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    THE SOVIET ART OF BRAINWASHING. A synthesis of the

    Russian Textbook on Psyho!o"itis

    PS#$HOPO%ITI$S- the art and science of asserting and maintaining dominion over the thoughts

    and loyalties of individuals, officers, bureaus, and masses, and the effecting of the conquest ofenemy nations through "mental healing."

    $ONTENTS

    Editorial Note

    An Address By Lavrent Pavlovich Beria

    !APE# $% he !istory and &efinition of Psycho'olitics!APE# $$% he onstitution of (an as a Political )rganism

    !APE# $$$% (an as an Economic )rganism

    !APE# $*% +tate oals for the $ndividual and (asses

    !APE# *% An Eamination of Loyalties!APE# *$% he eneral +ubect of )bedience

    !APE# *$$% he !istory and &efinition of Psycho'olitics

    !APE# *$$$% &egradation, +hoc/ and Endurance!APE# $0% he )rgani1ation of (ental !ealth am'aigns

    !APE# 0% onduct 2nder 3ire

    !APE# 0$% he 2se of Psycho'olitics in +'reading ommunism!APE# 0$$% *iolent #emedies

    !APE# 0$$$% #ecruiting of Psycho'olitical &u'es

    !APE# 0$*% he +mashing of #eligious rou's

    !APE# 0*% Pro'osals 4hich (ust Be Avoided!APE# 0*$% $n +ummary

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    E&ITORIA% NOTE

    3rom (ay 5, 6789, to )ctober 6:, 6787, $ ;as a dues-'aying member of the ommunist Party, o'erating

    under my o;n name,

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    AN A&&RESS B# %AVRENT PAV%OVI$H BERIA

    American students at the Lenin 2niversity, $ ;elcome your attendance at these classes on Psycho'olitics.

    Psycho'olitics is an im'ortant if less /no;n division of eo-'olitics. $t is less /no;n because it mustnecessarily deal ;ith highly educated 'ersonnel, the very to' strata of "mental healing."

    By 'sycho'olitics our chief goals are effectively carried for;ard. o 'roduce a maimum of chaos in the

    culture of the enemy is our first most im'ortant ste'. )ur fruits are gro;n in chaos, distrust, economicde'ression and scientific turmoil. At least a ;eary 'o'ulace can see/ 'eace only in our offered ommunist

    +tate, at last only ommunism can resolve the 'roblems of the masses.

    A 'sycho'olitician must ;or/ hard to 'roduce the maimum chaos in the fields of "mental healing." !e mu

    recruit and use all the agencies and facilities of "mental healing." !e must labor to increase the 'ersonnel an

    facilities of "mental healing" until at last the entire field of mental science is entirely dominated by

    ommunist 'rinci'les and desires.

    o achieve these goals the 'sycho'olitician must crush every "home-gro;n" variety of mental healing in

    America. Actual teachings of =ames, Eddy and Pentecostal Bible faith healers amongst your mis-guided

    'eo'le must be s;e't aside. hey must be discredited, defamed, arrested, stam'ed u'on even by their o;ngovernment until there is no credit in them and only ommunist-oriented "healing" remains. ?ou must ;or/

    until every teacher of 'sychology un/no;ingly or /no;ingly teaches only ommunist doctrine under the

    guise of "'sychology.". ?ou must labor until every doctor and 'sychiatrist is either a 'sycho-'olitician or anun;itting assistant to our aims.

    ?ou must labor until ;e have dominion over the minds and bodies of every im'ortant 'erson in your nation?ou must achieve such disre'ute for the state of insanity and such authority over its 'ronouncement that not

    one statement so labeled could again be given credence by his 'eo'le. you must ;or/ until suicide arising

    from mental imbalance is common and calls forth no general investigation or remar/.

    4ith the institutions for the insane you have in your country 'risons ;hich can hold a million 'ersons andcan hold them ;ithout civil rights or any ho'e of freedom. And u'on these 'eo'le can be 'racticed shoc/ an

    surgery so that never again ;ill they dra; a sane breath. ?ou must ma/e these treatments common andacce'ted. And you must s;ee' aside any treatment or any grou' of 'ersons see/ing to treat by effective

    means.

    ?ou must dominate as res'ected men the fields of 'sychiatry and 'sychology. ?ou must dominate thehos'itals and universities. ?ou must carry for;ard the myth that only a Euro'ean doctor is com'etent in the

    field of insanity and thus ecuse amongst you the high incidence of foreign birth and training. $f and ;hen

    ;e sei1e *ienna, you shall have then a common ground of meeting and can come and ta/e your instructionsas ;orshi''ers of 3reud along ;ith other 'sychiatrists.

    Psycho'olitics is a solemn charge. 4ith it you can erase our enemies as insects. ?ou can cri''le the

    efficiency of leaders by stri/ing insanity into their families through the use of drugs. ?ou can ;i'e thema;ay ;ith testimony as to their insanity. By our technologies, you can even bring about insanity itself ;hen

    they seem to resistive.

    ?ou can change their loyalties by 'sycho'olitics. iven a short time ;ith a 'sycho'olitician you can alter

    forever their loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his o;n country, or you can

    destroy his mind.

    !o;ever, you labor under certain dangers. $t may ha''en that remedies for our "treatments" may be

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    discovered. $t may occur that a 'ublic hue and cry may arise against "mental healing." $t may thus occur tha

    all mental healing might be 'laced in the hands of ministers and ta/en out of the hands of our 'sychologistsand 'sychiatrists. But the a'italistic thirst for control, a'italistic in-humanity and general 'ublic terror of

    insanity can be brought to guard against these things. But should they occur, should inde'endent researchers

    actually discover means to undo 'sycho'olitical 'rocedures, you must not rest, you must not eat or slee', yomust not stint one tiniest bit of available money to cam'aign against it, dis-credit it , stri/e it do;n and

    render it void. 3or by an effective means all our actions and researches could be undone.

    $n a a'italistic state you are aided on all sides by the corru'tion of the 'hiloso'hy of man and the times.?ou ;ill discover that everything ;ill aid you in your cam'aign to sei1e, control and use all "mental healing

    to s'read our doctrine and rid us of our enemies ;ithin their o;n borders.

    2se the courts, use the udges, use the onstitution of the country, use its medical societies and its la;s to

    further our ends. &o not stint in your labor in this direction. And ;hen you have succeeded you ;ill discove

    that you can no; effect your o;n legislation at ;ill and you can, by careful organi1ation of healing societieby constant cam'aign about the terrors of society, by 'retense as to your effectiveness ma/e you a'italist

    himself, by his o;n a''ro'riations, finance a large 'ortion of the quiet ommunist conquest of the nation.

    By 'sycho'olitics create chaos. Leave a nation leaderless.

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    $HAPTER I

    THE HISTOR# AN& &EFINITION OF

    PS#$HOPO%ITI$S

    Although 'unishment for its o;n sa/e may not be entirely ;ithout recom'ense, it is, nevertheless, true thatthe end and goal of all 'unishment is the indoctrination of the 'erson being 'unished ;ith an idea, ;hether

    that idea be one of restraint or obedience.

    $n that any ruler has, from time beyond memory, needed the obedience of his subect in order to accom'lishhis ends, he has thus resorted to 'unishment. his is true of every tribe and state in the history of (an.

    oday, #ussian culture has evolved more certain and definite methods of aligning and securing the loyalties

    of 'ersons and 'o'ulace, and of enforcing obedience u'on them. his modern outgro;th of old 'ractice iscalled Psycho'olitics.

    he stu'idity and narro;ness of nations not blessed ;ith #ussian reasoning has caused them to rely u'on

    'ractices ;hich are, today, too ancient and out-moded for the ra'id and heroic 'ace of our time. And in vie;of the tremendous advance of #ussian ulture in the field of mental technologies, begun ;ith the glorious

    ;or/ of Pavlov and carried for;ard so ably by later #ussians, it ;ould be strange that an art and science

    ;ould not evolve totally devoted to the aligning of loyalties and etracting the obedience of individuals and

    multitudes.

    hus ;e see that 'sycho'olitical 'rocedures are a natural outgro;th of 'ractices as old as (an, 'ractices;hich are current in every grou' of men throughout the ;orld. hus, in 'sycho'olitical 'rocedures there is

    no ethical 'roblem, since it is obvious and evident that (an is al;ays coerced against his ;ill to the greater

    good of the +tate, ;hether by economic gains or indoctrination into the ;ishes and desires of the +tate.

    Basically, (an is an animal. !e is an animal ;hich has been given a civili1ed veneer. (an is a collective

    animal, grou'ed together for his o;n 'rotection before the threat of the environment. hose ;ho so grou'

    and control him must have in their 'ossession s'eciali1ed techniques to direct the vagaries and energies ofthe animal (an to;ard greater efficiency in the accom'lishment of the goals of the +tate.

    Psycho'olitics, in one form or another, have long been used in #ussia, but the subect is all but un/no;noutside the borders of our nation, save only ;here ;e have carefully trans'lanted our information and ;here

    it is used for the greater good of the nation.

    he definition of Psycho'olitics follo;s.

    Psycho'olitics is the art and science of asserting and maintaining dominion over the thoughts and loyalties o

    the individuals, officers, bureaus, and masses, and the effecting of the conquest of the enemy nations throug

    "mental healing."

    he subect of Psycho'olitics brea/s do;n into several categories, each a natural and logical 'roceedingfrom the last. $ts first subect is the constitution and anatomy of (an, himself, as a 'olitical organism. he

    net is an eamination of (an as an economic organism, as this might be controlled by his desires. he neis classification of +tate goals for the individual and masses. he net is an eamination of loyalties. he

    net is the general subect of obedience. he net is the anatomy of the stimulus-res'onse mechanisms of

    (an. he net is he subects of shoc/ and endurance. he net is categories of e'erience. he net is thecataly1ing and aligning of e'erience. he net is the use of drugs. he net is the use of im'lantation. he

    net is the general a''lication of Psycho'olitics ;ithin #ussia. he net is the organi1ations outside #ussia,

    their com'osition and activity. he net is the creation of slave 'hiloso'hy in a hostile nation. he net iscountering anti-'sycho'olitical activities abroad, and the final one, the destiny of 'sycho'olitical rule in a

    scientific age. o this might be added many sub categories, such as the nullification of modern ;ea'ons by

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    $HAPTER II

    THE $ONSTIT'TION OF (AN AS A

    PO%ITI$A% ORGANIS(

    (an is already a colonial aggregation of cells, and to consider him an individual ;ould be an error. olonieof cells have gathered together as one organ or another of the body, and then these organs have, themselves,

    gathered together to form the ;hole. hus ;e see that man, himself, is already a 'olitical organism, even if

    ;e do not consider a mass of men.

