Progressive Consolidation of Power

With little difference between the 1930s platforms of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and today’s Democrat Party, the latter can be expected to continue the overall strategy below. The Democrats now refer to themselves as Progressives.

Bernhard Thuersam

Progressive Consolidation of Power:

“When once the communists have come to power…the next step is to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. Lenin defined this as “the rule – unrestricted by law and based on force – of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie, a rule enjoying the sympathy and support of the laboring and exploited masses.”

But since the Communist Party considers itself the executive of the proletariat, this rule is exercised in practice by the Communist Party.

The dictatorship of the proletariat is accompanied by a monopoly of the means of communication by the Communist Party. Every medium of mass communication is taken over. Every newspaper is a communist newspaper. Every radio station, every television channel, every book, every magazine, every school class is completely controlled by the Communist Party.

Under the dictatorship of the proletariat, an economic monopoly is gradually established whereby the Communist Party becomes the sole employer. A man then has but one choice – he works for the Communist Party where he is told to work, or he starves to death. He may not leave his job to go to another, for there is only one employer – the Communist Party.

Yet another feature of the dictatorship of the proletariat is the establishment of a vast, internal espionage network. The Communist Party sees the State, not as a mass of individuals, but as an organic unity, a higher form of being….[with] secret police]. Children are set to spy on their parents, wives on their husbands, employees on employers, pastors on their congregations, parishioners on their pastors. Every group, large or small, would have in its midst a number of informers. None of these informers would know who the others are. Thus a stream of information from every segment of the community flows back to the central authority.

With such a system in existence, it is inevitable that a revolt that has any organization whatsoever will be discovered at birth and strangled in infancy.

The communists set about to disarm the people completely. Great rewards were given to those who would tell where weapons were hidden, and the rush to deliver concealed weapons began.

A major assault was made on the child[‘s] mind. Their affections were turned from their parents towards the State. They were given guns and appointed sentries with orders to challenge, and, if necessary, shoot adults. The school children would be marched out and given the task of searching all shops in an area for weapons and currency, and of accosting and searching all adults in the area.

Finally there came the day of the mass trials and executions. Behind the prisoners the school children would march to observe the execution. Then came the general populace.

The dictatorship becomes even more intense. The powers in the hands of the top few become greater and greater until finally there emerges the man of all power, the Joseph Stalin, who sits in the seat of the mighty while millions of slaves rush to and fro to do his bidding.’

(You Can Trust the Communists (…to do exactly as they say), Dr. Fred Schwartz, Prentice-Hall, 1961, pp. 96-101.