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Brain-washing
Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics
PSYCHOPOLITICS - 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 of enemy nations through "mental
healing."
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EDITORIAL NOTE
This book is a synthesis of information gathered through observation,
discussion, investigation and experience over the last ten years.
I cannot entirely vouch for its authenticity. Disclosure of the sources from
which it is drawn would undoubtedly lead to great difficulties for them. And
in matters of this kind the Soviet is not accustomed to the issuance of
validations.
Having compiled this volume I did not easily discover any method of
distributing it since my own facilities and finances are, as is customary
with professors, necessarily limited. Further, the placement of this volume
in anyone's hands constituted to some degree a considerable risk to myself
until I realized that there actually were two American groups in the field
of mental science who were entirely above suspicion, particularly since they
were often mentioned as Soviet targets by my informers and were mentioned in
the actual text of this book as being antipathetic to this Soviet programme.
These two groups were the Christian Scientists and the Dianeticists.
Christian Science is an American Religion, intensely patriotic. Dianetics is
the only entirely American development in the field of the human mind.
Knowing from my information sources that Dianetics and Christian Science and
their people have experienced years of mauling and defamation at Communist
hands, I am submitting to these organizations this work. I wish to express
here my appreciation for their bold resistance to Communism through the
years.
I wish also to express my confidence in the future of the free nations of
earth. Although the soviet has found a chink in the armour of individual
liberty, it is certain that Democratic processes can mend it. That only the
individual himself can protest against assault and injury to him before law,
joined with the fact that the insane have no rights before law, has
permitted in itself this deep ingress into our country's security. So long
as this legal hole exists, there is then no law against driving anyone
insane, even though this action deals as finally with a person as does
murder. The existence today of highly efficient drugs such as LSD,
one-millionth of an ounce of which can create insanity, brings this legal
loophole into focus. By enacting legislation permitting a friend or next of
kin to bring charges in case of assault, and by quickly placing all
treatment of and institutions for the insane in the hands of ministers,
taking it entirely out of the hands of European indoctrinated practitioners,
the entire effort of psychopolitics can be nullified at once.
If you care to check this subject of psychopolitics against current
occurrences in the American scene you will discover the urgency of such
measures.
Charles Stickley, New York City, 1955.
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CONTENTS
Editorial Note
An Address by Beria
CHAPTER I: The History and Definition of
CHAPTER II: The Constitution of Man as a Political
CHAPTER III: Man as an Economic Organism
CHAPTER IV: State Goals for the Individual and Masses
CHAPTER V: An Examination of Loyalties
CHAPTER VI: The General Subject of Obedience
CHAPTER VII: Anatomy of
CHAPTER VIII: Degradation, Shock and
CHAPTER IX: The Organization of Mental Health
CHAPTER X: Conduct Under Fire
CHAPTER XI: The Use of Psychopolitics in Spreading Communism
CHAPTER XII: Violent Remedies
CHAPTER XIII: Recruiting of Psychopolitical Dupes
CHAPTER XIV: The Smashing of Religious Groups
CHAPTER XV: Proposals Which Must Be Avoided
CHAPTER XVI: In Summary
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AN ADDRESS BY BERIA
American students at the Lenin University, I welcome your attendance at
these classes on Psychopolitics.
Psychopolitics is an important if less known division of Geo-politics. It is
less known because it must necessarily deal with highly educated personnel,
the very top strata of "mental healing".
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 in chaos, distrust, economic depression and
scientific turmoil. At 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 labour 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 Freud, James, Eddy
and others amongst your misguided peoples must be swept away. 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 labour until every doctor and psychiatrist is either a
psychopolitician or an unwitting assistant to our aims.
You must labour 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
statesman so labelled 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.
Psychopolitics is a solemn charge. With it you can erase our enemies as
insects. You can cripple the efficiency of leaders by striking insanity into
their families through the use of drugs. You can wipe them away with
testimony as to their insanity. By our technologies you can even bring about
insanity itself when they seem too resistive.
You can change their loyalties by psychopolitics. Given a short time with a
psychopolitician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in out hands
or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind.
However you labour under certain dangers. It may happen that remedies for
our "treatments" may be discovered. It may occur that a public hue and cry
may arise against "mental healing". It may thus occur that all mental
healing might be placed in the hands of ministers and be taken out of the
hands of our psychologists and psychiatrists. But the Capitalistic thirst
for control, Capitalistic inhumanity and a general public terror of insanity
can be brought to guard against these things. But should they occur, should
independent researchers actually discover means to undo psychopolitical
procedures, you must not rest, you must not eat or sleep, you must not stint
one tiniest bit of available money to campaign against it, discredit it,
strike it down and render it void. For by an effective means all our actions
and researches could be undone.
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
labour 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 as to your effectiveness make your 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.
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CHAPTER I
THE HISTORY AND DEFINITION OF PSYCHOPOLITICS
Although 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
subjects in order to accomplish his ends, he has thus resorted to
punishments. This is true of every tribe and state in the history of Man.
Today, Russian culture has evoked more certain and definite methods of
aligning and securing the loyalties of persons and populaces, and of
enforcing obedience upon them. This modern out growth of old practices 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
outmoded 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 the 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 other, has 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 definition of Psychopolitics follows.
Psychopolitics is the art and science of asserting and maintaining dominion
over the thoughts and loyalties of individuals, officers, bureaux, and
masses, and the effecting of the conquest of enemy nations through "mental
healing".
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 a 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 the subject 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 implantation. The next
is the general application of Psychopolitics within Russia. The next is the
organization and use of counter-Psychopolitics. The next is the use of
Psychopolitics in the conquest of foreign nations. The next is
psychopolitical organizations outside Russia, their composition and
activity. The next is the creation of slave philosophy in an 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 subcategories, 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 pseudointellectualism, 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 a psycho-
political 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 Russia 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.
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CHAPTER II
THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN AS A POLITICAL ORGANISM
Man 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 other organs and the glandular
system, brings about the death of the "individual". We can see with ease
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 an 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
how 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 its pus 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 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 wilful and unaligned forces are no
more than illness which will bring about 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
thinkingness, 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 organ can be observed to be lessened in
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, as 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
toward 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 part
of his personality which, in itself, is making havoc with the person's own
constitution, as well as with the group with which the person is connected.
If the animal man were permitted to continue undisturbed by
counter-revolutionary propaganda, if we 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 to the State itself, where he is permitted to question 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 the
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 to 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 loyalties to the `petite bourgeoisie', to 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, the 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 to 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.
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CHAPTER III
MAN AS AN ECONOMIC ORGANISM
Man is subject to certain desires and needs which are as natural to his
beingness 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 "petite bour- geoise", Capitalism, and other 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 Capi- talist
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
clothes 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 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 of 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 con- cern 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
if left alone 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 this 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 is an insanity. If we wish to
create an insanity we need only glut or deprive an individual at long length
beyond the ability to with- stand and we have a mental imbalance. A simple
example of this is the alteration 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 cycle of booms and depressions inherent in
Capitalistic nations in order to assert 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 continues to point up
the wealth the period is delivering to the select 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 economic measures
and Communist goals connected with them.
The masses masses last come to believe that only excessive taxation of the
rich can relieve 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 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 disturbance and chaos
and the passing of laws adapted to our purposes, and to him we must leave
this task. The psycho- political operator plays a distinctly different role
in the drama.
The rich, the skilled in finance, the well informed in govern- ment are
particular and individual targets for the psychopoliti- cian. His is the
role of taking off the board those individuals who would halt or corrupt
Communist economic programmes. Thus every rich man, every statesman, every
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 crimi- nality or insanity. This brings at once some one 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, as the side of every rich or influential
man these could be placed a psychopolitical operator, an undoubted authority
in the field of "mental healing" who could then, by his advice or guided
opinions, or through the medium of a wife or daughter, direct the optimum
policy to em- broil 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 his death by 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 thinks of war as
attack with force performed by soldiers and machines. He does not know that
a more effective if somewhat longer war 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.
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CHAPTER IV
STATE GOALS FOR THE INDIVIDUAL AND MASSES
Just 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 people who em- braced 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 com- mand there can be no alignment of bodily functions.
Without rigorous and forthright control, there can 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 inter- preted, one discovers inevitably
that there has been an interposi- tion of self-willedness, of greed, of
idleness, or of rugged indi- vidualism and self-centred 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 Psycho- politics 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 for their completion upon the loyalty and obedience of the workers.