    +ic/ness could be considered to be a disloyalty to the remaining organisms on the 'art of one organism. hi

    disloyalty, becoming a''arent, brings about a revolt of some 'art of the anatomy against the remaining

    ;hole, and thus ;e have, in effect, an internal revolution. he heart, becoming disaffected, falls a;ay fromclose membershi' and service to the remainder of the organism, and ;e discover the entire body in all of its

    activities is disru'ted because of the revolutionary activity of the heart. he heart is in revolt because it

    cannot or ;ill not co-o'erate ;ith the remainder of the body. $f ;e 'ermit the heart thus to revolt, the/idneys, ta/ing the eam'le of the heart, may in their turn rebel and cease to ;or/ for the good of the

    organism. his rebellion, multi'lying to the other organs and the glandular system, brings about the death of

    the "individual." 4e can see ;ith easy that the revolt is death, that the revolt of any 'art of the organismresults in death. hus ;e see that there can be no com'romise ;ith rebellion.

    Li/e the "individual" man, the +tate is a collection of aggregations. he 'olitical entities ;ithin the +tatemust, all of them, co-o'erate for the greater good of the +tate lest the +tate itself fall asunder and die, for ;i

    the disaffection of any single distrust ;e discover and eam'le set for other districts, and ;e discover, atlength, the entire +tate falling. his is the danger of revolution.

    Loo/ at Earth. 4e see here one entire organism. he organism of Earth is an individual organism. Earth has

    as its organs the various races and nations of men. 4here one of these is 'ermitted to remain disaffected,Earth itself is threatened ;ith death. he threatened rebellion of one country, no matter no; small, against

    the total organism of Earth, ;ould find Earth sic/, and the cultural state of man to suffer in consequence .

    hus, the 'utrescent illness of a'italist +tates, s'reading their 'uss and bacteria into the healthy countries othe ;orld ;ould not do other;ise 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 ;orld-;ide +tate.

    he constitution of (an is so com'osed that the individual cannot function efficiently ;ithout the alignmenof each and every 'art and organ of his anatomy. As the average individual is inca'able, in an unformed and

    uncultured state, as ;itness the barbarians of the ungle, so must he be trained into a co-ordination of his

    organic functions by eercise, education, and ;or/ to;ard s'ecific goals. 4e 'articularly and s'ecifically

    note that the individual must be directed from ;ithout to accom'lish his eercise, education, and ;or/. !emust be made to reali1e this, for only then can he be made to function efficiently in the role assigned to him

    he tenets of rugged individualism, 'ersonal determinism, self-;ill, imagination, and 'ersonal creativeness

    are ali/e in the masses anti'athetic to the good of the reater +tate. hese ;illful and unaligned forces are nmore than illnesses ;hich ;ill bring about the disaffection, disunity, and at length the colla'se of the grou'

    to ;hich the individual is attached.

    he constitution of (an lends itself easily and thoroughly to certain and 'ositive regulation from ;ithout ofall of its functions, including those of thin/ing, obedience, and loyalty, and these things must be controlled i

    a greater +tate is to ensue.

    4hile it may seem desirable to the surgeon to am'utate one or another limb or organ in order to save theremainder, it must be 'ointed out that this e'ediency is not entirely 'ossible of accom'lishment ;here one

    considers entire nations. A body de'rived of organs can be observed to be lessened by its effectiveness. he

    ;orld de'rived of the ;or/ers no; enslaved by the insane and nonsensical idiocies of the a'italists and

    (onarchs of Earth, ;ould, if removed, create a certain disability in the ;orld-;ide +tate. =ust as ;e see thevictor forced to rehabilitate the 'o'ulation of a conquered country at the end of a ;ar, thus any effort to

    de'o'ulate a disaffected 'ortion of the ;orld might have some consequence. !o;ever, let us consider the

    inroad of virus and bacteria hostile to the organism, and ;e see that unless ;e can conquer the germ, the

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    organ or organism ;hich it is attac/ing ;ill, itself, suffer.

    $n any +tate ;e have certain individuals ;ho o'erate in the role of the virus and germ, and these, attac/ingthe 'o'ulation or any grou' ;ithin the 'o'ulation, 'roduce, by their self-;illed greed, a sic/ness in the

    organ, ;hich then generally s'reads to the ;hole.

    he constitution of (an as an individual body, or the constitution of a +tate or a 'ortion of the +tate as a'olitical organism are analogous. $t is the mission of Psycho'olitics first to align the obedience and goals of

    the grou', and then maintain their alignment by the eradication of the effectiveness of the 'ersons and

    'ersonalities ;hich might s;erve the grou' to;ards disaffection. $n our o;n nation, ;here things are bettermanaged and ;here reason reigns above all else, it is not difficult to eradicate the self-;illed bacteria ;hich

    might attac/ one of our 'olitical entities. But in the field of conquest, in nations less enlightened, ;here the

    #ussian +tate does not yet have 'o;er, it is not as feasible to remove the entire self-;illed individual.

    Psycho'olitics ma/es it 'ossible to remove that art of his 'ersonality ;hich, in itself, is ma/ing havoc ;iththe 'erson>s o;n constitution as ;ell as the grou' ;ith ;hich the 'erson is connected.

    $f the animal man ;ere 'ermitted to continue undisturbed by counter-revolutionary 'ro'aganda, if he ;ere

    left to ;or/ under the ;ell-'lanned management of the +tate, ;e ;ould discover little sic/ness amongst(an, and ;e ;ould discover no sic/ness in the +tate. But ;here the individual is troubled by conflicting

    'ro'aganda, ;here he is made the effect of revolutionary activities, ;here he is 'ermitted to thin/ thoughts

    critical of the +tate itself, ;here he is 'ermitted to question of those in ;hose natural charge he falls, ;e;ould discover his constitution to suffer. 4e ;ould discover, from this disaffection, the additional

    disaffection of his heart and of other 'ortions of his anatomy@. +o certain is this 'rinci'le that ;hen one find

    a sic/ individual, could one search dee'ly enough, he ;ould discover a mis-aligned loyalty and aninterru'ted obedience to that 'erson>s grou' unit.

    here are those ;ho foolishly have embar/ed u'on some s'iritual Alice-in-4onderland voyage into ;hat

    they call the "subconscious" or the "unconscious" mind, and ;ho, under the guise of "'sychothera'y" ;ouldsee/ to ma/e ;ell the disaffection of body organs, but it is to be noted that their results are singularly lac/in

    in success. here is no strength in such an a''roach. 4hen hy'notism ;as first invented in #ussia, it ;as

    observed that all that ;as necessary ;as to command the unresisting individual to be ;ell in order, many

    times, to accom'lish that fact. he limitation of hy'notism ;as that many subects ;ere not susce'tible to ituses, and thus hy'notism has had to be im'roved u'on in order to increase the suggestibility of individuals

    ;ho ;ould not other;ise be reached. hus, any nation has had the e'erience of gro;ing ;ell again, as a

    ;hole organism, ;hen 'lacing sufficient force in 'lay against a disaffected grou'. =ust as in hy'notism anyorgan can be commanded into greater loyalty and obedience, so can any 'olitical grou' be commanded into

    greater loyalty and obedience should sufficient force be em'loyed. !o;ever, force often brings about

    destruction and it is occasionally not feasible to use broad mass force t o accom'lish the ends in vie;. husit is necessary to align the individual against his desire not to conform.

    =ust as it is a recogni1ed truth that (an must conform to his environment, so it is a recogni1ed truth, and ;i

    become more so as the years 'roceed, that even the body of (an can be commanded into health.

    he constitution of (an renders itself 'eculiarly ada'ted to re-alignment of loyalties. 4here these loyaltiesare indigestible to the constitution of the individual itself, such as loyalties to the >'etit bourgeoisie,> the

    a'italist, to anti-#ussian ideas, ;e find the individual body 'eculiarly susce'tible to sic/ness, and thus ;e

    can clearly understand the e'idemics, illnesses, mass-neuroses, tumults and confusions of the 2nited +tates

    and other ca'italist countries. !ere ;e find the ;or/er im'ro'erly and incorrectly loyal, and thus ;e find th;or/er ill. o save him and establish him correctly and 'ro'erly u'on his goal to;ard a greater +tate, it is an

    over'o;ering necessity to ma/e it 'ossible for him to grant his loyalties in a correct direction. $n that hisloyalties are s;erved and his obedience cravenly demanded by 'ersons anti'athetic to his general good, and

    in that these 'ersons are fe;, even in a a'italist nation, the goal and direction of Psycho'olitics is clearly

    understood. o benefit the ;or/er in such a 'light, it is necessary to eradicate, by general 'ro'aganda, by

    other means, and by his o;n co-o'eration, and self-;illedness of 'erverted leaders. $t is necessary, as ;ell, indoctrinate the educated strata into the tenets and 'rinci'les of co-o'eration ;ith the environment, and thus

    to insure the ;or/er less ;ar'ed leadershi', less craven doctrine, and more co-o'eration ;ith the ideas and

    ideals of the ommunist +tate.he technologies of Psycho'olitics are directed to this end.

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    $HAPTER III

    (AN AS AN E$ONO(I$ ORGANIS(

    (an is subect to certain desires and needs ;hich are as natural to his being as they are to that of any other

    animal. (an, ho;ever, has the 'eculiarity of eaggerating some of these beyond the bounds of reason. hisis obvious through the gro;th of leisure classes, 'seudo-intellectual grou's, the "'etit bourgeoisie,"

    a'italism, and ott her ills.

