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==Budenz on fronts==

==Budenz on fronts==

Soviet defector [[Louis Budenz]] describes how fronts then use [[communist publications]] to shape and influence public opinion.

Soviet defector [[Louis Budenz]] describes how fronts then use [[List of Communist publications|communist publications]] to shape and influence public opinion.

{{Cquote [I]t is the Communists' hidden influence on American [public] opinion that has been most devastating. I can speak with full authority on that matter, having been deeply engaged in directing and executing [[Moscow]]'s orders for molding American thinking.  Repeatedly...orders went out to form this committee and that, to set up groups of citizens with patriotic names and allegedly patriotic objectives. Then these committees, headed by steeled Communists from the "branches," would roll up huge numbers of letters and telegrams from all sections of the land - with a view to influencing Congressmen and securing the passage or defeat of some particular piece of legislation.

{{Cquote|[I]t is the Communists' hidden influence on American [public] opinion that has been most devastating. I can speak with full authority on that matter, having been deeply engaged in directing and executing [[Moscow]]'s orders for molding American thinking.  Repeatedly...orders went out to form this committee and that, to set up groups of citizens with patriotic names and allegedly patriotic objectives. Then these committees, headed by steeled Communists from the "branches," would roll up huge numbers of letters and telegrams from all sections of the land - with a view to influencing Congressmen and securing the passage or defeat of some particular piece of legislation.

Thousands of loyal Americans, in the name of "civil liberties," "rights," "fascist abuse of labor," are thus inveigled by the Communists into support of moves and measures which build up the enemies of all liberty. And the end is not yet; even now, as I hope to make clear, new committees under new names are pounding on the doors of Congress and the courts. Each of their insistent demands aids the Communists in undermining the nation.  

Thousands of loyal Americans, in the name of "civil liberties," "rights," "fascist abuse of labor," are thus inveigled by the Communists into support of moves and measures which build up the enemies of all liberty. And the end is not yet; even now, as I hope to make clear, new committees under new names are pounding on the doors of Congress and the courts. Each of their insistent demands aids the Communists in undermining the nation.  

The energy that marks such campaigning is engendered by the ''[[Daily Worker]]'' through devices which again arouse the laughter of the unthinking. Anyone who picks up that paper today will be arrested by the foul abuse which characterizes its columns and which is hurled at all those with whom the Reds disagree. So extreme are these vilifications that a casual reader will find it hard to believe that anything could be gained by such foulness, which must offend a great many people. Nevertheless much is gained by it. Through this excessive appeal to hatred, the Red newspaper whips up its readers (who live on a philosophy of [[hate]]) to induce others to get busy. In working on others, the faithful ''Daily Worker'' readers do not use the same phrases, as a rule; that would be ineffective. But the spleen developed in them by what they have read is transmitted in action to those they meet in shop, neighborhood or community. The device is one that wins - if used in a steeled army of agents for a foreign power, and among a trusting population such as ours.<ref>Louis F. Budenz, ''Men Without Faces'', Harper & Brothers, 1950, pp. 25-26. (pp. 14-15 pdf)</ref>}}

The energy that marks such campaigning is engendered by the ''[[Daily Worker]]'' through devices which again arouse the laughter of the unthinking. Anyone who picks up that paper today will be arrested by the foul abuse which characterizes its columns and which is hurled at all those with whom the Reds disagree. So extreme are these vilifications that a casual reader will find it hard to believe that anything could be gained by such foulness, which must offend a great many people. Nevertheless much is gained by it. Through this excessive appeal to hatred, the Red newspaper whips up its readers (who live on a philosophy of [[hate]]) to induce others to get busy. In working on others, the faithful ''Daily Worker'' readers do not use the same phrases, as a rule; that would be ineffective. But the spleen developed in them by what they have read is transmitted in action to those they meet in shop, neighborhood or community. The device is one that wins - if used in a steeled army of agents for a foreign power, and among a trusting population such as ours.<ref>Louis F. Budenz, ''Men Without Faces'', Harper & Brothers, 1950, pp. 25-26. ([http://www.americandeception.com/index.php?action=downloadpdf&photo=//PDFsml_AD/Men_Without_Faces-Louis_Francis_Budenz-1950-315pgs-POL.sml.pdf&id=238 pp. 14-15 pdf])</ref>}}

 

 

 

==See also==

==See also==