These, engaged for the most part<,> in hard labours, have little time for
idle speculation, which is good. But, above them, unfortunately, there must
be foremen of one or another position, any 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.
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CHAPTER V
AN EXAMINATION OF LOYALTIES
If 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 dis- loyalty, 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 it 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 that 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 that 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 re-growth and re-establish- ment of organs which
have been rebelled against by that person- ality. In that 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 indoc- trination 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 indi- vidual 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
prac- tice 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,
the best of psychopolitical tech- niques, implantation, with the
technologies of neo-hypnotism. Such duress must have in its first part a
defamation of the loyal- ties, and its second, the of new loyalties. A good
and experienced psychopolitical operator, working under the most favourable
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, require considerably more
finesse than is usually neces- sary to the situation. Mass neo-hypnotism can
accomplish more or less the same results when guided by an experienced
psycho- political 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 effec- tively 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 grand loyalty to a foreman or a woman, and
then as easily aban- don 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 privation 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 of 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 some- what 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 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 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 Russia 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 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 person himself, and his associates, in ignorance of the operation. In
this case a simple 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 their is any doubt whatever about the success of an
operation against an important person, to select out as a psychopolitical
target persons in his vicinity in whom he is 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 or decisions
of the important person, but merely wishes to remove him from effective
action, the attention of the psychopolitical operator need not 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 into 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 to bring about his demise in such a way as to resemble suicide.
Psychopolitical operators have handled such situations tens of thousands of
times within and without Russia.
It is the 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 psycho- political 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 a person's reputation 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 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 is 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 accusa- tions 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 and hopelessness 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 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
utiliz- ing this reaction by causing a revulsion on the part of a populace
against its leader 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 populaces 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 operatives
infiltrate the healing arts of a nation marked for conquest, and bring from
that quarter continuous pressure against the population and the government
until at last the conquest is . This is the subject and goal of Psycho-
politics, 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 wherever possible by the State. The next
loyalty is to his friends and local environ- ment. This is destroyed by
lowering his trust and bringing about reportings upon him allegedly by his
fellows or the town or village authorities. The next is to his 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 forbiddings 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 Com- munism, to gain their loyalty to a Communist movement.
Denying a Capitalist country easy access to courts, bringing about and
supporting propaganda to destroy home, creating and continuous juvenile
delinquency, forcing upon the state all manner of practices to divorce the
child from it will in the end create the chaos necessary to Communism.
Under the saccharine guise of assistance to them, rigorous child labour laws
are the best means to deny the child any right in the society. By refusing
to let him earn, by forcing him into un- wanted 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 com- plete 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 nations 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, Capitalism's 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 aboard to undermine the loyalty of the citizens in general and
the teen-ager in particular.
The role of the psychopolitical operator in this 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 them- selves.
The mis-alignment of the loyalty of youth to a Capitalistic nation sets the
proper stage for a realignment of their loyalties with Communism. Creating a
greed for drugs, sexual misbe- haviour and uncontrolled freedom and
presenting this to them as a benefit of Communism will with ease bring about
our align- ment.
In the case of strong leaders amongst youthful groups, a psychopolitical
operator can work in many ways to use a discard that leadership. If it is to
be used, the character of the 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
juvenile authorities. When this has been effected it can be hoped that a
psychopolitical operator, by reason of child adviser 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 men or woman. If
such do not exist they can be created. By making available to them young
boys or girls in the "security" of the jail or the detention home, and by
appearing with flash cameras or witnesses, one becomes equipped with a whip
ade- quate 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
and<,> on police staffs which could then be filled with psychopolitical
operators, who be- come then 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 the youth and adults in
courts one day the demand for psychopolitical operators could become such
that even the armed services will use "authori- ties 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 event 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.
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CHAPTER VI
THE GENERAL SUBJECT OF OBEDIENCE
Obedience is the result of force.
Everywhere we look in the history of Earth we discover that obedience to new
rules has come about entirely through the demonstration on the part of those
rulers of greater force than was to be discovered in the old ruler. A
population overridden, conqueror by war, is obedient to its conqueror. It is
obedient to its conqueror because its conqueror has exhibited more force.
Concurrent with force is brutality, for there are human con- siderations
involved which also represent force. The most barbaric, unrestrained, brutal
use of force, if carried far enough, invokes obedience. Savage force,
sufficiently long displayed toward any individual, will bring about his
concurrence with any principle or order.
Force is the antithesis of humanizing actions. It is so synonymous in the
human mind with savageness, lawlessness, brutality, and barbarism, that it
is only necessary to display an inhuman attitude toward people, to be
granted by those people the possession of force.
Any organization which has the spirit and courage to display inhumanity,
savageness, brutality, and an uncompromising lack of humanity, will be
obeyed. Such a use of force is, itself, the essential ingredient of
greatness. We have to hand no less an example than our great Communist
Leaders, who, in moments of duress and trial, when faced by Czarist rule,
continued over the heads of an enslaved populace, yet displayed sufficient
courage never to stay their hands in the execution of the conversion of the
Russian State to Communist rule.
If you would have obedience you must have no compromise with humanity. If
you would have obedience you must make it clearly understood that you have
no mercy. Man is an Animal. He understood, in the final analysis, only those
things which a brute understands.
As an example of this, we find an individual refusing to obey and being
struck. His refusal to obey is now less vociferous. He is struck again, and
his resistance is lessened once more. He is hammered and pounded again and
again, until, at length, his only thought is direct and implicit obedience
to that person from whom the force has emanated. This is a proven principle.
It is proven because it is the main principle Man, the animal, has used
since his earliest beginnings. It is the only principle which has been
effective, the only principle which has brought about a wide and continued
belief. For it is to our benefit that an individual who is struck again and
again and again from a certain source, will, at length, hypnotically believe
anything he is told by the source of the blows.
The stupidity of Western civilizations is best demonstrated by the fact that
they believe hypnotism is a thing of mind, of attention, and a desire for
unconsciousness. This is not true. Only when a person has been beaten,
punished, and mercilessly hammered, can hypnotism upon him be guaranteed in
its effec- tiveness. It is stated by Western authorities on hypnosis that
only some twenty per cent. of the people are susceptible to hypnotism. This
statement is very untrue. Given enough punishment, all of the people in any
time and place are susceptible to hypnotism. In other words, by adding
force, hypnotism is made uniformly effective. Where unconsciousness could
not be induced by simple concentration upon the hypnotist, unconsciousness
can be induced by drugs, by blows, by electric shock, and by other means.
And where unconsciousness cannot be induced so as to make an implantation or
an hypnotic command effective, it is only neces- sary to amputate the
functioning portions of the animal man's brain to render him null and void
and no longer a menace. Thus, we find that hypnotism is entirely effective.
The mechanisms of hypnotism demonstrate clearly that people can be made to
believe in certain conditions, and even their environment or in politics, by
the administration of force. Thus, it is necessary for a psychopolitician to
be an expert in the administration of forces. Thus, he can bring about
implicit obedience, not only on the part of individual members of the
populace, but on the entire populace itself and its government. He need only
take unto himself a sufficiently savage role, a sufficiently uncompromising
inhuman attitude, and he will be obeyed and believed.
The subject of hypnotism is a subject of belief. What can people be made to
believe? They can be made to believe any- thing which is administered to
them with sufficient brutality and force. The obedience of a populace is as
good as they will believe.
Despicable religions, such as Christianity, knew this. They knew that if
enough faith could be brought into being, a populace could be enslaved by
the Christian mockeries of humanity and mercy, and thus could be disarmed.
But one need not count upon this act of faith to bring about a broad belief.
One must only exhibit enough force, enough inhumanity, enough brutality and
savageness to create implicit belief and therefore and thereby implicit
obedience. As Communism is a matter of belief, its study is a study of
force.
The earliest Russian psychiatrists, pioneering the science of psychiatry,
understood thoroughly that hypnosis is induced by acute fear. They
discovered it could also be induced by shock of an emotional nature, and
also by extreme privation, as well as by blows and drugs.
