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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAyn Rand Helped FBI Find Communist Influence In 'It's A Wonderful Life'
HISTORY SHOCKER! AYN RAND HELPED FBI FIND COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE
Before War On Christmas 2013 fades into memory, lets take a look at how the FBI examined a Christmas Classic for evidence of communist propaganda. According to a nifty article in Aphelis, Frank Capras tale of the redemptive power of sentimental glurge was listed as potentially subversive, as part of a widespread investigation into alleged communist influence in Hollywood as if anyone needed to investigate such an obvious fact, haw haw!
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Among the group who produced the analytical tools that were used by the FBI in its analysis of Its a Wonderful Life was Ayn Rand
(who had also) published a similar report all by herself.
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The consulting groups fear was not that communist infiltrators in Hollywood would make movies calling openly for Marxist revolution, but rather that commies were trying, as one FBI document put it,
to corrupt non-political movies by introducing small casual bits of propaganda into innocent stories and to make people absorb the basic premises of Collectivism by indirection and implication. Few people would take Communism straight, but a constant stream of hints, lines, touches, and suggestions battering the public from the screen will act like drops of water that will split a rock if continued long enough. The rock they are trying to split is Americanism.
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http://aphelis.net/wonderful-life-communist-propaganda-fbi-files/
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http://happynicetimepeople.com/history-shocker-ayn-rand-helped-fbi-find-communist-influence-wonderful-life/
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Ayn Rand Helped FBI Find Communist Influence In 'It's A Wonderful Life' (Original Post)
kpete
Dec 2013
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daleanime
(17,796 posts)1. no wonder its one of my favorites
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)2. That sounds like something she would be into. n/t
indepat
(20,899 posts)3. Every shred and morsel of communism are pure evil to the core and all capitalism, even unfettered
and corrupt capitalism running amok and unregulated, thereby creating economic calamity as recently occurred is magnificently pure and good TPTB and MSM continuously preach to make sure we believe the official line without reservation.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)4. Why couldn't she just "go Galt" for the rest of us? n/t