On the Edge: Political Cults Right and LeftM.E. Sharpe, 30 авг. 2000 г. This is the first book to document the extent of political cults on both the right and left and explain their significance for mainstream political organizations. The authors outline the defining characteristics of cults in general, and analyze the degree to which a variety of well-known movements fall within the spectrum of cultic organizations. The book covers such individuals and groups as Lyndon LaRouche, Fred Newman, Ted Grant, Marlene Dixon, the Christian Identity movement, Posse Commitatus, Aryan Nation, militias, and the Freemen. It explores the ideological underpinnings that predispose cult followers to cultic practices, along with the measures cults use to suppress dissent, achieve intense conformity, and extract extraordinary levels of commitment. |
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Cults on the Right | 35 |
Christian Identity A Heritage of Hate | 37 |
Soldiers of God | 57 |
The Travels of Lyndon LaRouche | 69 |
Fred Newman Lenin as Therapist | 104 |
Synanon Utopia as a Game | 124 |
Marlene Dixons Little Army | 145 |
Gerry Healy Guru to a Star | 156 |
The Lonely Passion of Ted Grant | 173 |
The Many Faces of Gino Perente | 189 |
Politics as a Religion | 203 |
Notes | 223 |
Therapy Cults and Politics | 83 |
Scientology Maoism and the Reevaluations of Harvey Jackins | 85 |
Index | 241 |
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Стр. 18 - I use the term fgroupthink" as a quick and easy way to refer to a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive ingroup, when the members...
Стр. 221 - Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
Стр. 221 - The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.
Стр. 4 - A group or movement exhibiting great or excessive devotion or dedication to some person, idea, or thing, and employing unethical manipulative or coercive techniques of persuasion and control (eg isolation from former friends and family, debilitation, use of special methods to heighten suggestibility and subservience, powerful group pressures, information management, suspension of individuality or critical...
Стр. 24 - For instance, we don't know how much punishment is best for learning — and we don't know how much difference it makes as to who is giving the punishment, whether an adult learns best from a younger or an older person than himself — or many things of that sort. So in this study we are bringing together a number of adults of different occupations and ages. And we're asking some of them to be teachers and some of them to be learners. We want to find out just what effect different people have on...
Стр. 37 - t dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason: that it is criminal lunacy to keep on drilling a born half-ape until people think they have made a lawyer out of him...
Стр. 47 - His name, to join together in holy union with those brothers in this circle and to declare forthright that from this moment on I have no fear of death, no fear of foe; that I have a sacred duty to do whatever is necessary to deliver our people from the Jew and bring total victory to the Aryan race...
Стр. 40 - WE BELIEVE that there are literal children of Satan in the world today. These children are the descendants of Cain, who was a result of Eve's original sin, her physical seduction by Satan.
Стр. 65 - His battle-ax and weapons of war. Let us go forth by ones and twos, by scores and by legions, and as true Aryan men with pure hearts and strong minds face the enemies of our faith and our race with courage and determination. "We hereby invoke the blood covenant and declare that we are in a full state of war and will not lay down our weapons until we have driven the enemy into the sea and reclaimed the land which was promised of our fathers of old, and through our blood and His will, becomes the land...
Стр. 3 - ... of a jigsaw puzzle assembled by magic at one stroke. There is now an answer to every question, doubts and conflicts are a matter of the tortured past — a past already remote, when one had lived in dismal ignorance in the tasteless, colorless world of those who don't know. Nothing henceforth can disturb the convert's inner peace and serenity — except the occasional fear of losing faith again, losing thereby what alone makes life worth living, and falling back into the outer darkness, where...