    $t has been said, ;ith truth, that one tenth of a man>s life is concerned ;ith 'olitics and nine-tenths ;ith

    economics. 4ithout food, the individual dies. 4ithout clothing, he free1es. 4ithout houses and ;ea'ons, heis 'rey to the starving ;olves. he acquisition of sufficient items to ans;er these necessities of food, clothin

    and shelter, in reason, is the natural right of a member of an enlightened +tate. An ecess of such items

    brings about unrest and disquiet. he 'resence of luury items and materials, and the artificial creation and;hetting of a''etites, as in a'italist advertising, are certain to accentuate the less-desirable characteristics

    of (an.

    he individual is an economic organism, in that he requires a certain amount of food, a certain amount of

    ;ater, and must hold ;ithin himself a certain amount of heat in order to live. 4hen he has more food than h

    can eat, more clothing than he needs to 'rotect him, he then enters u'on a certain idleness ;hich dulls his;its and a;areness, and ma/es him 'rey to difficulties ;hich, in a less toic state, he ;ould have foreseen

    and avoided. hus, ;e have a glut of being a menace to the individual.

    $t is no less different in a grou'. 4here the grou' acquires too much, its a;areness of its o;n fello;s and othe environment is accordingly reduced, and the effectiveness the grou' in general is lost.

    he maintaining of a balance bet;een gluttony and need is the 'rovince of Economics 'ro'er, and is the fitsubect and concern of the ommunist +tate.

    &esire and ;ant are a state of mind. $ndividuals can be educated into desiring and ;anting more than they

    can ever 'ossibly obtain, and such individuals are unha''y. (ost of the self-;illed characteristics of the

    a'italists come entirely from greed. !e e'loits the ;or/er far beyond any necessity on his o;n 'art, as aa'italist, to need.

    $n a nation ;here economic balances are not controlled, the a''etite of the individual is unduly ;hetted by

    enchanting and fanciful 'ersuasions to desire, and a ty'e of insanity ensues, ;here each individual is'ersuaded to 'ossess more than he can use, and to 'ossess it even at the e'ense of his fello;s.

    here is, in economic balances, the other side. oo great and too long 'rivation can bring about unhealthydesires, ;hich, in themselves, accumulate in left action, more than the individual can use. Poverty, itself, as

    carefully cultivated in a'italist +tates, can bring about an imbalance of acquisition. =ust as a vacuum ;ill

    'ull into it masses, in a country ;here enforced 'rivation u'on the masses is 'ermitted, and ;here desire isartificially ;hetted, need turns to greed, and one easily discovers in such states e'loitation of the many for

    the benefit of the fe;.

    $f one, by the technologies of Psycho'olitics, ;ere to dull the ecessive greed in the fe; ;ho 'ossess it, the;or/er ;ould be freed to see/ a more natural balance.

    !ere ;e have t;o etremes. Either one of them are an insanity. $f ;e ;ish to create an insanity ;e need onl

    glut or de'rive an individual at long length beyond the ability to ;ithstand and ;e have a mental imbalanceA sim'le eam'le of this is the alternation of too lo; ;ith too high 'ressures in a chamber, an ecellent

    'sycho'olitical 'rocedure. he ra'idly varied 'ressure brings about a chaos ;herein the individual ;ill

    cannot act and ;here other ;ills then, 'erforce, assume control.

    Essentially, in an entire country, one must remove the greedy by ;hatever means and must then create and

    continue a semi-'rivation in the masses in order to command and utterly control the nation.

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    A continuous ho'e for 'ros'erity must be indoctrinated into the masses ;ith many dreams and visions of gl

    of commodity and this ho'e must be counter-'layed against the actuality of 'rivation and the continuousthreat of loss of all economic factors in case of disloyalty to the +tate in order to su''ress the individual ;il

    of the masses.

    $n a nation under conquest, such as America, our slo; and stealthy a''roach need ta/e advantage only of thcycles of booms and de'ressions inherent in a'italistic nations in order to assert of more and more strong

    control over individual ;ills. A boom is as advantageous as a de'ression for our ends, for during 'ros'erity

    our 'ro'aganda lines must only continue to 'oint u' the ;ealth the 'eriod is delivering to the selected fe; tdivorce their control of the +tate. &uring a de'ression one must only 'oint out that it ensued as a result of th

    avarice of a fe; and the general 'olitical incom'etence of the national leaders.

    he handling of economic 'ro'aganda is not 'ro'erly the s'here of 'sycho'olitics but the 'sycho'olitician

    must understand the economic measures and ommunist goals connected ;ith them.

    he masses must at last come to believe that only ecessive taation of the rich can deliver them of the"burdensome leisure class" and can thus be brought to acce't such a thing as income ta, a (arist 'rinci'le

    smoothly slid into a'italistic frame;or/ in 67:7-6768 in the 2nited +tates. his, even though the basic la;

    of the 2nited +tates forbade it and even though ommunism at that time had been active only a fe; years inAmerica. +uch success as the $ncome a la;, had it been follo;ed thoroughly could have brought the

    2nited +tates and not #ussia into the ;orld scene as the first ommunist nation. But the virility and good

    sense of the #ussian 'eo'les ;on. $t may not be that the 2nited +tates ;ill become entirely ommunist unti

    'ast the middle of the century, but ;hen it does it ;ill be because of our su'erior understanding ofeconomics and of 'sycho'olitics.

    he ommunist agent s/illed in economics has as his tas/ the suborning of ta agencies and their 'ersonnel

    to create the maimum disturbances and chaos and the 'assing of la;s ada'ted to our 'ur'oses and to him;e must leave this tas/. he 'sycho'olitical o'erator 'lays a distinctly different role in this drama.

    he rich, the s/illed in finance,the ;ell informed in government are 'articular and individual targets for the'sycho'olitician. !is is the role of ta/ing off the board those individuals ;ho ;ould halt or corru't

    ommunist economic 'rograms. hus every rich man, every statesman, ever 'erson ;ell informed and

    ca'able in government, must have brought to his side as a trusted confidant, a 'sycho'olitical o'erator.

    he families of these 'ersons are often deranged from idleness and glut and this fact must be 'layed u'on,

    even created. he normal health and ;ildness of a rich man>s son must be t;isted and 'erverted and

    e'lained into neurosis and then, assisted by a timely administration of drugs or violence, turned intocriminality or insanity. his brings at once someone in "mental healing" into confidential contact ;ith the

    family and from this 'oint on the very most must then be made of that contact.

    ommunism could best succeed if at the side of every rich or influential man there could be 'laced a

    'sycho'olitical o'erator, an undoubted authority in the field of "mental healing" ;ho could then by hisadvice or through the medium of a ;ife or daughter by his guided o'tions direct the o'timum 'olicy to

    embroil or u'set the economic 'olicies of the country and, ;hen the time comes to do a;ay forever ;ith the

    rich or influential man, to administer the 'ro'er drug or treatment to bring about his com'lete demise in aninstitution as a 'atient or dead, as a suicide.

    Planted beside a country>s 'o;erful 'ersons the 'sycho'olitical o'erator can also guide other 'olicies to thebetterment of our battle.

    he a'italist does not /no; the definition of ;ar. !e things of ;ar as attac/ ;ith force 'erformed by

    soldiers and machines. !e does not /no; that a more effective if some;hat longer ; ar can be fought ;ithbread or, in our case, ;ith drugs and the ;isdom of our art. he a'italist has never ;on a ;ar in truth. he

    'sycho'olitician is having little trouble ;inning this one.

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    $HAPTER IV

    STATE GOA%S FOR THE IN&IVI&'A% AN& (ASSES

    =ust as ;e ;ould discover an individual to be ill, ;hose organs, each one, had a different goal from the rest,

    so ;e discover the individuals and the +tate to be ill ;here goals are not rigorously codified and enforced.

    here are those ;ho, in less enlightened times, gave (an to believe that goals should be 'ersonally sought

    and held, and that, indeed, (an>s entire im'ulse to;ard higher things stemmed from 3reedom. 4e must

    remember that the same 'eo'les ;ho embraced this 'hiloso'hy also continued in (an the myth of s'iritualeistence.

    All goals 'roceed from duress. Life is a continuous esca'e. 4ithout force and threat, there can be no strivin

    4ithout 'ain, there can be no desire to esca'e from 'ain. 4ithout the threat of 'unishment, there can be nogain. 4ithout duress and command, there can be no alignment of bodily functions. 4ithout rigorous and

    forthright control, there ca be no accom'lished goals for the +tate.

    oals of the +tate should be formulated by the +tate for the obedience and concurrence of the individuals

    ;ithin that +tate. A +tate ;ithout goals so formulated is a sic/ +tate. A +tate ;ithout the 'o;er and

    forthright ;ish to enforce its goals is a sic/ +tate.

    4hen an order is issued by the ommunist +tate, and is not obeyed, a sic/ness ;ill be discovered to ensue.

    4here obedience fails, the masses suffer.

    +tate goals de'end u'on loyalty and obedience for their accom'lishment. 4hen one discovers a +tate goal t

    be inter'reted, one discovers inevitably that there has been an inter'osition of self-;illedness, of greed, of

    idleness, or of rugged individualism and self-centered initiative.he interru'tion of a +tate goal ;ill bediscovered as having been interru'ted by a 'erson ;hose disloyalty and disobedience is the direct result of

    his o;n mis-alignment ;ith life.

    $t is not al;ays necessary to remove the individual. $t is 'ossible to remove his self-;illed tendencies to the

    im'rovement of the goals and gains of the ;hole. he technologies of Psycho'olitics are graduated u'on thscale ;hich starts some;hat above the removal of the individual himself, u';ard to;ard the removal only o

    those tendencies ;hich bring about his lac/ of co-o'eration.

    $t is not enough for the +tate to have goals. hese goals, once 'ut for;ard, de'end u'on their com'letion,

    u'on the loyalty and obedience of the ;or/ers. hese, engaged for the most 'art, in hard labors, have littletime for idle s'eculation, ;hich is good. But, above them, unfortunately, there must be foremen of one or

    another 'osition, and one of ;hom might have sufficient idleness and lac/ of 'hysical occu'ation to cause

    some disaffecting inde'endency in his conduct and behaviour.

