Masters of Deceit

About this eBook

Author

Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972

Title

Masters of deceit : The story of Communism in America and how to fight it

Original Publication

New York: Pocket Books, Inc., 1958, pubdate 1961.

Credits

Charlene Taylor, Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

HX: Social sciences: Socialism, Communism, Anarchism

Subject

Communism -- United States

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 75796

Release Date

April 5, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MASTERS OF DECEIT
2. 2.Foreword
3. 3.Contents
4. 4.Part I — WHO IS YOUR ENEMY?
5. 5.Part II — HOW COMMUNISM BEGAN — 1. Marx—And the “Science” of Communism — 2. Lenin—And the Russian Revolution — 3. Stalin—A Fallen Idol — 4. How U.S. Communism Began, 1919-21 — 5. The Party Grows Up
6. 6.Part III — THE COMMUNIST APPEAL IN THE UNITED STATES — 6. Who Are the Communists? — 7. What Do U.S. Communists Claim? — 8. Why Do People Become Communists? — 9. Why People Break with Communism
7. 7.Part IV — LIFE IN THE PARTY — 10. How the Party Is Organized — The Communist Constitution (18th version, 1957) — The Three Levels of Power — Level 1: The High Command — Level 2: The Special Units — Level 3: Regional and Local Units — The Principle of “Democratic Centralism” — 11. This Is the Party! — 12. Making Communist Man — Back to School — Home Study — Party Literature — Cultural Indoctrination — 13. Communist Discipline
8. 8.Part V — THE COMMUNIST TROJAN HORSE IN ACTION — 14. Communist Strategy and Tactics — 15. Mass Agitation — 16. Infiltration — 17. The Communist Front — 18. Communism and Minorities — 19. The Communist Attack on Judaism
9. 9.Part VI — THE COMMUNIST UNDERGROUND — 20. How the Underground Works — Hide-outs — Meetings — 21. Espionage and Sabotage — 22. What Can You Do?
10. 10.Part VII — CONCLUSION — 23. Communism: A False Religion — 24. How to Stay Free
11. 11.GLOSSARY and BIBLIOGRAPHY
12. 12.Glossary — BOLSHEVIK: — BOURGEOISIE: — CADRE: — CAPITALISM: — CENTRISM: — CHAUVINISM: — CLASS: — CLASS STRUGGLE: — COMMUNISM (MARXIST SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM): — COMMUNISM (primitive): — COMMUNISM (stages of development): — COMPROMISE (MANEUVER, CONCESSIONS): — DEMOCRACY: — DEMOCRATIC CENTRALISM: — DEVIATION: — DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM: — DIALECTICS (DIALECTICAL): — DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT: — DISCIPLINE: — FACTION (FACTIONALISM): — FORCE AND VIOLENCE: — HISTORIC MISSION: — IMPERIALISM: — INEVITABILITY: — MARXISM-LENINISM: — MASSES: — MATERIALISM: — OPPORTUNISM (RIGHT-WING): — PARTY: — PARTY LINE: — PHILISTINE: — PROFESSIONAL REVOLUTIONARIES: — PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM: — PROLETARIAT: — PURGES: — REFORMISM (REFORMS, REFORMISTS): — REVOLUTION: — SELF-CRITICISM: — SOCIALISM (MARXIST): — SOCIALISM (NON-MARXIST): — STATE: — TRANSMISSION BELTS: — UNITED FRONT: — VANGUARD OF THE PROLETARIAT: — WAR:
13. 13.Bibliography of Major Communist “Classics” — KARL MARX: — FRIEDRICH ENGELS: — JOINT AUTHORSHIP OF MARX AND ENGELS: — VLADIMIR I. LENIN: — JOSEPH V. STALIN:
14. 14.APPENDICES
15. 15.Appendices — I Key Dates in Lives of Communist “Big Four” — II International Communist Organizations and Publications — III Communism in Russia — IV Communism in the United States
16. 16.INDEX
17. 17.Index

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