and must work constantly to increase and build up this aura of
mystery surrounding insanity, and must emphasize the horribleness of
insanity in order to excuse non-therapeutic actions taken against the
insane. Particularly in Capitalistic countries, an insane person has no
rights under law. No person who is insane may hold property. No person who
is insane may testify. Thus, we have an excellent road along which we can
travel toward our certain goal and destiny.Entirely by bringing about public conviction
that the sanity of a person is in question, it is possible to discount and
eradicate all of the goals and activities of that person. By demonstrating
the insanity of a group, or even a government, it is possible, then, to
cause its people to disavow it. By magnifying the general human reaction to
insanity, through keeping the subject of insanity, itself, forever before
the public eye, and then, by utilizing this reaction by causing a revulsion
on the part of a populace against its leaders or leaders, it is possible to
stop any government or movement.It is important to know that the entire
subject of loyalty is thus as easily handled as it is. One of the first and
foremost missions of the psychopolitician is to make an attack upon
Communism and insanity synonymous. It should become the definition of
insanity, of the paranoid variety, that "A paranoid believes he is being
attacked by Communists." Thus, at once the support of the individual so
attacking Communism will fall away and wither.Instead of executing national leaders,
suicide for them should be arranged under circumstances which question their
demise. In this way we can select out all opposition to the Communist
extension into the social orders of the world, and render populace who would
oppose us leaderless, and bring about a state of chaos or mis-alignment into
which we can thrust, with great simplicity, the clear and forceful doctrines
of Communism.The cleverness of our attack in this field of
Psychopolitics is adequate to avoid the understanding of the layman and the
usual stupid official, and by operating entirely under the banner of
authority, with the oft-repeated statement that the principles of
psychotherapy are too devious for common understanding, an entire revolution
can be effected without the suspicion of a populace until it is an
accomplished fact.As insanity is the maximum mis-alignment, it
can be grasped to be the maximum weapon in severance of loyalties to leaders
and old social orders. Thus, it is of the utmost importance that
psychopolitical operative infiltrate the healing arts of a nation marked for
conquest, and bring that quarter continuous pressure against the population
and the government until at last the conquest is affected. This is the
subject and goal of Psychopolitics, itself.In rearranging loyalties we must have a
command of their values. In the animal the first loyalty is to himself. This
is destroyed by demonstrating errors to him, showing him that he does not
remember, cannot act or does not trust himself. The second loyalty is to his
family unit, his parents and brothers and sisters. This is destroyed by
making a family unit economically non-dependent, by lessening the value of
marriage, by making an easiness of divorce and by raising the children
whenever possible by the State. The next loyalty is to his friends and local
environment. This is destroyed by lowering his tru st and bringing about
reportings upon him allegedly by his fellows or the town or village
authorities. The next is to the State and this, for the purposes of
Communism, is the only loyalty which should exist once the state is founded
as a Communist State. To destroy loyalty to the State all manner of
forbidding for youth must be put into effect so as to disenfranchise them as
members of the Capitalist state and, by promises of a better lot under
Communism, to gain their loyalty to a Communist movement.Denying a Capitalist country easy access to
courts, bringing about and supporting propaganda to destroy the home,
creating and continuous juvenile delinquentcy, forcing upon the state all
manner of practices to divorce the child from it will in the end create
chaos necessary to Communism.Under the saccharine guise of assistance to
them, rigorous child labor laws are the best means to deny the child any
right in society. By refusing to let him earn, by forcing him into unwanted
dependence upon a grudging parent, by making certain in other channels that
the parent is never in other than economic stress, the child can be driven
in his teens into revolt. Delinquency will ensue.By making readily available drugs of various
kinds, by giving the teen-ager alcohol, by praising his wildness, by
stimulating him with sex literature and advertising to him or her practices
as taught at the Sexpol, the psychopolitical operator can create the
necessary attitude of chaos, idleness and worthlessness into which can then
be cast the solution which will give the teen ager complete freedom
everywhere --Communism.Should it be possible to continue
conscription beyond any reasonable time by promoting unpopular wars and
other means, the draft can always stand as a further barrier to the progress
of youth in life, destroying any immediate hope to participate in his
nation's civil life.By these means the patriotism of youth for
their Capitalistic flag can be dulled to a point where they are no longer
dangerous as soldiers. While this might require many decades to effect,
Capitalisms short term view will never envision the lengths across which we
can plan.If we could effectively kill the national
pride and patriotism of just one generation, we will have won that country.
Therefore, there must be continual propaganda abroad to undermine the
loyalty of the citizens in general and the teen-ager in particular.The role of the psychopolitical operator in
this is very strong. He can, from his position as an authority on the mind,
advise all manner of destructive measures. He can teach the lack of control
of this child at home. He can instruct, in an optimum situation, the entire
nation in how to handle children -- and instruct them so that the children,
given no control, given no real home, can run wildly about with no
responsibility for their nation or themselves.The mis-alignment of the loyalty of youth to
a Capitalistic nation sets the proper stage for a realignment of their
loyalties toward Communism. Creating a greed for drugs, sexual misbehavior
and uncontrolled freedom and presenting this to them as a benefit of
Communism, will with ease, bring about our alignment.In the case of strong leaders amongst
youthful groups, a psychopolitical operator can work in many ways to use or
discard that leadership. If it is to be used, the character of a girl or boy
must be altered carefully into criminal channels and a control by blackmail,
or other means, must be maintained. But where the leadership is not
susceptible, where it resists all persuasions and might become dangerous to
our Cause, no pains must be spared to direct the attention of the
authorities to that person and to harass him in one way or another until he
can come into the hands of the juvenile authorities. When this has been
effected, it can be hoped that a psychopolitical operator, by reason of
child advisor status, can, in the security of the jail and cloaked by
processes of law, destroy the sanity of that person. Particularly brilliant
scholars, athletes and youth group leaders must be handled in either one of
these two ways.In the matter of guiding the activities of
juvenile courts, the psychopolitical operator entertains here one of his
easier tasks. A Capitalistic nation is so filled with injustice in general
that a little more passes without comment. In juvenile courts there are
always persons with strange appetites whether these be judges or police man
or women. If such do not exist, they can be created. By making available to
them young girls or boys in the "security" of the jail or the detention home
and by appearing with flash cameras or witnesses one becomes equiped with a
whip adequate to direct all the future decisions of that person when these
are needed.The handling of youth cases by courts should
be led further and further away from law and further and further into
"mental problems" until the entire nation thinks of "mental problems"
instead of criminals. This places vacancies everywhere in the courts, in the
offices of district attorneys, or police staffs which could then be filled
with psychopolitical operators and these become the judges of the land by
their influence and into their hands comes the total control of the
criminal, without whose help a revolution cannot ever be accomplished.By stressing this authority over the problems
of youth and adults in courts one day the demand for psychopolitical
operators could become such that even the armed services will use
"authorities on the mind" to work their various justices and when this
occurs, the armed forces of the nation then enter into our hands as solidly
as if we commanded them ourselves. With the slight bonus of having thus a
skilled interrogator near every technician or handler of secret war
apparatus, the country, in even of revolution, as did Germany in 1918 and
1919 will find itself immobilized by its own Army and Navy fully and
entirely in Communist hands.Thus the subject of loyalties and their
re-alignment is in fact the subject of non-armed conquest of an enemy.