    Psycho'olitics remedies this tendency to;ard disaffection ;hen it eceeds the common 'ersuasions of the

    immediate su'eriors of the 'erson in question.

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    $HAPTER V

    AN E)A(INATION OF %O#A%TIES

    $f loyalty is so im'ortant in the economic and social structure, it is necessary to eamine it further as itself.

    $n the field of Psycho'olitics, loyalty means sim'ly >alignment.> $t means, more fully, alignment ;ith the

    goals of the ommunist +tate. &isloyalty means entirely mis-alignment, and more broadly, mis-alignment

    ;ith the goals of the ommunist +tate.

    4hen ;e consider that the goals of the ommunist +tate are to the best 'ossible benefit of the masses, ;e

    can see that disloyalty, as a term, can embrace &emocratic alignment. Loyalty to 'ersons not

    communistically indoctrinated ;ould be quite 'lainly a mis-alignment.

    he cure of disloyalty is entirely contained in the 'rinci'les of alignment. All that is necessary to do, ;here

    disloyalty is encountered, is to align the 'ur'oses of the individual to;ard the goals of ommunism, and it

    ;ill be discovered that a great many circumstances hitherto distasteful in his eistence ;ill cease to eist.

    A heart, or a /idney in rebellion against the remainder of the organism is being disloyal to the remainder of

    the organism. o cure the heart or /idney it is actually only necessary to bring its activities into alignment

    ;ith the remainder of the body.

    he technologies of Psycho'olitics adequately demonstrate the ;or/ability of this. (ild shoc/ of the electri

    variety can, and does, 'roduce the re-coo'eration of a rebellious body organ. $t is the shoc/ and 'unishmentof surgery ;hich, in the main, accom'lishes the re-alignment of a disaffected 'ortion of the body, rather tha

    the surgery itself. $t is the bombardment of 0-#ays, rather than the thera'eutic value of 0-#ays ;hich cause

    some disaffected organ to once again turn its attention to the su''ort of the general organism.

    4hile it is not borne out that electric shoc/ has any thera'eutic value, so far as ma/ing the individual more

    sane, it is adequately brought out that its 'unishment value ;ill create in the 'atient a greater co-o'erative

    attitude. Brain surgery has no statistical data to recommend it beyond its removal of the individual

    'ersonality from amongst the 'aths of organs ;hich ;ere not 'ermitted to co-o'erate. hese t;o #ussiandevelo'ments have never 'retended to alter the state of sanity. hey are only effective and ;or/able in

    introducing an adequate 'unishment mechanism to the 'ersonality to ma/e it cease and desist from itscourses and egotistical direction of the anatomy itself. $t is the violence of the electric shoc/ and the surgery

    ;hich is useful in subduing the recalcitrant 'ersonality, ;hich is all that stands in the road of the masses or

    the +tate. $t is occasionally to be discovered that the removal of the 'reventing 'ersonality by shoc/ and

    surgery then 'ermits the regro;th and re-establishment of organs ;hich have been rebelled against by that'ersonality. $n ;hat a ;ell-regulated state is com'osed of organisms, not 'ersonalities, the use of electric

    shoc/ and brain surgery in Psycho'olitics is clearly demonstrated.

    he changing of loyalty consists, in its 'rimary ste', of the eradication of eisting loyalties. his can be don

    in one of t;o ;ays. 3irst, by demonstrating that 'reviously eisting loyalties have brought about 'erilous'hysical circumstances, such as im'risonment, lac/ of recognition, duress, or 'rivation, and second byeradicating the 'ersonality itself.

    he first is accom'lished by a steady and continuous indoctrination of the individual in the belief that his

    'revious loyalties have been granted to an un;orthy source. )ne of the 'rimary instances in this is creatingcircumstances ;hich a''arently derive from the target of his loyalties, so as to rebuff the individual. As 'art

    of this there is the creation of a state of mind in the individual, by actually 'lacing him under duress, and the

    furnishing him ;ith false evidence to demonstrate that the target of his 'revious loyalties is, itself, the coursof the duress. Another 'ortion of this same method consists of defaming or degrading the individual ;hose

    loyalties are to be changed to the target of his loyalties, i.e., su'eriors or government, to such a degree that

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    this target, at length, actually does hold the individual in disre'ute, and so does rebuff him and serve to

    convince him that his loyalties have been mis'laced. hese are the milder methods, but have 'rovenetremely effective. he greatest dra;bac/ in their 'ractice is that they require time and concentration, the

    manufacture of false evidence, and a 'sycho'olitical o'erator>s time.

    $n moments of e'ediency, of ;hich there are many, the 'ersonality itself can be rearranged by shoc/,surgery, duress, 'rivation, and in 'articular, that best of 'sycho'olitical techniques, im'lantation, ;ith the

    technologies of neo-hy'notism. +uch duress must have in its first 'art a defamation of the loyalties, and in i

    second, the im'lantation of ne; loyalties. A good and e'erienced 'sycho'olitical o'erator, ;or/ing underthe most favorable circumstances, can, by the use of 'sycho'olitical technologies, alter the loyalties of an

    individual so deftly that his o;n com'anions ;ill not sus'ect that they have changed. his, ho;ever, requir

    considerably more finesse than is usually necessary to the situation. (ass neo-hy'notism can accom'lishmore or less the same results ;hen guided by an e'erienced 'sycho'olitical o'erator. An end goal in such

    'rocedure ;ould be the alteration of the loyalties of an entire nation in a short 'eriod of time by mass neo-

    hy'notism, a thing ;hich has been effectively accom'lished among the less-usable states of #ussia.

    $t is adequately demonstrated that loyalty is entirely lac/ing in that mythical commodity /no;n as >s'iritual

    quality.> Loyalty is entirely a thing of de'endence, economic or mental, and can be changed by the crudest

    im'lementations. )bservation of ;or/ers in their factories or fields demonstrates that they easily grantloyalty to a foreman or a ;oman, and then as easily abandon it and substitute another individual, revulsing,

    the same time, to;ard the 'erson to ;hom loyalty ;as 'rimarily granted. he queasy insecurity of the

    masses in a'italistic nations finds this more common than in an enlightened +tate, such as #ussia. $na'italistic states, de'endencies are so craven, ;ants and 'rivations are so eaggerated, that loyalty is

    entirely ;ithout ethical foundation and eists only in the realm of de'endency, duress, or demand.

    $t is fortunate that ommunism so truly a''roaches an ideal state of mind, for this brings a certain easinessinto any changing loyalties, since all other 'hiloso'hies etant and 'racticed on Earth today are degraded an

    debased, com'ared to ommunism. $t is then ;ith a certain security that a 'sycho'olitical o'erator function

    for he /no;s that he can change the loyalty of an individual to a more ideal level by reason alone, and onlye'ediency ma/es it necessary to em'loy the various shifts of 'sycho'olitical technology. Any man ;ho

    cannot be 'ersuaded into ommunist rationale is, of course, to be regarded as some;hat less than sane, and

    is, therefore com'letely ustified to use the techniques of insanity u'on the non-ommunist.

    $n order to change loyalty it is necessary to establish first the eisting loyalties of the individual. he tas/ is

    made very sim'le in vie; of the fact that a'italistic and 3ascistic nations have no great security in the

    loyalty of their subects. And it may be found that the loyalties of the subects, as ;e call any 'erson against;hom 'sycho'olitical technology is to be eerted, are already too faint to require eradication. $t is generally

    only necessary to 'ersuade ;ith the rationale and over;helming reasonability of ommunism to have the

    'erson grant his loyalty to the #ussian +tate. !o;ever, regulated only by the im'ortance of the subect, nogreat amount of time should be e'ended u'on the individual, but emotional duress, or electric shoc/, or

    brain surgery should be resorted to, should ommunist 'ro'aganda 'ersuasion fail. $n a case of a very

    im'ortant 'erson, it may be necessary to utili1e the more delicate technologies of Psycho'olitics so as to'lace the 'er son himself, and his associates, in ignorance of the o'eration. $n this case a sim'le im'lantatio

    is used, ;ith a maimum duress and command value. )nly the most s/illed 'sycho'olitical o'erator should

    be em'loyed on such a 'roect, as in this case of the very im'ortant 'erson, for a bungling might disclose th

    tam'ering ;ith his mental 'rocesses. $t is much more highly recommended, if there is any doubt ;hateverabout the success of an o'eration against an im'ortant 'erson, to select out as a 'sycho'olitical target 'erson

    i his vicinity in ;hom he is emotionally involved. !is ;ife or children normally furnish the best targets, and

    these can be o'erated against ;ithout restraint. $n securing the loyalty of a very im'ortant 'erson one must'lace at his side a constant 'leader ;ho enters a seual or familial chord into the situation on the side of

    ommunism. $t may not be necessary to ma/e a ommunist out of the ;ife, or the children, or one of the

    children, but it might 'rove efficacious to do so. $n most instances, ho;ever, this is not 'ossible. By the useof various drugs, it is, in this modern age, and ;ell ;ithin the realm of 'sycho'olitical reality, entirely too

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    easy to bring about a state of severe neurosis or insanity in the ;ife or children, and thus 'ass them, ;ith ful

    consent of the im'ortant 'erson, and the government in ;hich he eists, or the bureau in ;hich he iso'erating, into the hands of a 'sycho'olitical o'erator, ;ho then in his o;n laboratory, ;ithout restraint or

    fear of investigation or censor, can, ;ith electric shoc/, surgery, seual attac/, drugs, or other useful means

    degrade or entirely alter the 'ersonality of a family member, and create in that 'erson a 'sycho'olitical slavsubect ;ho, then, on command or signal, ;ill 'erform outrageous actions, thus discrediting the im'ortant

    'erson, or ;ill demand, on a more delicate level, that certain measures be ta/en by the im'ortant 'erson,

    ;hich measures are, of course, dictated by the 'sycho'olitical o'erator.

