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...workings of open-door expansion in specific cases. Fortunately, the dynamics of Soviet polities have been sufficiently explored by Deutscher, Moore, Marcuse, Shulman, and Ulam to show that NATO was based on an inflated myth and that Stalin actually sold out revolutionary movements outside the sphere of Soviet conquest. But anti-communism has become a foundation of our foreign policy...
...such far-out rightists is both ominous and self-righteous, like that of the "skinheads," a similar group of disaffected youth in Great Britain. Good Americans, suggest NYA/WSL writings, are the workers and producers in society; intellectuals are not producers, but "softeners" of those solid qualities of strength and conquest at the envisioned heart of "Western Civilization." Those who undermine this culture, NYA/WSL spokesmen feel, must be defeated by any necessary means, including violence...
...Behind conquest-the proof of superiority and inferiority-is the idea of inherent inequality. "Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free," is the motto of Attack! A pin worn by NYA members bears the symbol of mathematical inequality, an equals sign with a slash mark across it. The teaching of eugenics, NYA authors feel, will help students learn of white supremacy; and that recognition, their reasoning goes, will give whites the will power to assert their superiority...
...civilization," writes the editor of Attack!, "is founded and rests on violence. Every civilization is directly descended from a conquest; and if it were not for the constant promise of retaliatory violence from the law, me would live every moment at the utter mercy of criminals and thugs...
...improved hospital care, in partial conquest of such killers as cancer and heart disease, will make life better for the old and will undoubtedly add to population pressures...