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Editorial Til (lAIUm LAN! JOURNAL AND DIXIE FARM NEWS Published at Charlotte, North Carolina B. x. Stalls, Editor and Publisher W. M. Witter. Associate Editor •Entered as second-class mail matter September II, 1981. at the Post Office at Charlotte, N. C., under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879. ___ Oldest Bona Fide AFL Newspaper in North Carolina, consistently Serving the American Federation of Labor and its members since it was founded. May 12, 1931. Approved by the American Federat on of Labor in 1931. _ Endorsed by Charlotte Typographical Union, Number 338, An Af fliste of Charlotte Central Labor Union and the North Carolina Fed eration of Labor. ______ News Services: American Federation of Labor. U. S. and North Carolina Departments of Labor, and Southern Labor Press Associa tion. _ _ MEMBER SOUTHERN LABOR PRESS ASSOCIATION “LET THE SUNLIGHT OF A FREE PRESS SHINE IN DARK PLACES’* SOUTHERN LABOR PRESS ASSOCIATION Article Exposes Soviet Mind Control In Denying Russians Voice b Affairs By GEORGE 8. COUNTS Teacher* College, Columbia * University Since the October revolution of 917 the Russian Bolsheviks have developed the most comprehen sive and far-reaching system of mind control known to history. They have been able to surpass /arlier despotisms in this respect because they have had at their disposal all of the agencies for the molding ‘ of the mind that modern Science and technology lave created. They co-ordinate and employ these agencies—the school, the press, the radio, and 4he moving picture, the automo bile, the airplane, and the ma chine gun, science, literature, and art—with utter ruthlessness and singleness of purpose. The key to the understanding of this Bystem of mind control is the All-Union Communist Party, or the Party of Lenin and Stalin, with is 6 million members its central committee of 72, its politburo of 14, and its complex and far-flung apparatus. Here also is the real key to that “un derstanding” of the Soviet Union which so many people are asking for today. In fact the party, and act the government, is the Soviet state. The Party of Lenin and StaLn of course is not a political party at all in the sense in which the term is used in democratic states. It rules neither on the author ity nor with consent of the peo ple. Like its predecessor, the em pire, it can be dislodged only by violent revolution. In general structure and mode of operation it is a kind of politics* army. Following with amazing precision the plan for a revolutionary or ganization outlined by Paul Pas tel a Russian revolutionist of the early nineteenth century, it has three levels or circles of mem bership: it has its commissioned and noncommissioned officers, its high command. The duty of the soldiers and officers is to carry out the orders of the high com mand. The latter consists of the 14 members of the politburo and 72 members of the central com mittee. I I t i I I I [ In Lenin’s time the operation of the party was supposed to pro ceed under the principle of “dem ocratic centralism.’’ According to this principle all policies would be fully discussed by the rank and file in the thousands of cells which constitute the base of the organisation. Thereafter dele gates would be chosen presum ably to represent the members at regularly called party con gresses and the policies adopted would be binding on the entire membership. Under Stalin this entire process has been abandon ed, and even reversed. The last congress convened in the spring of 1939. And if another congress should be called in the near fu ture, as promised, one may be, certain that every delegate will be carefully picked by the leader ship and will support without qualification the basic policies of Stalin and the politburo. Under this system of control there can be no public discussion of grand policy either foreign or domestic. Such policy is discuss ed and formulated by the party high command, and is then com monly given to the world in the form of a resolution by the cen tral committee. It is thereafter the function of the other mem bers of this political army to carry the policy to the people, to explain and argue, to persuade and cajole, to secure the adoption of resolutions of approval, and to prevent the emergence of any kind of organized opposition. All branches of the cultural appara tus are made to serve the same purpose. 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