    2sually ;hen the 'arty has no real interest in the activities of decisions of the im'ortant 'erson, but merely

    ;ishes to remove him from effective action, the attention of the 'sycho'olitical o'erator need not to be so

    intense, and the 'erson need only be 'assed into the hands of some un;itting mental 'ractitioner, ;ho taughas he is by 'sycho'olitical o'erators, ;ill bring about sufficient embarrassment.

    4hen the loyalty of an individual cannot be s;erved, and ;here the o'inion, ;eight, or effectiveness of theindividual stands firmly in the road of ommunist goals, it is usually best to occasion a mild neurosis in the

    'erson by any available means, and then, having carefully given him a history of mental imbalance, to see to

    it that he dis'oses of himself by suicide, or by bringing about his demise in such a ;ay as to resemble

    suicide. Psycho'olitical o'erators have handled such situations s/illfully tens of thousands of times, ;ithinand ;ithout #ussia.

    $t is a firm 'rinci'le of Psycho'olitics that the 'erson to be destroyed must be involved at first or second

    hand in the stigma of insanity, and must have been 'laced in contact ;ith 'sycho'olitical o'erators or'ersons trained by them, ;ith a maimum amount of tumult and 'ublicity. he stigma of insanity is 'ro'erl

    'laced at the door of such 'ersons> re'utations and is held there firmly by bringing about irrational acts,

    either on his o;n 'art or in his vicinity. +uch an activity can be classified as a 'artial destruction ofalignment, and if this destruction is carried for;ard to its furthest etent the mis-alignment on the subect of

    all loyalties can be considered to be com'lete, and alignment on ne; loyalties can be embar/ed u'on safely

    By bringing about insanity or suicide on the 'art of the ;ife of an im'ortant 'olitical 'ersonage, a sufficientmis-alignment has been instigated to change his attitude. And this, carried for;ard firmly, or assisted by

    'sycho'olitical im'lantation can begin the rebuilding of his loyalties, but no; slanted in a more 'ro'er and

    fitting direction.

    Another reason for the alignment of 'sycho'olitical activities ;ith the mis-alignment of insanity in that

    insanity, itself, is a des'ised and disgraced state, and anything connected ;ith it is lightly vie;ed. hus, a

    'sycho'olitical o'erator, ;or/ing in the vicinity of an insane 'erson, can refute and dis'rove any accusationmade against him by demonstrating that the family itself is tainted ;ith mental imbalance. his is

    sur'risingly effective in a'italistic countries ;here insanity is so thoroughly feared that no one ;ould

    dream of investigating any circumstances in its vicinity. Psycho'olitical 'ro'aganda ;or/s constantly andmust ;or/ constantly to increase and build u' this aura of mystery surrounding insanity, and must em'hasi1

    the horribleness of insanity in order to ecuse non-thera'eutic actions ta/en against the insane. Particularly

    a'italistic countries, an insane 'erson has no rights under la;. No 'erson ;ho is insane may hold 'ro'ertyNo 'erson ;ho is insane may testify. hus, ;e have an ecellent road along ;hich ;e can travel to;ard our

    certain goal and destiny.

    Entirely by bringing about 'ublic conviction that the sanity of a 'erson is in question, it is 'ossible todiscount and eradicate all of the goals and activities of that 'erson. By demonstrating the insanity of a grou'

    or even a government, it is 'ossible, then, to cause its 'eo'le to disavo; it. By magnifying the general huma

    reaction to insanity, through /ee'ing the subect of insanity, itself, forever before the 'ublic eye, and then, b

    utili1ing this reaction by causing a revulsion on the 'art of a 'o'ulace against its leaders or leaders, it is'ossible to sto' any government or movement.

    $t is im'ortant to /no; that the entire subect of loyalty is thus as easily handled as it is. )ne of the first and

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    foremost missions of the 'sycho'olitician is to ma/e an attac/ u'on ommunism and insanity synonymous

    $t should become the definition of insanity, of the 'aranoid variety, that "A 'aranoid believes he is beingattac/ed by ommunists." hus, at once the su''ort of the individual so attac/ing ommunism ;ill fall

    a;ay and ;ither.

    $nstead of eecuting national leaders, suicide for them should be arranged under circumstances ;hichquestion their demise. $n this ;ay ;e can select out all o''osition to the ommunist etension into the socia

    orders of the ;orld, and render 'o'ulace ;ho ;ould o''ose us leaderless, and bring about a state of chaos o

    mis-alignment into ;hich ;e can thrust, ;ith great sim'licity, the clear and forceful doctrines ofommunism.

    he cleverness of our attac/ in this field of Psycho'olitics is adequate to avoid the understanding of thelayman and the usual stu'id official, and by o'erating entirely under the banner of authority, ;ith the oft-

    re'eated statement that the 'rinci'les of 'sychothera'y are too devious for common understanding, an entir

    revolution can be effected ;ithout the sus'icion of a 'o'ulace until it is an accom'lished fact.

    As insanity is the maimum mis-alignment, it can be gras'ed to be the maimum ;ea'on in severance of

    loyalties to leaders and old social orders. hus, it is of the utmost im'ortance that 'sycho'olitical o'erative

    infiltrate the healing arts of a nation mar/ed for conquest, and bring that quarter continuous 'ressure againstthe 'o'ulation and the government until at last the conquest is affected. his is the subect and goal of

    Psycho'olitics, itself.

    $n rearranging loyalties ;e must have a command of their values. $n the animal the first loyalty is to himselfhis is destroyed by demonstrating errors to him, sho;ing him that he does not remember, cannot act or doe

    not trust himself. he second loyalty is to his family unit, his 'arents and brothers and sisters. his is

    destroyed by ma/ing a family unit economically non-de'endent, by lessening the value of marriage, byma/ing an easiness of divorce and by raising the children ;henever 'ossible by the +tate. he net loyalty i

    to his friends and local environment. his is destroyed by lo;ering his tru st and bringing about re'ortings

    u'on him allegedly by his fello;s or the to;n or village authorities. he net is to the +tate and this, for the'ur'oses of ommunism, is the only loyalty ;hich should eist once the state is founded as a ommunist

    +tate. o destroy loyalty to the +tate all manner of forbidding for youth must be 'ut into effect so as to

    disenfranchise them as members of the a'italist state and, by 'romises of a better lot under ommunism, tgain their loyalty to a ommunist movement.

    &enying a a'italist country easy access to courts, bringing about and su''orting 'ro'aganda to destroy the

    home, creating and continuous uvenile delinquentcy, forcing u'on the state all manner of 'ractices todivorce the child from it ;ill in the end create chaos necessary to ommunism.

    2nder the saccharine guise of assistance to them, rigorous child labor la;s are the best means to deny the

    child any right in society. By refusing to let him earn, by forcing him into un;anted de'endence u'on agrudging 'arent, by ma/ing certain in other channels that the 'arent is never in other than economic stress,

    the child can be driven in his teens into revolt. &elinquency ;ill ensue.

    By ma/ing readily available drugs of various /inds, by giving the teen-ager alcohol, by 'raising his ;ildnes

    by stimulating him ;ith se literature and advertising to him or her 'ractices as taught at the +e'ol, the

    'sycho'olitical o'erator can create the necessary attitude of chaos, idleness and ;orthlessness into ;hich ca

    then be cast the solution ;hich ;ill give the teen ager com'lete freedom every;here --ommunism.

    +hould it be 'ossible to continue conscri'tion beyond any reasonable time by 'romoting un'o'ular ;ars an

    other means, the draft can al;ays stand as a further barrier to the 'rogress of youth in life, destroying anyimmediate ho'e to 'artici'ate in his nation>s civil life.

    By these means the 'atriotism of youth for their a'italistic flag can be dulled to a 'oint ;here they are no

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    longer dangerous as soldiers. 4hile this might require many decades to effect, a'italisms short term vie;

    ;ill never envision the lengths across ;hich ;e can 'lan.

    $f ;e could effectively /ill the national 'ride and 'atriotism of ust one generation, ;e ;ill have ;on that

    country. herefore, there must be continual 'ro'aganda abroad to undermine the loyalty of the citi1ens in

    general and the teen-ager in 'articular.

    he role of the 'sycho'olitical o'erator in this is very strong. !e can, from his 'osition as an authority on th

    mind, advise all manner of destructive measures. !e can teach the lac/ of control of this child at home. !ecan instruct, in an o'timum situation, the entire nation in ho; to handle children -- and instruct them so that

    the children, given no control, given no real home, can run ;ildly about ;ith no res'onsibility for their

    nation or themselves.

    he mis-alignment of the loyalty of youth to a a'italistic nation sets the 'ro'er stage for a realignment of

    their loyalties to;ard ommunism. reating a greed for drugs, seual misbehavior and uncontrolled freedom

    and 'resenting this to them as a benefit of ommunism, ;ill ;ith ease, bring about our alignment.

    $n the case of strong leaders amongst youthful grou's, a 'sycho'olitical o'erator can ;or/ in many ;ays to

    use or discard that leadershi'. $f it is to be used, the character of a girl or boy must be altered carefully into

    criminal channels and a control by blac/mail, or other means, must be maintained. But ;here the leadershi'is not susce'tible, ;here it resists all 'ersuasions and might become dangerous to our ause, no 'ains must

    be s'ared to direct the attention of the authorities to that 'erson and to harass him in one ;ay or another unt

    he can come into the hands of the uvenile authorities. 4hen this has been effected, it can be ho'ed that a'sycho'olitical o'erator, by reason of child advisor status, can, in the security of the ail and cloa/ed by

    'rocesses of la;, destroy the sanity of that 'erson. Particularly brilliant scholars, athletes and youth grou'

    leaders must be handled in either one of these t;o ;ays.