In order to induce a high state of hypnogogy in an individual, a group, or a
population, an element of terror must always be present on the part of those
who would govern. The psychiatrist is aptly suited to this role, for his
brutalities are committed in the name of science and are inexplicably
complex, and entirely out of view of the human understanding. A sufficient
popular terror of the psychiatrist will, in itself, bring about insanity on
the part of many individuals. A psychopolitical operative, then, can,
entirely cloaked with authority, commence and continue a cam- paign of
propaganda, describing various "treatments" which are administered to the
insane. A psychopolitical operative should at all times insist that there
treatments are therapeutic and neces- sary. He can, in all of his literature
and his books, list large numbers of pretended cures by these means. But
these "cures" need not actually produce any recovery from a state of
disturb- ance. As long as the psychopolitical operative or his dupes are the
only authorities as to the difference between sanity and insanity, their
word as to the therapeutic value of such treatment will be the final word.
No layman would dare adventure to place judgment upon the state of sanity of
an individual whom the psychiatrist has already declared insane. The
individual himself is unable to complain, and his family, as will be covered
later, is already discredited by the occurrence of insanity in their midst.
There must be other adjudicators of insanity, otherwise it could be
disclosed that the brutalities practiced in the name of treatment are not
therapeutic.
A psychopolitical operative has no interest in "therapeutic means" or
"cures". The greater number of insane in the country where he is operating,
the larger number of the populace will come under his view, and the greater
will become his facilities. Because the problem is apparently mounting into
uncontrollable heights, he can more and more operate in an atmosphere of
emergency, which again excuses his use of such treatments as electric shock,
the prefrontal lobotomy, trans-orbital leucotomy, and other operations
long-since practiced in Russia on political prisoners.
It is to the interest of the psychopolitical operative that the possibility
of curing the insane be outlawed and ruled out at all times. For the sake of
obedience on the part of the population and their general reaction, a level
of brutality must, at all costs, be maintained. Only in this way can the
absolute judgement of the psychopolitical operative as to the sanity or
insanity of public figures be maintained in complete belief. Using
sufficient brutality upon their patients, the public at large will come to
believe utterly anything they say about their patients. Furthermore, and
much more important, the field of the mind must be sufficiently domin- ated
by the psychopolitical operative, so that wherever tenets of the mind are
taught they will be hypnotically believed. The psychopolitical operative,
having under his control all psychology classes in an area, can thus bring
about a complete reformation of the future leaders of a country in their
educational processes, and so prepare them for Communism.
To be obeyed, one must be believed. If one is sufficiently believed, one
will unquestioningly be obeyed.
When he is fortunate enough to obtain into his hands anyone near to a
political or important figure, this factor of obedience becomes very
important. A certain amount of fear or terror must be engendered in the
person under treatment so that this person will then take immediate orders,
completely and unquestioningly, from the psychopolitical operative, and so
be able to influence the actions of that person who is to be reached.
Bringing about this state of mind on the part of a populace and its leaders
-- that a psychopolitical operative must, at all times, be believed -- could
eventually be attended by very good fortune. It is not too much to hope that
psychopolitical operatives would then, in a country such as the United
States, become the most intimate advisers to political figures, even to the
point of advising the entirety of a political party as to it actions in an
election.
The long view is the important view. Belief is engendered by a certain
amount of fear and terror from an authoritative level, and this will be
followed by obedience.
The general propaganda which would best serve Psychopolitics would be a
continual insistence that certain authoritative levels of healing, deemed
this or that the correct treatment on insanity. These treatments must always
include a certain amount of brutality. Propaganda should continue and stress
the rising incidence of insanity in a country. The entire field of human
behaviour, for the benefit of the country, can, at length, be broadened into
abnormal behaviour. Thus, anyone indulging in any eccentricity, particularly
the eccentricity of combating psy- chopolitics, could be silenced by the
authoritative opinion on the part of a psychopolitical operative that he was
acting in an ab- normal fashion. This, with some good fortune, could bring
the person into the hands of the psychopolitical operative so as to forever
more disable him, or to swerve his loyalties by pain-drug hypnotism.
On the subject of obedience itself, the most optimum obedience is unthinking
obedience. The command given must be obeyed without and rationalizing on the
part of the subject. The com- mand must, therefore, be implanted below the
thinking processes of the subject to be influenced, and must react upon him
in such a way as to bring no mental alertness on his part.
It is in the interest of Psychopolitics that a population be told that an
hypnotized person will not do anything against his actual will, will not
commit immoral acts, and will not act so as to endanger himself. While this
may be true of light, parlour hypnotism, it certainly is not true of
commands implanted with the use of electric shocks, drugs, or heavy
punishment. It is counted upon completely that this will be discredited to
the general public by psychopolitical operatives, for if it were to be
generally known that individuals would obey commands harmful to themselves,
and would commit immoral acts while under the influence of deep hypnotic
commands, the actions of many people, working unknowingly in favour of
Communism, would be too-well under- stood. People acting under deep hypnotic
commands should be acting apparently of their own volition and out of their
own convictions.
The entire subject of psychopolitical hypnosis, Psychopolitics in general,
depends for its defence upon continuous protest from authoritative sources
that such things are not possible. And, should anyone unmask a
psychopolitical operative, he should at once declare the whole thing a
physical impossibility, and use his authoritative position to discount any
accusation. Should any writings of Psychopolitics come to view, it is only
necessary to brand them a hoax and laugh the out of countenance. Thus,
psychopolitical activities are easy to defend.
When psychopolitical activities have reached a certain peak, from there on
it is almost impossible to undo them, for the population is already under
the duress of obedience to the psycho- political operatives and their dupes.
The ingredient of obedience is important, for the complete belief in the
psychopolitical opera- tive renders his statement cancelling any challenge
about psycho- political operatives irrefutable. The optimum circumstances
would be to occupy every position which would be consulted by officials on
any question or suspicion arising on the subject of Psychopolitics. Thus, a
psychiatric adviser should be placed near to hand in every government
operation. As all suspicions would then be referred to him, no action would
ever be taken, and the goal of Communism could be realized in that nation.
Psychopolitics depends, from the viewpoint of the layman, upon its fantastic
aspects. These are its best defence, but above all these defences is
implicit obedience on the part of officials and the general public, because
of the character of the psychopolitical operative in the field of healing.
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CHAPTER VII
ANATOMY OF STIMULUS-RESPONSE MECHANISMS OF MAN
Man is a stimulus-responce animal. His entire reasoning capa- bilities, even
his ethics and morals, depend upon stimulus-responce machinery. This has
long been demonstrated by such Russians as Pavlov, and the principles have
long been used in handling the recalcitrant, in training children, and in
bringing about a state of optimum behaviour on the part of a population.
Having no independent will of his own, Man is easily handled by
stimulus-responce mechanisms. It is only necessary to install a stimulus
into the mental anatomy of Man to have that stimulus reactivate and respond
any time an exterior command source calls it into being.
The mechanisms of stimulus-responce are easily understood. The body takes
pictures of every action in the environment around an individual. When the
environment includes brutality, terror, shock, and other such activities,
the mental image picture gained contains in itself all the ingredients of
the environment. It the individual, himself, was injured during that moment,
the injury, itself, will re-manifest when called upon to respond by an
exterior command source.
As an example of this, if an individual is beaten, and is told during the
entirety of the beating that he must obey certain officials, he will, in the
future, feel the beginnings of the pain the moment he begins to disobey. The
installed pain itself reacts as a policeman, for the experience of the
individual demonstrates to him that he cannot combat, and will receive pain
from, certain officials.
The mind can become very complex in its stimulus responses. As easily
demonstrated in hypnotism, an entire chain of com- mands, having to do with
a great many complex actions, can be beaten, shocked, or terrorized into a
mind, and will there lie dormant until called into view by some similarity
in the circum- stances of the environment to the incident of punishment.
The stimulus we call the "incident of punishment" where the response
mechanism need only contain some small part of the stimulus to call into
view the mental image picture, and cause to exert against the body the pain
sequence. So long as the individual obeys the picture, or follows the
commands of the stimulus implantation he is free from pain.
