A. Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial. Destroy their ruggedness.

B. Get control of all means of publicity and thereby:

1. Get people’s minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and other trivialities.

2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.

3. Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and obloquy.

4. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.

5. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit and produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.

6. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders, and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.

7. By specious argument cause the breakdown of the old moral virtues, honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.

C. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscating them and leaving the populace helpless.

  • olgas_husband
    221·
    1 year ago

    Communists Commandments

    1. Hate the Lord our God
    2. Curse our God and Lord
    3. Despise the Lord’s day
    4. Despise father and mother
    5. Kill
    6. impurity
    7. Steal
    8. Lie
    9. Covet neighbor’s wife
    10. Prepare Universal Revolution.

    Anauê, brazilian fascist magazine from 1936

    amazing how reactionaries lacks of creativity and always do something like the 10 commandments with a bunch of bs.

  • fire86743English
    211·
    1 year ago

    Literally every one of these is done by capitalists and capitalist governments every single day.

  • RedClouds
    141·
    1 year ago

    Oh shit, I guess I missed that chapter in the manifesto. Got some catching up to do.

    /s for good measure

  • Anarcho-BolshevikEnglish
    141·
    1 year ago

    ‘At first glance, anyone familiar with the mad ravings of the “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion” or the hoax pamphlet, Brainwashing, a Synthesis of the Russian Text Book on Psychopolitics, would recognize the same motif and the same style of writing. Unfortunately, most of the people who are misled by this type of propaganda have neither the time nor the facilities to do research on such matters, even if they possessed the capability.’

    — Morris Kominsky, 1970

  • HaSch
    131·
    1 year ago

    How do you focus someone’s attention on athleticism and destroy their ruggedness at the same time