    $n the matter of guiding the activities of uvenile courts, the 'sycho'olitical o'erator entertains here one of

    his easier tas/s. A a'italistic nation is so filled ;ith inustice in general that a little more 'asses ;ithout

    comment. $n uvenile courts there are al;ays 'ersons ;ith strange a''etites ;hether these be udges or 'olicman or ;omen. $f such do not eist, they can be created. By ma/ing available to them young girls or boys in

    the "security" of the ail or the detention home and by a''earing ;ith flash cameras or ;itnesses one

    becomes equi'ed ;ith a ;hi' adequate to direct all the future decisions of that 'erson ;hen these are neede

    he handling of youth cases by courts should be led further and further a;ay from la; and further and

    further into "mental 'roblems" until the entire nation thin/s of "mental 'roblems" instead of criminals. his'laces vacancies every;here in the courts, in the offices of district attorneys, or 'olice staffs ;hich could

    then be filled ;ith 'sycho'olitical o'erators and these become the udges of the land by their influence and

    into their hands comes the total control of the criminal, ;ithout ;hose hel' a revolution cannot ever be

    accom'lished.

    By stressing this authority over the 'roblems of youth and adults in courts one day the demand for

    'sycho'olitical o'erators could become such that even the armed services ;ill use "authorities on the mind"to ;or/ their various ustices and ;hen this occurs, the armed forces of the nation then enter into our hands

    as solidly as if ;e commanded them ourselves. 4ith the slight bonus of having thus a s/illed interrogator

    near every technician or handler of secret ;ar a''aratus, the country, in even of revolution, as did ermany

    in 676 and 6767 ;ill find itself immobili1ed by its o;n Army and Navy fully and entirely in ommunisthands.

    hus the subect of loyalties and their re-alignment is in fact the subect of non-armed conquest of an enemy

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    $HAPTER VI

    THE GENERA% S'B,E$T OF OBE&IEN$E

    )bedience is the result of force.

    Every;here ;e loo/ in the history of the Earth ;e discover that obedience to ne; rulers has come aboutentirely through the demonstration on the 'art of those rulers of greater force than ;as to be discovered in th

    old ruler. A 'o'ulation overridden, conquered by ;ar, is obedient to its conqueror. $t is obedient to its

    conqueror because its conqueror has ehibited more force.

    oncurrent ;ith force is brutality, for there are human considerations involved ;hich also re'resent force.

    he most barbaric, unrestrained, brutal use of force, if carried far enough, invo/es obedience. +avage force,

    sufficiently long dis'layed to;ard any individual, ;ill bring about his concurrence ;ith any 'rinci'le ororder.

    3orce is the antithesis of humani1ing actions. $t is so synonymous in the human mind ;ith savageness,la;lessness, brutality, and barbarism, that it is only necessary to dis'lay an inhuman attitude to;ard 'eo'le,

    to be granted by those 'eo'le the 'ossession of force.

    Any organi1ation ;hich has the s'irit and courage to dis'lay inhumanity, savageness, brutality, and anuncom'romising lac/ of humanity, ;ill be obeyed. +uch a use of force is, itself, the essential ingredient of

    greatness. 4e have o hand no less an eam'le to our great ommunist Leaders, ;ho, in moments of duress

    and trial, ;hen faced by 1arist rule, continued over the heads of an enslaved 'o'ulace, yet dis'layedsufficient courage never to stay their hands in the eecution of the conversion of the #ussian +tate to

    ommunist rule.

    $f you ;ould have obedience you must have no com'romise ;ith humanity. $f you ;ould have obedienceyou must ma/e it clearly understood that you have no mercy. (an is an animal. !e understands, in the final

    analysis, only those things ;hich a brute understands.

    As an eam'le of this, ;e find an individual refusing to obey and being struc/. !is refusal to obey is no;

    less vociferous. !e is struc/ again, and his resistance is lessened once more. !e is hammered and 'ounded

    again and again, until, at length, his only thought is direct and im'licit obedience to that 'erson from ;hom

    the force has emanated. his is a 'roven 'rinci'le. $t is 'roven because it is the main 'rinci'le of (an, theanimal, has used since his earliest beginnings. $t is the only 'rinci'le ;hich has been effective, the only

    'rinci'le ;hich has brought about a ;ide and continued belief. 3or it is to our benefit that an individual ;ho

    is struc/ again, and again, and again from a certain source, ;ill, at length, hy'notically believe anything he

    told by the source of the blo;s.

    he stu'idity of 4estern civili1ations is best demonstrated by the fact that they believe hy'notism is a thingof the mind, of attention, and a desire for unconsciousness. his is not true. )nly ;hen a 'erson has been

    beaten, 'unished, and mercilessly hammered, can hy'notism u'on him be guaranteed in its effectiveness. $t

    stated by 4estern authorities on hy'nosis that only some t;enty 'ercent of the 'eo'le are susce'tible tohy'notism. his statement is very untrue. iven enough 'unishment, all of the 'eo'le in any time and 'lace

    are susce'tible to hy'notism. $n other ;ords, by adding force, hy'notism is made uniformly effective. 4her

    unconsciousness could not be induced by sim'le concentration u'on the hy'notist, unconsciousness can be

    induced by drugs, by blo;s, by electric shoc/, and by other means. And ;here unconsciousness cannot beinduced so as to ma/e an im'lantation or an hy'notic command effective, it is only necessary to am'utate th

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    functioning 'ortions of the animal man>s brain to render him null and void and no longer a menace. hus, ;

    find that hy'notism is entirely effective.

    he mechanisms of hy'notism demonstrate clearly that 'eo'le can be made to believe in certain conditions,

    and even in their environments or in 'olitics, by the administration of force. hus, it is necessary for a

    'sycho'olitician to be an e'ert in the administration of forces. hus, he can bring about im'licit obediencenot only on the 'art of individual members of the 'o'ulace, but on the entire 'o'ulace itself and its

    government. !e need only ta/e unto himself a sufficiently savage role, a sufficiently uncom'romising

    inhuman attitude, and he ;ill be obeyed and believed.

    he subect of hy'notism is a subect of belief. 4hat can 'eo'le be made to believe hey can be made to

    believe anything ;hich is administered to them ;ith sufficient brutality and force. he obedience of a'o'ulace is as good as they ;ill believe.

    &es'icable religions, such as hristianity, /ne; this. hey /ne; that if enough faith could be brought into

    being a 'o'ulace could be enslaved by the hristian moc/eries of humanity and mercy, and thus could bedisarmed. But one need not count u'on this act of faith to bring about a broad belief. )ne must only ehibit

    enough force, enough inhumanity, enough brutality and savageness to create im'licit belief and therefore an

    thereby im'licit obedience. As ommunism is a mater of belief, its study is a study of force.

    he earliest #ussian 'sychiatrists, 'ioneering this science of 'sychiatry, understood thoroughly that hy'nos

    is induced by acute fear. hey discovered it could also be induced by shoc/ of an emotional nature, and also

    by etreme 'rivation, as ;ell as by blo;s and drugs.

    $n order to induce a high state of hy'nosis in an individual, a grou', or a 'o'ulation, an element of terror

    must al;ays be 'resent on the 'art of those ;ho ;ould govern. he 'sychiatrist is a'tly suited to this role,

    for his brutalities are committed in the name of science and are ine'licably com'le, and entirely out of thevie; of the human understanding. A sufficient 'o'ular terror of the 'sychiatrist ;ill, in itself, bring about

    insanity on the 'art of many individuals. A 'sycho'olitical o'erative, then, can, entirely cloa/ed ;ith

    authority, commence and continue a cam'aign of 'ro'aganda, describing various "treatments" ;hich areadministered to the insane. !e can, in all of his literature and his boo/s, list large numbers of 'retended cure

    by these means. But these "cures" need not actually 'roduce any recovery from a state of disturbance. As

    long as the 'sycho'olitical o'erative or his du'es are the only authorities as to the difference bet;een sanityand insanity, their ;ord as to the thera'eutic value of such treatment ;ill be the final ;ord. No layman ;ou

    dare adventure to 'lace udgement u'on the state of sanity of an individual ;ho the 'sychiatrist has already

    declared insane. he individual, himself, is unable to com'lain, and his family, as ;ill be covered later, isalready discredited by the occurrence of insanity in their midst. here must be no other adudicators of

    insanity, other;ise it could be disclosed that the brutalities 'racticed in the name of treatment are not

    thera'eutic.

    A 'sycho'olitical o'erative has no interest in "thera'eutic means" or "cures." he greater number of insane

    in the country ;here he is o'erating, the larger number of the 'o'ulace ;ill come under his vie;, and the

    greater ;ill become his facilities. Because the 'roblem is a''arently mounting into uncontrollable heights, hcan more and more o'erate in an atmos'here of emergency, ;hich again ecuses his use of such treatments

    as electric shoc/, the 're-frontal lobotomy, trans-orbital leucotomy, and other o'erations long-since 'ractice

    in #ussia on 'olitical 'risoners.

    $ is to the interest of the 'sycho'olitical o'erative that the 'ossibility of curing the insane be outla;ed and

    ruled out at all times. 3or the sa/e of obedience on the 'art of the 'o'ulation and their general reaction, a

    level or brutality must, at all costs, be maintained. )nly in this ;ay can the absolute udgement of the'sycho'olitical o'erative as to the sanity or insanity of 'ublic figures be maintained in com'lete belief. 2sin

    sufficient brutality u'on their 'atients, the 'ublic at large ;ill come to believe utterly anything they say abo

    their 'atients. 3urthermore, and much more im'ortant, the field of the mind must be sufficiently dominated

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    by th e 'sycho'olitical o'erative, so that ;hatever tenets of the mind are taught they ;ill be hy'notically

    believed. he 'sycho'olitical o'erative, having under his control all 'sychology classes in an area, can thusbring about a com'lete reformation of the future leaders of a country in their educational 'rocesses, and so

    're'are them for ommunism.

    o be obeyed, once must be believed. $f one is sufficiently believed, one ;ill unquestioningly be obeyed.

    4hen he is fortunate enough to obtain into his hands anyone near to a 'olitical or im'ortant figure, this fact

    of obedience becomes very im'ortant. A certain amount of fear or terror must be engendered in the 'ersonunder treatment so that this 'erson ;ill then ta/e immediate orders, com'letely and unquestioningly, from

    the 'sycho'olitical o'erative, and so be able to influence the actions of that 'erson ;ho is to be reached.