The behaviour of children is regulated in this fashion in every civilized
country. The father, finding himself unable to bring about immediate
obedience and training on the part of his child, resorts to physical
violence, and after administering punishment of a physical nature to the
child on several occasions, is gratified to experience complete obedience on
the part of the child each time the father speaks. In that parents are wont
to be lenient with their children, they seldom administer sufficient
punishment to bring about entirely optimum obedience. The ability of the
organism to withstand punishment is very great. Complete and implicit
response can be gained only by stimuli sufficiently brutal to actually
injure the organism. The Cossack method of breaking wild horses is a useful
example. The horse will not restrain itself or take any of the rider's
commands. The rider, wishing to break it, mounts, and takes a flask of
strong Vodka, and smashes it between the horses ears. The horse, struck to
its knees, its eyes filled with alcohol, mistakes the dampness for blood,
instantly and thereafter gives its attention to the rider and never needs
further breaking. Difficulty in breaking horses is only occasioned when
light punishments are administered. There is some mawkish sentimentality
about "breaking the spirit", but what is desired here is an obedient horse,
and sufficient brutality brings about an obedient horse.
The stimulus-responce mechanisms of the body are such that the pain and the
command subdivide so as to counter each other. The mental image picture of
the punishment will not become effective upon the individual unless the
command content is dis- obeyed. It is pointed out in many early Russian
writings that this is a survival mechanism. It has already been well and
thoroughly used in the survival of Communism.
It is only necessary to deliver into the organism a sufficient stimulus to
gain an adequate response.
So long as the organism obeys the stimulus whenever it is restimulated in
the future, it does not suffer from the pain of the stimulus. But should it
entirely disobey the command content of the stimulus, the stimulus reacts to
punish the individual. Thus, we have an optimum circumstance, and one of the
basic principles of Psychopolitics. A sufficiently installed stimulus will
thereafter remain as a police mechanism within the individual to cause him
to follow the commands and directions given to him. Should he fail to follow
these commands and directions, the stimulus mech- anism will go into action.
As the commands are there with the moment of duress, the commands themselves
need never be repeated, and if the individual were to depart thousands of
miles away from the psychopolitical operative, he will still obey the
psychopolitical operative, or, himself, become extremely ill and in agony.
These principles, built from the earliest days of Pavlov, by constant and
continuous Russian development, have, at last, become of enormous use to us
in our conquest. For less modern and well-informed countries of Earth,
lacking this mechanism, failing to understand it, and coaxed into somnolence
by our own psychopolitical operatives, who discount and disclaim it, cannot
avoid succumbing to it.
The body is less able to resist a stimulus if it has insufficient food and
is weary. Therefore, it is necessary to administer all such stimuli to
individuals when their ability to resist has been reduced by privation and
exhaustion. Refusal to let them sleep over many day, denying them adequate
food, then brings about an optimum state for the receipt of a stimulus. If
the person is then given an electric shock, and is told while the shock is
in action that he must obey and do certain things, he has no choice but to
do them, or to re-experience, because of his mental image picture of it, the
electric shock. This highly scientific and intensely workable mechanism
cannot be over-estimated in the practice of psychopolitics.
Drugging the individual produces an artificial exhaustion, and if he is
drugged, or shocked and beaten, and given a string of commands, his
loyalties, themselves, can be definitely rearranged. This is P.D.H., or
Pain-Drug Hypnosis.
The psychopolitical operative in training should be thoroughly studied in
the subject of hypnotism and post-hypnotic suggestion. He should pay
particular attention to the "forgetter mechanism" aspect of hypnotism, which
is to say, implantation in the uncon- scious mind. He should note
particularly that a person given a command in an hypnotic state, and then
told when still in that condition to forget it, will execute it on a
stimulus-responce signal in the environment after he has "awakened" from his
hypnotic trance.
Having mastered these details fully, he should, by practicing upon criminals
and prisoners or inmates available to him, pro- duce the hypnotic trance by
drugs, and drive home post-hypnotic suggestions by pain administered to the
drugged person. He should then study the reactions of the person when
"awakened", and should give him the stimulus-responce signal which would
throw into action the commands given while in a drugged state of duress. By
much practice he can then learn the threshold dosages of various drugs, and
the amount of duress in terms of electric shock of additional drug shock
necessary to produce the optimum obedience to the commands. He should also
satisfy himself the there is no possible method known to Man -- there must
be no possible method known to Man -- of bringing the patient into awareness
of what has happened to him, keeping him in a state of obedience and
response while ignorant of its cause.
Using criminals and prisoners, the psychopolitical operative in training
should then experiment with duress in the absence of privation,
administering electric shocks, beatings, and terror- inducing tactics,
accompanied by the same mechanisms as those employed in hypnotism, and watch
the conduct of the person when no longer under duress.
The operative in training should carefully remark those who show a tendency
to protest, so that he may recognize possible recovery of memory of the
commands implanted. Purely for his own education, he should then satisfy
himself as to the efficacy of brain surgery in disabling the non-responsive
prisoner.
The boldness of the psychopolitical operative can be increased markedly by
permitting persons who have been given pain-drug hypnosis and who have
demonstrated symptoms of rebelling or recalling into society to observe how
the label of "insanity" dis- credits and discounts the statements of the
person. Exercises in bringing about insanity seizures at will, simply by
demonstrating a signal to persons upon whom pain-drug hypnosis has been
used, and exercises in making the seizures come about through talking to
certain persons in certain places and times should also be used.
Brain surgery, as developed in Russia, should also be practiced by the
psychopolitical operative in training, to give him full confidence in (1)
the crudeness with which it can be done, (2) the certainty of erasure of the
stimulus-response mechanism itself, (3) the production of imbecility,
idiocy, and dis-coordination on the part of the patient, and (4) the small
amount of comment which casualties in brain surgery occasion.
Exercises in sexual attack on patients should be practiced by the
psychopolitical operative to demonstrate the inability of the patient under
pain-drug hypnosis to recall the attack, while indoctrinating a lust for
further sexual activity on the part of the patient. Sex, in all animals, is
a powerful motivator, and is no less so in the animal Man, and the
occasioning of sexual liaison between females of a target family and
indicated males, under the control of the psychopolitical operative, must be
demonstrated to be possible with complete security for the psychopolitical
operative, thus giving into his hands an excellent weapon for the breaking
down of familial relations and consequent public dis- graces for the
psychopolitical target.
Just as a dog can be trained, so can a man be trained. Just as a horse can
be trained, so can a man be trained. Sexual lust, masochism, and any other
desirable perversion can be induced by pain-drug hypnosis and the benefit of
Psychopolitics.
The changes of loyalties, allegiances, and sources of command can be
occasioned easily by psychopolitical technologies, and these should be
practiced and understood by the psychopolitical operative before he begins
to tamper with psychopolitical targets of magnitude.
The actual simplicity of the subject of pain-drug hypnosis, the use of
electric shock, drugs, insanity-producing injections, and other materials,
should be masked entirely by technical nomen- clature, by the protest of
benefit to the patient, by an authori- tarian pose and position, and by
carefully cultivating govern- mental positions in the country to be
conquered.
Although the psychopolitical operative working in universities where he can
direct the curricula of psychology classes is often tempted to teach some of
the principles of Psychopolitics to the susceptible students in the
psychology classes, he must be thor- oughly enjoined to limit his
information in psychology classes to the transmittal of the tenets of
Communism under the guise of psychology, and must limit his activities in
bringing about a state of mind on the part of the students where they will
accept Com- munist tenets as those of their own action and as modern
scientific principles. the psychopolitical operative must not, at any time,
educate students fully in stimulus-response mechanisms, and must not impart
to them, save those who will become his fellow- workers, the exact
principles of Psychopolitics. It is not necessary to do so, and it is
dangerous.
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CHAPTER VIII
DEGRADATION, SHOCK AND ENDURANCE
Degradation and conquest are companions.
In order to be conquered, a nation must be degraded, either by acts of war,
by being overrun, by being forced into humiliat- ing treaties of peace, of
by the treatment of her populace under the armies of the conqueror. However,
degradation can be accomplished much more insidiously and much more
effectively by consistent and continual defamation.
Defamation is the best and foremost weapon of Psychopolitics on the broad
field. Continual and constant degradation of national leaders, national
institutions, national practices, and national heroes must be systematically
carried out, but this is the chief function of Communist Party Members, in
general, not the psychopolitician.
The realm of defamation and degradation, of the psycho- politician, is Man
himself. By attacking the character and morals of Man himself, and by
bringing about, through contamination of youth, a general degraded feeling,
command of the populace is facilitated to a very marked degree.
