The Techniques of Communism

by Louis Francis Budenz

Overview

It is this study of the techniques of Communism on any large scale which has been lacking, although there is no subject more important for the United States. An increasing number of community leaders have become aware of this defect and have sought to remedy it through courses on the techniques of Communism. Certain colleges and universities have introduced such courses into the curriculum. The National Education Association, at its 1952 convention, recommended moves in the same direction by suggesting the study of Communism in the schools. The Senate Sub-Committee on Internal Security, in its July 1953 report on education, strongly recommends the necessity of classes for teachers and students in high schools and colleges, conducted by those effective in combating Communism.

An adequate textbook will make possible a dynamic study of Communism in our schools and in community groups. It will give an impetus to the wider introduction of this subject into colleges and civic organizations which have lacked the material for organizing such courses. The fact that a handbook or textbook of this character was not prepared in the past is one of the chief explanations for the slow progress so far.

The present book, designed to answer this need, is an analytical and critical study of Communism. It deals with Communist ideology, strategy, and ‘movement’ as presented by the Marxist-Leninist classics themselves and by current Communist documents and directives. It examines the relationship of the directives given by the Kremlin to the basic works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin. It considers these books and documents as the Communist himself studies and uses them. It analyzes Communist activities as the Communist is instructed to carry them out.

This is the competent manner in which the techniques of Communism can be mastered in order to defeat them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789124576
Publisher:	Muriwai Books
Publication date:	12/01/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	251
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Louis Francis Budenz (1891-1972) was an American activist and writer. He was also a Soviet espionage agent and head of the Buben group of spies.

Born on July 17, 1891 in Indianapolis, Indiana, he grew up on the Southside in a mostly German and Irish Catholic neighborhood around Fountain Square. He attended St. John’s Catholic High School in Indianapolis, Xavier University in Cincinnati, and St. Mary’s College in Topeka, Kansas before receiving his LL.B. from Indianapolis Law School in 1912.

He moved to Rahway, New Jersey in 1920, where he worked for the ACLU (NY) as publicity director. In 1924 and into the early 1930s, he was managing editor of the monthly magazine Labor Age. He advised striking workers and taught labor organizing and strike management at Brookwood Labor College outside New York City.

In 1934, he served as national secretary for A. J. Muste’s Conference for Progressive Labor Action (later the American Workers Party). He joined the Communist Party in 1935, continued to organize labor strikes, and became managing editor of the Party’s Daily Worker newspaper. He became a member of the National Committee of the Party. In 1938 he became editor of a new Communist daily in Chicago, the Midwest Daily Record.

In 1945, Budenz renounced Communism, returned to the Roman Catholic Church under the guidance of the popular television and radio personality Fulton Sheen, and became an anti-communist advocate. He appeared as an expert witness at various governmental hearings.

Formerly the author of numerous articles and pamphlets in support of Communist causes, after 1945 Budenz wrote several books about Communism. He became a professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and later taught at Fordham University, in addition to working as a syndicated columnist and lecturer. In 1947, he wrote an autobiography, This Is My Story.

He died on April 27, 1972 at Newport Hospital in Newport, Rhode Island.