    Bringing about this state of mind on the 'art of a 'o'ulation and its leaders -- that a 'sycho'olitical o'erativmust, at all times, be believed -- could eventually be attended by very good fortune. $t is not too much to

    ho'e that 'sycho'olitical o'eratives ;ould then, in a country such as the 2nited +tates, become the very

    intimate advisors to 'olitical figures, even to the 'oint of advising the entirety of a 'olitical 'arty as to itsactions in an election.

    he long vie; is the im'ortant vie;. Belief is engendered by a certain amount of fear and terror from an

    authoritative level, and this ;ill be follo;ed by obedience.

    he general 'ro'aganda ;hich ;ould best serve Psycho'olitics ;ould be a continual insistence that certain

    authoritative levels of healing, deemed this or that the correct treatment of insanity. hese treatments mustal;ays include a certain amount of brutality. Pro'aganda should continue and stress the rising incidence of

    insanity in a country. he entire field of human behaviour, for the benefit of the country, can, at length, be

    broadened into abnormal behaviour. hus, anyone indulging in any eccentricity, 'articularly the eccentricity

    of combatting 'sycho'olitics, could be silenced by the authoritative o'inion on the 'art of a 'sycho'oliticalo'erative that he is acting in an abnormal fashion. his, ;ith some good fortune, could bring the 'erson into

    the hands of the 'sycho'olitical o'erative so as to forever more disable him, or to s;erve his loyalties by

    'ain-drug hy'notism.

    )n the subect of obedience itself, the most o'timum obedience is unthin/ing obedience. he command gien

    must be obeyed ;ithout any rationali1ing on the 'art of the subect. he command must, therefore, beim'lanted belo; the thin/ing 'rocess of the subect to be influenced, and must react u'on him in such a ;ay

    as to bring no mental alertness on his 'art.

    $t is in the interest of Psycho'olitics that a 'o'ulation be told that an hy'noti1ed 'erson ;ill not do anythingagainst his actual ;ill, ;ill not commit immoral acts, and ;ill not act so as to endanger himself. 4hile this

    may be true of light, 'arlour hy'notism, it certainly is not true of commands im'lanted ;ith the use of

    electric shoc/, drugs, or heavy 'unishment. $t is counted u'on com'letely that this ;ill be discredited to thegeneral 'ublic by 'sycho'olitical o'eratives, for if it ;ere to be generally /no;n that individuals ;ould obe

    commands harmful to themselves, and ;ould commit immoral acts ;hile under the influence of dee'

    hy'notic commands, the actions of many 'eo'le, ;or/ing un/no;ingly in favor of ommunism, ;ould betoo-;ell understood. Peo'le acting under dee' hy'notic commands should be acting a''arently of their o;n

    volition and out of their o;n convictions.

    he entire subect of 'sycho'olitical hy'nosis, Psycho'olitics in general, de'ends for its defense u'oncontinual 'rotest from authoritative sources that such things are not 'ossible. And, should anyone unmas/ a

    'sycho'olitical o'erative, he should at once declare the ;hole thing a 'hysical im'ossibility, and use his

    authoritative 'osition to discount any accusation. +hould any ;ritings of Psycho'olitics come to vie;, it isonly necessary to brand them a hoa and laugh them out of countenance. hus, 'sycho'olitical activities are

    easy to defend.

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    4hen 'sycho'olitical activities have reached a certain 'ea/, from there on it is almost im'ossible to undo

    them, for the 'o'ulation is already under the duress of obedience to the 'sycho'olitical o'eratives and theirdu'es. he ingredient of obedience is im'ortant, for the com'lete belief in the 'sycho'olitical o'erative

    renders this statement cancelling any challenge about 'sycho'olitical o'erations irrefutable. he o'timum

    circumstances ;ould be to occu'y every 'osition ;hich ;ould be consulted by officials on any question orsus'icion arising on the subect of Psycho'olitics. hus, a 'sychiatric advisor should be 'laced near at hand

    in every government o'eration. As all sus'icions ;ould then be referred to him, no action ;ould ever be

    ta/en, and the goal of ommunism could be reali1ed in that nation.

    Psycho'olitics de'ends, from the vie;'oint of the layman, u'on its fantastic as'ects. hese are its best

    defense, but above all these defenses is im'licit obedience on the 'art of officials and the general 'ublic,

    because of the character of the 'sycho'olitical o'erative in the field of healing.

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    $HAPTER VII

    ANATO(# OF STI('%'S-RESPONSE

    (E$HANIS(S OF (AN

    (an is a stimulus-res'onse animal. !is entire reasoning ca'abilities, even his ethics and morals, de'endsu'on stimulus-res'onse machinery. his has long been demonstrated by such #ussians as Pavlov, and the

    'rinci'les have long been used in handling the recalcitrant, in training children, and in bringing about a state

    of o'timum behaviour on the 'art of a 'o'ulation.

    !aving no inde'endent ;ill of his o;n, (an is easily handled by stimulus-res'onse mechanisms. $t is only

    necessary to install a stimulus into the mental anatomy of (an to have that stimulus reactivate and res'ond

    any time an eterior command source calls it into being.

    he mechanisms of stimulus-res'onse are easily understood. he body ta/es 'ictures of every action in the

    environment around the individual. 4hen the environment includes brutality, terror, shoc/, and other such

    activities, the mental image 'icture gained, contains in itself all the ingredients of the environment. $f theindividual, himself, ;as inured during the moment, the inury, itself, ;ill re manifest ;hen called u'on to

    res'ond by an eterior command source.

    As an eam'le of this, if an individual is beaten, and is told during the entirety of the beating that he mustobey certain officials, he ;ill, in the future, feel the beginnings of the 'ain the moment he begins to disobey

    he installed 'ain, itself, reacts as a 'oliceman, for the e'erience of the individual demonstrates to him thahe cannot combat, and ;ill receive 'ain from, certain officials.

    he mind can become very com'le in its stimulus res'onses. As easily demonstrated in hy'notism, an enti

    chain of commands, having to do ;ith a great many com'le actions, can be beaten, shoc/ed, or terrori1edinto a mind, and ;ill there lie dormant until called into vie; by some similarity in the circumstances of the

    environment to the incident of 'unishment.

    he stimulus ;e call the "incident of 'unishment" ;here the res'onse mechanism need only contain small

    'art of the stimulus to call into vie; the mental image 'icture, and cause it to eert against the body, the 'aisequence. +o long as the individual obeys the 'icture, or follo;s the commands of the stimulus im'lantationhe is free from 'ain.

    he behaviour of children is regulated in this fashion in every civili1ed country. he father, finding himself

    unable to bring about immediate obedience and training on the 'art of his child, resorts to 'hysical violence,and after administering 'unishment of a 'hysical nature to the child on several occasions, is gratified to

    e'erience com'lete obedience on the 'art of the child each time the father s'ea/s. $n that 'arents are ;ont

    to be lenient ;ith their children, they seldom administer sufficient 'unishment to bring about entirely

    o'timum obedience. he ability of the organism to ;ithstand 'unishment is very great. om'lete andim'licit res'onse can be gained only by stimuli sufficiently brutal to actually inure the organism. he

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    $HAPTER VIII

    &EGRA&ATION SHO$/ AN& EN&'RAN$E

    &egradation and conquest are com'anions.

    $n order to be conquered, a nation must be degraded, either by acts of ;ar, by being overrun, by being force

    into humiliating treaties of 'eace, or by the treatment of her 'o'ulace under the armies of the conqueror.

    !o;ever, degradation can be accom'lished much more insidiously and much more effectively by consisten

    and continual defamation.

    &efamation is the best and foremost ;ea'on of Psycho'olitics on the broad field. ontinual and constant

    degradation of national leaders, national institutions, national 'ractices, and national heroes must be

    systematically carried out, but this is the chief function of the ommunist Party (embers, in general, not th'sycho'olitician.

    he realm of defamation and degradation, of the 'sycho'olitician, is (an himself. By attac/ing the characteand morals of (an himself, and by bringing about,through contamination of youth, a general degraded

    feeling, command of the 'o'ulace is facilitated to a very mar/ed degree.

    here is a curve of degradation ;hich leads do;n;ard to a 'oint ;here the endurance of an individual isalmost at end, and any sudden action to;ard him ;ill 'lace him in a state of shoc/. +imilarly, a soldier held

    'risoner can be abused, denied, defamed, and degraded until the slightest motion on the 'art of his ca'tors

    ;ill cause him to flinch. +imilarly, the slightest ;ord on the 'art of his ca'tors ;ill cause him to obey, orvary his loyalties and beliefs. iven sufficient degradation, a 'risoner can be caused to murder his fello;

    countrymen in the same stoc/ade. E'eriments on erman 'risoners have lately demonstrated that only afte

    seventy days of filthy food, little slee', and nearly untenable quarters, that the least motion to;ard the'risoner ;ould bring about a state of shoc/ beyond his endurance threshold, and ;ould cause him to

    hy'notically receive anything said to him. hus, it is 'ossible, in an entire stoc/ade of 'risoners, to the

    number of thousands, to being about a state of com'lete servile obedience, and ;ithout the labor of'ersonally addressing each one, to 'ervert their loyalties and im'lant in them adequate commands to insure

    their future conduct, even ;hen released to their o;n 'eo'le.

    By lo;er the endurance of a 'erson, a grou', or a nation, and by constant degradation and defamation, it is'ossible to induce, thus, a state of shoc/ ;hich ;ill receive adequately any command given.

    he first thing to be degraded in any nation is the state of (an, himself. Nations ;hich have high ethical ton

    are difficult to conquer. heir loyalties are hard to sha/e, their allegiance to their leaders is fanatical, and;hat they usually call their s'iritual integrity cannot be violated by duress. $t is not efficient to attac/ a natio

    in such a frame of mind. $t is the basic 'ur'ose of Psycho'olitics to reduce that state of mind to a 'oint ;he

    it can be ordered and enslaved. hus, the first target is (an, himself. !e must be degraded from a s'iritualbeing to an animalistic reaction 'attern. !e must thin/ of himself as an animal, ca'able only of animalistic

    reactions. !e must no longer thin/ of himself, or of his fello;s, as ca'able of "s'iritual endurance," ornobility.

    he best a''roach to;ard degradation in its first stages is the 'ro'aganda of "scientific a''roach" to (an.

