“The objectives of Communism are being steadily advanced…The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists.” -J Edgar Hoover (1956)

Bella Dodd was a Communist Party of America (CPUSA) leader in the 1930′ s and 1940′s. Her book,“School of Darkness” (1954) reveals that Communism was a hoax perpetrated by financiers “to control the common man” and to advance world tyranny. Naturally this important book is out-of-print and not in any used bookstores. It can be read onlinehere. [It has recently been reprinted and is available here.]

Bella Dodd was born Maria Asunta Isabella Visono in Italy about 1904. A brilliant and dedicated woman, she graduated from Hunter College and NYU Law School. She became head of the New York State Teachers Union and was a member of the CPUSA’s National Council until 1949.

Dodd describes Communism as “a strange secret cult” whose goal is the destruction of Western (i.e. Christian) Civilization. Millions of naive idealists (“innocents”) are tricked by its talk of helping the poor, but it cares only for power. For example, Dodd found there was no social research at party headquarters. “We are a revolutionary party, not a reform party,” she was told. (163)

CREATING “HUMAN BEINGS THAT WOULD CONFORM”

The Communist Party operates by infiltrating and subverting social institutions like the churches, schools, mass media and government. Its aim was “to create new types of human beings who would conform to the blueprint of the world they confidently expected to control.” (162)

For example, Dodd reveals that the CPUSA had 1100 members become Catholic priests in the 1930′s. It also subverted the American education system by taking over the teacher’s unions and learned societies. Only people who accepted the “materialistic, collectivist international class struggle approach” advanced. (98)

BOURGEOIS FAMILY TO BECOME OBSOLETE

Involving women in the war effort fitted the long-range program:

“The party did all it could to induce women to go into industry. Its fashion designers created special styles for them and its songwriters wrote special songs to spur them…. War-period conditions, they planned, were to become a permanent part of the future educational program. The bourgeois family as a social unit was to be made obsolete.” (153)

There was to be no family but the party and the state. Dodd helped organize the Congress of American Women, a forerunner of the feminist movement.

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