There is a curve of degradation which leads downward to a point where the
endurance of an individual is almost at end, and any sudden action toward
him will place him in a state of shock. Similarly, a soldier held prisoner
can be abused, denied, defamed, and degraded until the slightest motion on
the part of his captors will cause him to flinch. Similarly, the slightest
word on the part of his captors will cause him to obey, or vary his
loyalties and beliefs. Given sufficient degradation, a prisoner can be
caused to murder his fellow countrymen in the same stockade. Experiments on
German prisoners have lately demonstrated that only after seventy days of
filthy food, little sleep, and nearly untenable quarters, that the least
motion toward the prisoner would bring about a state of shock beyond his
endurance threshold, and would cause him to him to hypnotically receive any-
thing said to him. Thus, it is possible, in an entire stockade of prisoners,
to the number of thousands, to bring about a state of complete servile
obedience, and without the labour of personally addressing each one, to
pervert their loyalties and implant in them adequate commands to insure
their future conduct, even when released to their own people.
By lowering the endurance of a person, a group, or nation, and by constant
degradation and defamation, it is possible to induce, thus, a state of shock
which will receive adequately any command given.
The first thing to be degraded in any nation is the state of Man, himself.
Nations which have high ethical tone are difficult to conquer. Their
loyalties are hard to shake, their allegiance to their leaders is fanatical,
and what they usually call their "spiritual integrity" cannot be violated by
duress. It is not effici- end to attack a nation in such a frame of mind. It
is the basic purpose of Psychopolitics to reduce that state of mind to a
point where it can be ordered and enslaved. Thus, the first target is Man,
himself. He can be degraded from a spiritual being to an animalistic
reaction pattern. He must think of himself as an animal, capable only of
animalistic reactions. He must no longer think of himself, or his fellows,
as capable of "spiritual endurance", or nobility.
The best approach toward degradation in its stages is the propaganda of
"scientific approach" to Man. Man must be consistently demonstrated to be a
mechanism without individu- ality, and it must be educated into a populace
under attack that Man's individualistic reaction are the product of mental
derangement. The populace must be bought into the belief that every
individual within it who rebels in any way, shape, form against efforts and
activities to enslave the whole, must be considered to be a deranged person
whose eccentricities are neurotic or insane, and who must have at once the
treatment of a psychopolitician.
An optimum condition in such a programme of degradation would address itself
to the military forces of the nation, and bring them rapidly away from any
other belief than that the disobedient one must be subjected to "mental
treatment." An enslavement of a population can fail only if these rebellious
individuals are left to exert their individual influences upon their fellow
citizens, sparking them into rebellion, calling into account their
nobilities and freedoms. Unless these restless individuals are stamped out
and given into the hands of psychopolitical opera- tives early in the
conquest, there will be nothing but trouble as the conquest continues.
The officials of the government, student, readers, partakers of
entertainment, must all be indoctrinated, by whatever means, into the
complete belief that the restless, the ambitious, the natural leaders, are
suffering from environmental maladjust- ments which can only be healed by
recourse to psychopolitical operatives in the guise of mental healers.
By thus degrading the general belief in the statues of Man, it is relatively
simple, with co-operation from the economic salients being driven into the
country, to driven citizens apart, one from another, to bring about a
question of the wisdom of their own government, and to cause them to
actively beg for enslavement.
The educational programmes of Psychopolitics must, at every hand, seek out
the levels of youth who will become the leaders in the country's future, and
educate them into the belief of the animalistic nature of Man. must be made
fashionable. They must taught, above all things, that the salvation of Man
is to be found only by his adjusting thoroughly to this environ- ment.
This educational programme in the field of Psychopolitics can best be
followed by bringing about a compulsory training in some subject such as
psychology or other mental practice, and ascertaining that each broad
programme of psychopolitical training be supervised by a psychiatrist who is
a trained psycho- political operative.
As it seems in foreign nations that the church is the most en- nobling
influence, each and every branch and activity of each and every church,
must, one way or other, be discredited. Religion must become unfashionable
by demonstrating broadly, through psychopolitical indoctrination, that the
soul is non- existent, and that Man is an animal. The lying mechanisms of
Christianity lead men to foolishly brave deeds. By teaching them that there
is a life hereafter, the liability of courageous acts, while living, is thus
lessened. The liability of any act must be markedly increased if a populace
is to be obedient. Thus, there must be no standing belief in the church, and
the power of the church must be denied at every hand.
The psychopolitical operative, in his programme of degrada- tion, should at
all times bring into question and family which is deeply religious, and,
should any neurosis or insanity be occa- sioned in that family, blame and
hold responsible their religious connections for the neurotic or psychotic
condition. Religion must by made synonymous with neurosis and psychosis.
People who are deeply religious would be less and less held responsible for
their own sanity, and should more and more be relegated to the ministrations
of psychopolitical operatives.
By perverting the institutions of a nation and bringing about a general
degradation, by interfering with the economics of a nation to the degree
that privation and depression come about, only minor shocks will be
necessary to produce, on the populace as a whole, an obedient reaction or an
hysteria. Thus, the mere threat of war, the mere threat of aviation
bombings, could cause the population to sue instantly for peace. It is a
long and arduous road for the psychopolitical operative to achieve this
state of mind on the part of a whole nation, but no more than twenty or
thirty years should be necessary in the entire programme<;> having to hand,
as we do, weapons with which to accomplish the goal.
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CHAPTER IX
THE ORGANIZATION OF MENTAL HEALTH CAMPAIGNS
Psychopolitical operatives should at all times be alert to the opportunity
to organize "for the betterment of the community" mental health clubs or
groups. By thus inviting the co-operation of the population as a whole in
mental health programmes, the terrors of mental aberration can be
disseminated throughout the populace. Furthermore, each one of these mental
health groups, properly guided, can bring, at last, legislative pressure
against the government to secure adequately the position of the psycho-
political operative, and to obtain for him government grants and facilities,
thus bringing a government to finance its own downfall.
Mental health organizations must carefully delete from their ranks anyone
actually proficient in the handling or treatment of mental health. Thus must
be excluded priests, ministers, actually trained psychoanalysts, good
hypnotists, or trained Dianeticists. These, with some cognizance on the
subject of mental aberration and its treatment, and with some experience in
observing the mentally deranged, if allowed frequency within institutions,
and if permitted to receive literature, would, sooner or later, become
suspicious of the activities engaged upon by the psychopolitical operative.
These must be defamed and excluded as "untrained", "unskilful", "quacks", or
"perpetrators of hoaxes".
No mental health movement with actual goals of mental therapy should be
continued in existence in any nation. For instance, the use of Chinese
acupuncture in the treatment of mental and physical derangement must, in
China, be stamped out and discredited thoroughly, as it has some efficacy,
and, more importantly, its practitioners understand, through long with it,
many of the principles of actual mental health and aberration.
In the field of mental health, the psychopolitician *must* occupy, and
continue to occupy, through various arguments, the authoritative position on
the subject. There is always the danger that problems of mental health may
be resolved by some individual or group, which might then derange the
programme of the psychopolitical operative in his mental health clubs. City
officials, socialites, and other unknowing individuals, on the subject of
mental health, should be invited to full co-operation in the activity of
mental health groups. But the entirety of this activity should be to finance
better facilities for the psycho-political practitioner. To these groups, it
must be continually stressed that the entire subject of mental illness is so
complex that none of them, certainly, could understand any part of it. Thus,
the club should be kept on a social and financial level.
Where groups interested in the health of the community have already been
formed, they should be infiltrated and taken over, and if this is not
possible, they should be discredited and debarred, and the officialdom of
the area should be invited to stamp them out as dangerous.
When an hostile group dedicated to mental health is discov- ered, the
psychopolitician should have recourse to the mechanisms of peyote,
mescaline, and later drugs which cause temporary insanity. He should send
persons, preferably those well under his control, into the mental health
group, and invite the group, whether Christian Science or Dianetics or other
practice, to demonstrate its abilities upon this new person. These, in
demon- strating their abilities, will usually act with enthusiasm. Midway in
the course of their treatment, a quiet injection of peyote, mes- caline, or
other drug, or an electric shock, will produce the symp- toms of insanity in
the patient which has been sent to the target group. The patient thus
demonstrating momentary insanity should immediately be reported to the
police and taken away to some area of incarceration managed by
psychopolitical operatives, and so placed out of sight. Officialdom will
thus come into a belief that this group drives individuals insane by their
practices, and the practices of the group will then be despised and
prohibited by law.