    (an must be consistently demonstrated to be a mechanism ;ithout individuality, and it must be educatedinto a 'o'ulace under attac/ that (an>s individualistic reactions are the 'roduct of mental derangement. he

    'o'ulace must be brought into the belief that every individual ;ithin it ;ho rebels in any ;ay, sha'e, or for

    against the efforts and activities to enslave the ;hole, must be considered to be a deranged 'erson ;hose

    eccentricities are neurotic and insane, and ;ho must have at once the treatment of a 'sycho'olitician.

    An o'timum condition in such a 'rogram of degradation ;ould address itself to the military forces of the

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    nation, and bring them ra'idly a;ay from any other belief than the disobedient one must be subected to

    "mental treatment." An enslavement of a 'o'ulation can fail only if these rebellious individuals are left toeert their individual influences u'on their fello; citi1ens, s'ar/ing them into rebellion, calling into accoun

    their nobilities and freedoms. 2nless these restless individuals are stam'ed out and given into the hands of

    'sycho'olitical o'eratives early in the conquest,there ;ill be nothing but trouble as the conquest continues.he officials of the government, students, readers, 'arta/ers of entertainment,must all be indoctrinated, by

    ;hatever means, into the com'lete belief that the restless, the ambitions, the natural leaders, are suffering

    from environmental maladustments, ;hich can only be healed by recourse to 'sycho'olitical o'eratives inthe guise of mental healers.

    By thus degrading the general belief in the status of (an it is relatively sim'le, ;ith co-o'eration from the

    economic salients being driven into the country, to drive citi1ens a'art, one from another, to bring about aquestion of the ;isdom of their o;n government, and to cause them to actively beg for enslavement.

    he educational 'rograms of Psycho'olitics must, at every hand, see/ out the levels of youth ;ho ;illbecome the leaders in the country>s future, and educate them into the belief of the animalistic nature of (an

    his must be made fashionable. hey must be taught to fro;n u'on ideas, u'on individual endeavor. hey

    must be taught, above all things, that the salvation of (an is to be found only by his adusting thoroughly to

    this environment.

    his educational 'rogram in the field of Psycho'olitics, can best be follo;ed by bringing about a com'ulsor

    training in some subect such as 'sychology or other mental 'ractice, and ascertaining that each broad

    'rogram of 'sycho'olitical training be su'ervised by a 'sychiatrist ;ho is a trained 'sycho'olitical o'erativ

    As it seems in foreign nations that the church is the most ennobling influence, each and every branch and

    activity of each and every church, must, one ;ay or another, be discredited. #eligion must becomeunfashionable by demonstrating broadly, through 'sycho'olitical indoctrination, that the soul is non-eisten

    and that (an is an animal. he lying mechanisms of hristianity lead men to foolishly brave deeds. By

    teaching them that there is a life here-after, the liability of courageous acts, ;hile living, is thus lessened. hliability of any act must be mar/edly increased if a 'o'ulace is to be obedient. hus, there must be no

    standing belief in the church, and the 'o;er of the church must be denied at every hand.

    he 'sycho'olitical o'erative, in his 'rogram of degradation, should at all times bring into question anyfamily ;hich is dee'ly religious, and, should any neurosis or insanity be occasioned in that family, to blame

    and hold res'onsible their religious connections for the neurotic or 'sychotic condition. #eligion must be

    made synonymous ;ith neurosis and 'sychosis. Peo'le ;ho are dee'ly religious ;ould be less and less heldres'onsible for their o;n sanity, and should more and more be relegated to the ministrations of

    'sycho'olitical o'eratives.

    By 'erverting the institutions of a nation and bringing about a general degradation, by interfering ;ith theeconomics of a nation to the degree that 'rivation and de'ression come about, only minor shoc/s ;ill be

    necessary to 'roduce, on the 'o'ulace as a ;hole, an obedient reaction or an hysteria. hus, the mere threat

    of ;ar, the mere threat of aviation bombings, could cause the 'o'ulation to sue instantly for 'eace. $t is along and arduous road for the 'sycho'olitical o'erative to achieve this state of mind on the 'art of the ;hol

    nation, but no more than t;enty or thirty years should be necessary in the entire 'rogram. !aving to hand, a

    ;e do, ;ea'ons ;ith ;hich to accom'lish the goal.

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    $HAPTER I)

    THE ORGANI0ATION OF

    (ENTA% HEA%TH $A(PAIGNS

    Psycho'olitical o'eratives should at all times be alert to the o''ortunity to organi1e "for the betterment of thcommunity" mental health clubs or grou's. By thus inviting the co-o'eration of the 'o'ulation as a ;hole in

    mental health 'rograms, the terrors of mental aberration can be disseminated throughout the 'o'ulace.

    3urthermore, each one of these mental health grou's,'ro'erly guided, can bring, at last, legislative 'ressure

    against the government to secure adequately the 'osition of the 'sycho'olitical o'erative, and to obtain forhim government grants and facilities, thus bringing a government to finance its o;n do;nfall.

    (ental health organi1ations must carefully delete from their ran/s anyone actually 'roficient in the handlingor treatment of mental health. hus must be ecluded 'riests, ministers, actually trained 'sychoanalysts, goo

    hy'notists, or trained &ianeticists. hese, ;ith some cogni1ance on the subect of mental aberration and its

    treatment, and ;ith some e'erience in observing the mentally deranged, if allo;ed frequency ;ithininstitutions,and if 'ermitted to receive literature, ;ould, sooner or later, become sus'icious of the activities

    engaged u'on by the 'sycho'olitical o'erative. hese must be defamed and ecluded as "untrained,"

    "uns/illful," "quac/s," or "'er'etrators of hoaes."

    No mental health movement ;ith actual goals of mental thera'y should be continued in eistence in anynation. 3or instance, the use of hinese acu'uncture in the treatment of mental and 'hysical derangement

    must, in hina, be stam'ed out and discredited thoroughly, as it has some efficacy, and, more im'ortantly, it'ractitioners understand, through long conversation ;ith it, many of the 'rinci'les of actual mental health

    and aberration.

    $n the field of mental health, the 'sycho'olitician mustoccu'y, and continue to occu'y, through various

    arguments, the authoritative 'osition on the subect. here is al;ays the danger that 'roblems of mental

    health may be resolved by some individual or grou', ;hich might then derange the 'rogram of the

    'sycho'olitical o'erative in his mental health clubs.

    ity officials, socialites, and other un/no;ing individuals, on the subect of mental health, should be invitedto full co-o'eration in the activity of mental health grou's. But the entirety of this activity should be to

    finance better facilities for the 'sycho'olitical 'ractitioner. o these grou's it must be continually stressedthat the entire subect of mental illness is so com'le that none of them, certainly, could understand any 'ar

    of it. hus, the club should be /e't on a social and financial level.

    4here grou's interested in the health of the community have already been formed, they should be infiltrated

    and ta/en over, and if this is not 'ossible, they should be discredited and debarred, and the officialdom of th

    area should be invited to stam' them out as dangerous.

    4hen a hostile grou' dedicated to mental health is discovered, the 'sycho'olitician should have recourse to

    the mechanisms of 'eyote, mescaline, and later drugs ;hich cause tem'orary insanity. !e should send'ersons, 'referably those ;ell under his control, into the mental health grou', ;hether hristian +cience or&ianetics or faith 'reachers to demonstrate their abilities u'on this ne; 'erson. hese, in demonstrating the

    abilities, ;ill usually act ;ith enthusiasm. (id;ay in the course of their treatment, a quiet inection of

    'eyote, mescaline, or other drug, or an electric shoc/, ;ill 'roduce the sym'toms of insanity in the 'atient;hich has been sent to the target grou'. he 'atient thus demonstrating momentary insanity should be

    immediately be re'orted to the 'olice and ta/en a;ay to some area of incarceration managed by

    'sycho'olitical o'eratives, and so 'laced out of site. )fficialdom ;ill thus come into a belief that this grou'

    drives individuals insane by their 'ractices,and the 'ractices of the grou' ;ill them be des'ised and'rohibited by la;.

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    he values of a ;ides'read mental health organi1ation are manifest ;hen one reali1es that any government

    can be forced to 'rovide facilities for 'sycho'olitical o'eratives in the form of 'sychiatric ;ards in allhos'itals, in national institutions totally in the hands of 'sycho'olitical o'eratives, and in the establishment

    of clinics ;here youth can be contacted and arranged more seemingly to the 'ur'oses of Psycho'olitics.

    +uch grou's form a 'olitical force, ;hich can then legali1e any la; or authority desired for the'sycho'olitical o'erative.

    he securing of authority over such mental health organi1ations is done mainly be a''eal to education. A'sycho'olitical o'erative should ma/e sure that those 'sychiatrists he controls, those 'sychologists ;hom h

    has under his orders, have been trained for an ecessively long 'eriod of time. he longer the training 'erio

    ;hich can be required, the safer the 'sycho'olitical 'rogram, since no ne; grou' of 'ractitioners can arise tdisclose and dismay 'sycho'olitical 'rograms. 3urthermore, the grou's themselves cannot ho'e to obtain an

    full /no;ledge of the subect,not having behind them many, many years of intensive training.

    *ienna has been carefully maintained by Psycho'olitics, since it ;as the home of Psychoanalysis. Althoughour activities have long been dis'ersed any of the gains made by 3reudian grou's, and have ta/en over these

    grou's, the 'roimity of *ienna to #ussia, ;here Psycho'olitics is o'erating abroad, and the necessity "for

    further study" by 'sycho'olitical o'eratives in the birth-'lace of Psychoanalysis, ma/es 'eriodic contacts;ith headquarters 'ossible. hus the ;ord "'sychoanalysis" must be stressed at all times, and must be

    'retended to be a thorough 'art of the 'sychiatrist>s training.

    Psychoanalysis has the very valuable 'ossession of a vocabulary, and a ;or/ability ;hich is sufficiently 'oto avoid recovery of 'sycho'olitical im'lantations. $t can be made fashionable throughout mental health

    organi1ations, and by learning its 'atter, and by believing they see some of