17 ¸rans, Roosevelt had thousands of them toiling in the Throughout the fifties, liberal activity was confined toCCCs. installing and testing the infrastructure in preparationIn a rough equivalent of his wife, Roosevelt also sent for the upsurges of the sixties. Clearest among these actitheworking class section 7(a) of the NRA -- the right to vities was Nelson Rockefeller's direct involvement in theorganize. In a carefully thought out strategy (see creation of the Department of Health, Education andFreeman article, last issue)Roosevelt and the capitalists Welfare; better identified as the Department of Brainhopedto defuse the mass strike potential of 1934 with washing, Community Control and Slave Labor.the wet blanket of section 7(a). As any revolutionary Just as the depression!of the thirties had mobilized theworkers must have known, the right to organize is only fighting instincts of the entire class, so was the beginninggranted off of the self-organized strength of the class, contraction of the economy in the early sixties going toNonetheless, the communist parties and the class, chose create an upsurge among the effected layer -- the ghettoto play with the toys that the Holy Mother Eleanor had population. The liberalS, once again in the service of thegiven them rather than face the responsibilities of taking Illuminati, forwarded a counterinsurgency programpower in the United States. matched in brutality 0nly by the coming austerity.Throughout the war period, the rage of the working The concept of "community control," was deliberaclassbegan to build as wages were held down and profits tively developed by the Ford Foundation in the late fiftiessoared. The working-class explosion at the end of World and grafted onto President Johnson's War AgainstWar II was well prepared for. While the liberal trade- Poverty at the last moment by a Ford Foundation agent,union leaders were successfully purging the communists, Paul Ylvisaker. The community control strategy had aa new countergang was busy isolating the working class two-_old purpose -- tO counter any possibility of linkingfrom any broad support from professional and intellec- the ghetto in a class-wide fight; and to create the contuallayers. The Americans for Democratic Action was trolled _ersive environment necessary for the braincreatedconsciously for that purpose by a coalition of washing of millions of ghetto youth. The near-psychoticanti-communist trade-union leaders, the Holy Mother proto-fascist content iof this strategy was laid out byEleanor and a passle of ex-OSS and present and future Ylvisaker himself: "Every man for himself- the socialCouncil on Foreign Relations members, expression of Darwin's Law of Nature. By splitting theThe need for the ADA was spelled out by one of its old social atoms of family and village and by liberatingfounding members, James Wechsler, "In the individual particles, we have released a tremendousAmerican,...there was rising Republican reaction, a amount of human energy. This is the power potential ofpro-Communist left and nothing in between but the still the city and its role in the human system. But we are ininept bumbling President." Even more blunt was Max constant danger ofdissipatingthat power .... " It was saidLerner, "There can be no doubt that without the ADA, of Ylvisaker that "he put his deepest faith in the vitalityAmerican political thought and action would have of this emancipating anarchy."become more extremist at both ends, Left and Right. Harnassing that emancipating anarchy -- one couldThe example of European nations, where Communism not come up with a more accurate description of brainpenetratedthe intellectual and professional groups after washing the transformation of an atomized, angrythe war is an index of what might have happened in black youth into a zombie cop-killer. That is theAmerica." With self-ascribed credentials such as those, program which liberals and Democrats gave to thelittle need be said about the actual policies of the ADA, ghetto in the sixtieS.except perhaps to point out the subsequent careers of The economic decay which hit the ghettoes in thesome ADA alumni: Chester Bowles, advisor under sixties now extends :to the entire working class, and theKennedy on Africa, Asia, and Latin America; Arthur liberals are extending their program to the entire class.Goldberg (formerly of OSS trade-union operations), The sleeping, apolitical giant that is the AmericanSecretary of Labor, Wilbur Cohen, Secretary of HEW as working class must now awake under the leadership ofit began to gear up its brainwashing operations in the the Labor Committees. Lying cuddled in the lap ofghetto; Archibald Cox of Watergate fame; and Thomas liberalism and of the Democratic Party is no longerFinletter, NATO ambassador. Enough is enough, simply ludicrous .! it is suicidal.
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