The values of a widespread mental health organization are manifest when one
realizes that any government can be forced to provide facilities for
psychopolitical operatives in the form of psychiatric wards in all
hospitals, in national institutions totally in the hands of psychopolitical
operatives, and in the establishment of clinics where youth can be contacted
and arranged more seemingly to the purposes of Psychopolitics.
Such groups form a political force, which can then legalize any law or
authority desired for the psychopolitical operative.
The securing of authority over such mental health organiza- tions is done
mainly by appeal to education. A psychopolitical operative should make sure
the those psychiatrists he controls, those psychologists whom he has under
orders, have been trained for an excessively long period of time. The longer
the training period which can be required, the safer the psycho- political
programme, since no new group of practitioners can arise to disclose and
dismay psychopolitical programmes. Further- more, the groups themselves
cannot hope to obtain any full knowledge of the subject, not having behind
them many, many years of intensive training.
Vienna has been carefully maintained as the home of Psycho- politics, since
it was the home of Psychoanalysis. Although our activities have long long
since dispersed any of the gains made by Freudian groups, and have taken
over these groups, the proximity of Vienna to Russia, where Psychopolitics
is operating abroad, and the necessity "for further study" by
psychopolitical operatives in the birthplace of Psychoanalysis, makes
periodic contacts with headquarters possible. Thus, the word
"psycho-analysis" must be stressed at all times, and must be pretended to be
a thorough part of the psychiatrist's training.
Psychoanalysis has the very valuable possession of a vocabulary, and a
workability which is sufficiently poor to avoid recovery of psychopolitical
implantations. It can be made fashionable throughout mental health
organizations, and by learning its patter, and by believing they see some of
it phenomena, the members of mental health groups can believe themselves
conversant with mental health. Because its stress is sex, it is, itself, an
adequate defamation of character, and serves the purposes of degradation
well. Thus, in organizing mental health groups, the literature furnished
such groups should be psychopolitical in nature.
If a group of persons interested in suppressing juvenile delinquency, in
caring for the insane, and the promotion of psycho- political operative and
their actions can be formed in every major city of a country under conquest,
the success of a psycho- political programme is assured, since these groups
seem to represent a large segment of the population. By releasing continued
propaganda on the subject of dope addiction, homosexuality, and depraved
conduct on the part of the young, even the judges of a country can become
suborned into reacting violently against the youth of the country, thus
misaligning and aligning the support of youth.
The communication lines of psychopolitics, if such mental health
organizations can be well established, can thus run from its most prominent
citizens to its government. It is not too much to hope that the influence of
such groups could bring about a psychiatric ward in every hospital in the
land, and psychiatrists in every company and regiment of the nation's army,
and whole government institutions manned entirely by psychopolitical opera-
tives, into which ailing government officials could be placed, to the
advantage of the psychopolitician.
If a psychiatric ward could be established in every hospital in every city
in a nation, it is certain that, at one time or another, every prominent
citizen of that nation could come under the ministrations of psychopolitical
operatives or their dupes.
The validation of psychiatric position in the armed forces and
security-minded institutions of the nation under conquest could bring about
a flow and fund of information unlike any other programme which could be
conceived. If every pilot who flies a new plane could come under the
questioning of a psycho- political operative, if the compiler of every plan
of military action could thus come under the review of psychopolitical
operatives, the simplicity with which information can be extracted by the
use of certain drugs, without the after-knowledge of the soldier, would
entirely cripple any overt action toward Communism. If the nation could be
educated into turning over to psychopolitical operatives every recalcitrant
or rebellious soldier, it would lose its best fighters. Thus, the advantage
of mental health organizations can be seen, for these, by exerting an
apparent public pressure against the government, can achieve these ends and
goals.
The financing of a psychopolitical operation is difficult unless it is done
by the citizens and government. Although vast sums of money can be obtained
from private patients, and from relatives who wish persons put away, it is,
nevertheless, difficult to obtain millions, unless the government itself is
co-operating. The co- operation of the government to obtain these vast sums
of money is best obtained by the organization of mental health groups
composed of leading citizens, and who bring their lobbying abilities to bear
against the nation's government. Thus can be financed many programmes, which
might otherwise have to be laid aside by the psychopolitician.
The psychopolitical operative should bend consistent and con- tinual effort
toward forming and continuing in action innumer- able mental health groups.
The psychopolitical operative should also spare no expense in smashing out
of existence, by whatever means, any actual healing group, such as that of
acupuncture, in China; such Christian Science and Dianetics, in the United
States; such as Catholicism in Italy and Spain; and the practical psychology
groups of England.
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CHAPTER X
CONDUCT UNDER FIRE
The psychopolitician may well find himself under attack as an individual or
a member of a group. He may be attacked as a Communist, through some leak in
the organization, he may be attacked for malpractice. He may be attacked by
the families of people whom he has injured. In all cases his conduct of the
situation should be calm and aloof. He should have behind him the authority
of many years of training, and he should have participated fully in the
building of defences in the field of insanity which give him the only
statement as to the conditions of the mind.
If he has not done his work well, hostile feeling groups may expose an
individual psychopolitician. These may call into question the efficacy of
psychiatric treatment such as shock, drugs, and brain surgery. Therefore,
the psychopolitical operative must have to hand innumerable documents which
assert enormously encouraging figures on the subject of recovery by reason
of shock, brain surgery, drugs, and general treatment. Not one of these
cases cited need be real, but they should be documented and printed in such
a fashion as to form excellent court evidence.
When his allegiance is attacked, the psychopolitical operative should
explain his connection with Vienna on the grounds that Vienna is the place
of study for all important matters of the mind.
More importantly, he should rule into scorn, by reason of his authority, the
sanity of the person attacking him, and if the psychopolitical archives of
the country are adequate many de- famatory data can be unearthed and
presented as a rebuttal.
Should anyone attempt to expose psychotherapy as a psycho- political
activity, the best defence is calling into question the sanity of the
attacker. The next best defence is authority. The next best defence is a
validation of psychiatric practices in terms of long and aggressive figures.
The next best defence in the actual removal of the attacker by giving him,
or them, treatment suffici- ent to bring about a period of insanity for the
duration of the trial. This, more than anything else, would discredit them,
but it is dangerous to practise this, in the extreme.
Psychopolitics should avoid murder and violence, unless it is done in the
safety of the institution, on persons who have been proven to be insane.
Where institution deaths appear to be unnecessary, or to rise in
"unreasonable number", political capital might be made of this by city
officials or legislature. If the psychopolitical operative has, himself, or
if his group has done a thorough job, defamatory data concerning the person,
or con- nections, of the would-be attacker should be on file, should be
documented, and should be used in such a way as to discourage the inquiry.
After a period of indoctrination, a country will expect insanity to be met
with psychopolitical violence. Psychopolitical activities should become the
only recognized treatment for insanity. In- deed, this can be extended to
such a length that it could be made illegal for electric shock and brain
surgery to be omitted in the treatment of a patient.
In order to defend psychopolitical activities, a great complexity should be
made of psychiatric, psychoanalytical, and psycho- logical technology. Any
hearing should be burdened by termin- ology too difficult to be transcribed
easily. A great deal should be made out of such terms of schizophrenia,
paranoia, and other relatively undefinable states.
Psychopolitical test need not necessary be in agreement, one to another,
where they are available to the public. Various types of insanity should be
characterized by difficult terms. The actual state should be made obscure,
but by this verbiage it can be built into the court or investigating mind
that a scientific approach exist and that is too complex for him to
understand. It is not to be imagined that a judge or a committee of
investigation should inquire too deeply into the subject of insanity, since
they, themselves, part of the indoctrinated masses, are already intimi-
dated if the psychopolitical activity has caused itself to be well-
documented in terms of horror in magazines.
In case of a hearing or trial, the terribleness of insanity itself, its
thread to the society, should be exaggerated until the court or committee
believes that the psychopolitical operative is vitally necessary in his post
and should not be harrassed for the activities of persons who are
irrational.
An immediate attack upon the sanity of the attacker before any possible
hearing can take place is the very best defence. It should become well-known
that "only the insane attack psychia- trists". The by-word should be built
into the society that paranoia is a condition "in which the individual
believes he is being attacked by Communists". It will be found that this
defence is effective.
Part of the effective defences should include the entire lack in the society
of any real psychotherapy. This must be systematically stamped out, since a
real psychotherapy might possibly uncover the results of psychopolitical
activities.
Jurisprudence, in a Capitalistic nation, is of such clumsiness that cases
are invariably tried in their newspapers. We have handled these things much
better in Russia, and have uniformly brought people to trial with full
confessions already arrived at (being implanted) before the trial took
place.
Should any whisper, or pamphlet, against psychopolitical activities be
published, it should be laughed into scorn, branded an immediate hoax, and
its perpetrator or publisher should be, at the first opportunity, branded as
insane, and by the use of drugs the insanity should be confirmed.
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CHAPTER XI
THE USE OF PSYCHOPOLITICS IN SPREADING COMMUNISM
Reactionary nations are of such a composition that they attack a word
without understanding of it. As the conquest of a nation by Communism
depends upon imbuing its population with Com- munistic tenets, it is not
necessary that the term "Communism" be applied at first to the educative
measures employed.
As an example, in the United States we have been able to alter the works of
William James, and others, into a more acceptable pattern, and to place the
tenets of Karl Marx, Pavlov, Lamarck, and the data of Dialectic Materialism
into the textbooks of psychology, to such a degree that anyone thoroughly
studying psychology becomes at once a candidate to accept the reasonable-
ness of Communism.
As every chair of psychology in the United States is occupied by persons in
our connection, or who can be influenced by persons in our connection, the
consistent employment of such texts is guaranteed. They are given the
authoritative ring, and they are carefully taught.
Constant pressure in the legislatures of the United States can bring about
legislation to the effect that every student attending a high school or
university must have classes in psychology.
Educating broadly the educated strata of the populace into the tenets of
Communism is thus rendered relatively easy, and when the choice is given
them whether to continue in a Capital- istic or a Communist condition, they
will see, suddenly, in Com- munism, much more reasonability than in
Capitalism, which will now be of our own definition.
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CHAPTER XII
VIOLENT REMEDIES
As populaces, in general, understand that a violence is neces- sary in the
handling of the insane, violent remedies seem to be reasonable. Starting
from a relatively low level of violence, such as strait-jackets and other
restraints, it is relatively easy to en- croach upon the public diffidence
for violence by adding more and more cruelty into the treatment of the
insane.
By increasing the brutality of "treatment", the public expec- tance of such
treatment will be assisted, and the protest of the individual to whom the
treatment is given is impossible, since immediately after the treatment he
is incapable. The family of the individual under treatment is suspect for
having in its midst, already, an insane person. The family's protest should
be dis- credited.
The more violent the treatment, the more command value the psychopolitical
operative will accumulate. Brain operations should become standard and
commonplace. While the figures of actual deaths should be repressed wherever
possible, nevertheless, it is of no great concern the the psychopolitical
operative that many deaths do occur.
Gradually, the public should be educated into electric shock, first by
believing that it is very therapeutic, then by believing that it is
quieting, then by being informed that electric shock usually injures the
spine and teeth, and finally, that it very often kills or at least breaks
the spine and removes, violently, the teeth of the patient. It is very
doubtful if anyone from the lay levels of the public could tolerate the
observation of a single electric shock treatment. Certainly they could not
tolerate witnessing a pre- frontal lobotomy of a trans-orbital leucotomy.
However, they should be brought up to a level where this is possible, where
it is the expected treatment, and where the details, of the treatment itself
can be made known, thus to the increase of psychopolitical prestige.
The more violent the treatment, the more hopeless insanity will seem to be.
The society should be worked up to the level where every recalcitrant young
man can be brought into court and assigned to a psychopolitical operative,
be given electric shocks, and reduced into unimaginative docility for the
remainder of his days.
By continuous and increasing advertising of the violence of treatment, the
public will at last come to tolerate the creation of zombie conditions to
such a degree that they will probably employ zombies, if given to them. Thus
a large strata of the society, particularly that which was rebellious, can
be reduced to the service of the psychopolitician.
By various means, a public must be convinced, at least, that insanity can
only be met by shock, torture, deprivation, defama- tion, discreditation,
violence, maiming, death, punishment in all its forms. The society, at the
same time, must be educated into the belief of increasing insanity within
its ranks. This creates an emergency, and places the psychopolitician in a
saviour role, and places him, at length, in charge of the society.
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CHAPTER XIII
THE RECRUITING OF PSYCHOPOLITICAL DUPES
The psychopolitical dupe is a well-trained individual who serves in complete
obedience the psychopolitical operative.
In that nearly all persons in training are expected to undergo a certain
amount of treatment in any field of the mind, it is not too difficult to
persuade persons in the field of mental healing to subject themselves to
mild or minor drugs or shock. If this can be done, a psychological dupe on
the basis of pain-drug hypnosis can immediately result.
Recruitment into the ranks of "mental healing" can best be done by carefully
bringing to it only those healing students who are, to some slight degree,
already depraved, or who have been "treated" by psychopolitical operatives.
Recruitment is effected by making the field of mental healing very
attractive, financially<,> and sexually.
The amount of promiscuity which can be induced in mental patients can work
definitely to the advantage of the psycho- political recruiting agent. The
dupe can thus be induced into many lurid sexual contacts, and these,
properly witnessed, can thereafter be used as blackmail material to assist
any failure of pain-drug hypnosis in causing him to execute orders.
The promise of unlimited sexual opportunities, the promise of complete
dominion over the bodies and minds of helpless patients, the promise of
complete lawlessness without detection, can thus attract to "mental healing"
many desirable recruits who will willingly fall in line with psychopolitical
activities.
In that the psychopolitician has under his control the insane of that
nation, most of them have criminal tendencies, and as he can, as his
movement goes forward, recruit for his ranks the criminals themselves, he
has unlimited numbers of human beings to employ on whatever project he may
see fit. In that the insane will execute destructive projects without
question, if given the proper amount of punishment and implantation, the
degradation of the country's youth, the defamation of its leaders, the
suborning of its courts becomes childishly easy.
The psychopolitician has the advantage of naming as a delu- sory symptom any
attempt on the part of a patient to expose commands.
The psychopolitician should carefully adhere to institutions and should
eschew private practice wherever possible, since this gives him the greatest
number of human beings to control the use of Communism. When he does act in
private practice, it should be only in contact with the families of the
wealthy and the officials of the country.
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CHAPTER XIV
THE SMASHING OF RELIGIOUS GROUPS
You must know that until recent times the complete subject of mental
derangement, whether so light as simple worry or so heavy as insanity, was
the sphere of activity of the church and only the church.
Traditionally in civilized nations and barbaric ones the priesthood alone
had in complete charge the mental condition of the citizen. As a matter of
great concern to the psychopolitician this tendency still exists in every
public in the Western World and scientific inroads into this sphere has
occurred only in official and never in public quarters.
The magnificent tool welded for us by Wundt would be as nothing if it were
not for official insistence in civilized countries that "scientific
practices" be applied to the problem of the mind. Without this official
insistence or even if it relapsed for a moment, the masses would grasp
stupidity for the priest, the minister, the clergy when mental condition
came in question. Today in Europe and America "scientific practices" in the
field of the mind would not last moments if not enforced entirely by
officialdom.
It must be carefully hidden that the incidence of insanity has increased
only since these "scientific practices" were applied. Great remarks must be
made of "the pace of modern living" and other myths as the cause of the
increased neurosis in the world. It is nothing to us what causes it if
anything does. It is everything to us that no evidence of any kind shall be
tolerated afoot to permit the public tendency toward the church its way. If
given their heads, if left to themselves to decide, independent of official-
dom, where they would place their deranged loved ones, the public would
choose religious sanatoriums and would avoid as if plagued places where
"scientific practices" prevail.
Given any slightest encouragement, public support would swing on an instant
all mental healing into the hands of the churches. And there are Churches
waiting to receive it, clever churches. That terrible monster the Roman
Catholic Church still dominates mental healing heavily throughout the
Christian world and their well schooled priests are always at work to turn
the public their way. In the field of pure healing the Church of Christ
Science of Boston, Massachusetts excells in commanding the public favour and
operates many sanatoriums. All these must be swept aside. They must be
ridiculed and defamed and every cure they advertise must be asserted as a
hoax. A full fifth of a psychopolitician's time should be devoted to
smashing these threats. Just as in Russia we had to destroy, after many many
years of the most arduous work, the Church, so we must destroy all faiths in
nations marked for conquest.
Insanity must be made to hound the footsteps of every priest and
practitioner. His best results must be turned to jibbering insanities no
matter what means we have to use.
You need not care what effect you have upon the public. The effect you care
about is the one upon officials. You must recruit every agency of the nation
marked for slaughter into a foaming hatred of religious healing. You must
suborne district attorneys and judges into an intense belief as fervent as
an ancient faith in God that Christian Science or any other religious
practice which might devote itself to mental healing is vicious, bad,
insanity-causing, publicly hated and intolerable.
You must suborne and recruit any medical healing organization into collusion
in this campaign. You must appeal to their avarice and even their humanity
to invite their cooperation in smashing all religious healing and thus, to
our end, care of the insane. You must see that such societies have only
qualified Communist-indoctrines as their advisers in this matter. For you
can use such societies. They are stupid and stampede easily. Their cloak and
degrees can be used quite well to mask any operation we care to have masked.
We must make them partners in our endeavour so that they will never be able
to crawl from beneath our thumb and discredit us.
We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any
and all Christian influences and we are succeeding. While we today seem to
be kind to the Christian remember we have yet to influence the "Christian
world" to our ends. When that is done we shall have an end of them
everywhere. You may see them here in Russia as trained apes. They do not
know their tether is long only until the apes in other lands have become
unwary.
You must work until "religion" is synonymous with "insanity". You must work
until the officials of city, county and state governments will not think
twice before they pounce upon religious group as public enemies.
Remember, all lands are governed by the few and only pretend to consult with
the many. It is no different in America. The petty official, the maker of
laws alike can be made to believe the worst. It is not necessary to convince
the masses. It is only necessary to work incessantly upon the official,
using personal defamations, wild lies, false evidences and constant
propaganda to make him fight for you against church or against any
practitioner.
Like the official the bonafide medical healer also believes the worst if it
can be shown to him as dangerous competition. And like the Christian, should
be seek to take from us any right we have gained, we shall finish him as
well.
We must be like the vine upon the tree. We use the tree to climb and then,
strangling it, grow into power on the nourishment of its flesh.
We must strike from our path any opposition. We must use for our tool any
authority that comes to hand. And then at last, the decades sped, we can
dispense with all authority save our own and triumph in the greater glory of
the Party.
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CHAPTER XV
PROPOSALS WHICH MUST BE AVOIDED
There are certain damaging movements which could interrupt a psychopolitical
conquest. These, coming from some quarters of the country, might gain
headway and should be spotted before they do, and stamped out.
Proposals may be made by large and powerful group in the country to return
the insane to the care of those who have handled mental healing for tribes
and populaces for centuries -- the priest. Any movement to place clerygymen
in charge of institutions should be fought on the grounds of incompetence
and the insanity brought about by religion. The most destructive thing which
could happen to a psychopolitical programme would be the investment of the
ministry with the care of the nation's insane.
If mental hospitals operated by religious group are in exist- ence, the must
be discredited and closed, no matter what the cost, for it might occur that
the actual figures of recovery in such institutions would become known, and
that the lack of recovery in general institutions might be compared to them,
and this might lead to a movement to place the clergy in charge of the
insane. Every argument must be advanced early, to overcome any possibility
of this ever occurring.
A country's law must carefully be made to avoid any rights of person to the
insane. Any suggested laws or Constitutional Amendments which make the
harming of the insane unlawful, should be fought to the extreme, on the
ground that only violent measures can succeed. If the law were to protect
the insane, as it normally does not, the entire psychopolitical programme
would very possibly collapse.
Any movements to increase or place under surveillance the orders required to
hospitalized the mentally ill should be discour- aged. This should be left
entirely in the hand of person well under the control of psychopolitical
operatives. It should be done with minimum formality, and no recovery of the
insane from an institution should be possible by any process of law. Thus,
any movement to add the legal steps of the processes of commit- ment and
release should be discourage on the ground of emer- gency. To obviate this,
the best action is to place a psychiatric and detention ward of the mentally
ill in every hospital in a land.
Any writing of a psychopolitical nature, accidentally disclosing themselves,
should prevented. All actual literature on the subject of insanity and its
treatment should be suppressed, first by actual security, and second by
complex verbiage which renders it incomprehensible. The actual figures of
recovery or death should never be announced in any papers. Any investigation
attempting to discover whether or not psychiatry or psychology has ever
cured anyone should immediately be discouraged and laughed to scorn, and
should mobilize at that point all psycho- political operatives. At first, it
should be ignored, but if this is not possible, the entire weight of all
psychopoliticians in the nation should be pressed into service. Any tactic
possible should be employed to prevent this from occurring. To rebut it,
technical appearing papers should exist as to the tremendous number of cures
effected by psychiatry and psychology, and whenever possible, percentages of
cures, no matter how fictitious, should be worked into legislative papers,
thus forming a background of "evidence" which would immediately rebut any
effort to actually discover anyone who had ever been helped by psychiatry or
psychology.
If the Communistic connections of a psychopolitician should become
disclosed, it should be attributed to his own carelessness, and he should,
himself, be immediately branded as eccentric within his own profession.
Authors of literature which seek to demonstrate the picture of a society
under complete mental control and duress should be helped toward infamy or
suicide to discredit their works.
Any literature liberalizing any healing practice should be immediately
fought and defeated. All healing practices should gravitate entirely to
authoritative levels, and no other opinions should be admitted, as these
might lead to exposure.
Movements to improve youth should be invaded and corrupted, as this might
interrupt campaigns to produce in youth delin- quency, addiction,
drunkenness, and sexual promiscuity.
Communist workers in the field of newspapers and radio should be protected
wherever possible by striking out of action, through Psychopolitics, any
persons consistently attacking them. These, in their turn, should be
persuaded to give every possible publicity to the benefits of
psychopolitical activities under the heading of "science".
No healing group devoted to the mind must be allowed to exist within the
borders of Russia or its satellites. Only well-vouched- for psychopolitical
operatives can be continued in their practice, and this only for the benefit
of the government or against enemy prisoners.
Any effort to exclude psychiatrists or psychologist from the armed services
must be fought.
Any inquest into the "suicide" or sudden mental derangement of any political
leader in a nation must be conducted only by psychopolitical operatives or
their dupes, whether Psychopolitics is responsible or not.
Death and violence against persons attacking Communism in a nation should be
eschewed as forbidden. Violent activity against such person might bring
about their martyrdom. Defamation, and the accusation of insanity, alone
should be employed, and they should be brought at last under the
ministrations of psychopolitical operatives, such as psychiatrists and
controlled psychologists.
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CHAPTER XVI
IN SUMMARY
In this time of unlimited weapons, and in national antagonisms where atomic
war with Capitalistic powers is possible, Psycho- politics must act
efficiently as never before.
Any and all programmes of Psychopolitics must be increased to aid and abet
the activities of other Communist agents through- out the nation in
question.
The failure of Psychopolitics might well bring about the atomic bombing of
the Motherland.
If Psychopolitics succeeded in its mission throughout the Capitalistic
nations of the world, there will never be an atomic war, for Russia will
have subjugated all of her enemies.
Communism has already spread across one-sixth of the inhabited world.
Marxist Doctrines have already penetrated the remainder. An extension of the
Communist social order is everywhere victorious. The spread of Communism has
never been by force of battle, but by conquest of the mind. In
Psychopolitics we have refined this conquest to its last degree.
The psychopolitical operative must succeed, for his success means a world of
Peace. His failure might well mean the destruction of the civilized portions
of Earth by atomic power in the hands of Capitalistic madmen.
The end thoroughly justifies the means. The degradation of populaces is less
inhuman than their destruction by atomic fission, for to an animal who lives
only once, and life is sweeter than death.
The end of war is the control of a conquered people. If a people can be
conquered in the absence of war, the end of war will have been achieved
without the destruction of war. A worthy goal.
The psychopolitician has his reward in the nearly unlimited control of
populaces, in the uninhibited exercise of passion, and the glory of
Communist conquest over the stupidity of the enemies of the People.
The End