Original submission by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center
Edited and reduced by staff at Katy Christian Magazine
A Personal Note from Tom DeWeese, Founder of American Policy Center:
The following article from APC Vice President Kathleen Marquardt is quite long, but it contains information she believes is important in explaining how the radical Left operates and how it has been able to label those working to stop it as conspiracy theorists and hate mongers. That approach has been effective for years. If you want to fight it, you need the details in this article. Save it, file it, and share it. We have a long way to go to restore freedoms that many believe have been steadily eroded.
For decades, many of us have tried to wake the public up to what we see as the machinations of leaders working toward a one-world order controlled by the rich and powerful, structured around Marxism and communism.
For years, there were dedicated citizens who tried to expose what they saw as the dangers of a push for communist or Marxist world control. Those on the side of free-market, laissez-faire capitalism, property rights, and personal freedoms were ridiculed, blackmailed, or treated with contempt, so that no “civilized” person would be willing to consider their warnings about the United Nations, the World Bank, or even Greenpeace. Figures such as Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Joseph McCarthy, Gen. Benton Partin, and Paul Harvey were often cast out of polite society and driven out of “respectable” circles.
What those leaders, and others like them, have done is keep some semblance of freedom-supporting information in front of the public when possible.
One such figure, whom I doubt even 1% of people have heard of, is Jeri Lynn Ball, author of four books that, in my view, should have been more widely shared decades ago. She posed a set of questions that still matter: Is it true Americans are targets of psychological warfare? Is it true there has been a deliberate attempt to undermine institutions and beliefs, and to weaken the United States? Is it true that, to achieve these ends, influential actors have gained major control over education, universities, entertainment, and media? Those are the key places for maximum reach.
In Ball’s view, the minds that understood which areas to infiltrate did so effectively. Those same areas, she argues, should have protected constitutional freedoms.
Her books, including Masters of Seduction, are out of print and hard to find. We are trying to obtain them. Meanwhile, please read these pages from Masters of Seduction and share them.
Condensed from the book Masters of Seduction (Plus Vital New Facts)
MASTERS OF SEDUCTION: Beguiling Americans Into Slavery and Self-Destruction
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This book presents claims that are sharply at odds with information widely circulated by major media. Given the press’s power to shape public opinion, Ball argues that most Americans have never heard these facts. The truth may shock you. It may seem staggering, even inconceivable.
Is it true that Americans are targets of a full-scale psychological war? Is it true there has been a deliberate attempt to undermine institutions and beliefs, and to weaken the United States? Is it true that, to achieve these ends, influential actors have gained control over education, universities, entertainment, and media? If so, how was that power acquired, and why attempt to manipulate the thoughts and emotions of the American people?
Masters of Seduction zeroes in on those questions, arguing that Communist leaders who ran the former Soviet Union and East Bloc nations during the Cold War still wield influence today, and that psychological warfare is being used as a weapon of subjugation. Ball argues that Russian totalitarians, Communist China, and their globalist “partners” are using an ideological weapon to pursue world domination. She argues that communism is not dead and that it continues to spread.
In Ball’s view, America is now in danger of being devoured by a rapidly spreading evil.
ORIGIN OF THE TOTALITARIAN NEW WORLD ORDER
At the Sixth Party Congress held in Moscow in 1928, Communists wrote and approved “The Program” to bring in a New World Order. Ball argues that most Americans do not understand the real nature of this scheme. The Program of the Third International called for a global environmental program and for transforming human beings to accept the New World Order. Ball points readers to General Benton Partin’s videotape, Globalism: The Program, for additional discussion.
Ball argues that Communists planned to use a global environmental program as a means of eradicating national sovereignty and creating a world dictatorship. Nations, nationalities, and national boundaries were to be replaced by an omnipotent, one-world government and regional governance structures. She argues that Communists rejected the American approach to liberty, including individual God-given rights protected by limited government. She argues they rejected the American concept of the rule of law in favor of unrestrained despotic government.
Twenty delegates from the U.S. voted for the 1928 Program of the Third International.
The Totalitarian Vision of “Human Reconstruction”
The same year they wrote “The Program,” Ball argues that Communist architects began implementing plans for a global communitarian order, starting with the transformation of human psychology. Nikolai Bukharin had previously written that the revolution’s principal task was to “alter people’s actual psychology.” (Emphasis added.)
In 1928, Bukharin stated that “one of the first priorities is the question of the systematic preparation of new men, the builders of [totalitarian] socialism.” In his book Soviet Civilization, Andrei Sinyavsky states that the “idea of the new man is the cornerstone of Soviet civilization.” Ball argues that the “new man” is presented as the indispensable basis of totalitarian society.
Ball argues that Communists sought not only the reconstruction of institutions, but the reconstruction of human beings. In her framing, communist totalitarianism grew because it secured the support of “a man of a new social and psychological type,” the “new communitarian man.” A communitarian, in this usage, is a member of a communistic community who adopts collectivist concepts such as the spirit of community, selfless commitment to service, and duty to work for “the common good.” Ball argues the terms “Communist” and “communitarian” are used interchangeably, with “communitarian” often sounding softer.
In 1928, Communists formally adopted “The Program” for building a new global communitarian social order composed of a ruling elite and subjugated masses. Ball argues that Soviet leaders reinforced collectivist moral ideals throughout society.
Ball argues the individual was “reconstructed” by urging him to:
- develop a sense of community;
- cultivate selflessness;
- suppress personality, individuality, and identity;
- merge into the community;
- accept a duty to work for “the common good.”
Ball presents the communitarian moral code as a key tool used to control populations.
Auguste Comte (1798-1857) coined the term altruism. Ball portrays Comte as demanding that individuals renounce individualism and practice selflessness, with “duties” replacing “rights,” and that men live in service to the community. Ball argues Comte promoted a “religion of Humanity” in place of Christianity and sought unity of belief enforced through government cultivation of collectivism.
Following the lead of Kant, Marx, Comte, and other philosophers, Ball argues that Communists sought to obliterate the independent individual and merge each person into the mass.
Ball argues communitarianism holds that the individual is nothing and the community is all, and that the new communist man views individualism as a grave sin. She cites Sinyavsky’s description that the “new man” feels distrust, even hatred, for the mere idea of personality, and renounces loyalty to family, nation, and church in favor of loyalty to Communism.
Ball describes Vladimir Lenin as placing importance on “voluntary working Saturdays,” framing them as “communism in action,” where people sacrifice time and personal interests to work for the community “of their own free will.”
In the early 1920s, Communist leader Mikhail Kalinin stated, “When we have Communism the whole state will be an enormous organization of mutual assistance of all mankind.” Ball cites Dr. Samuel Harper describing extensive efforts to promote and direct civic activity, with trained staffs of “agitation-propaganda-organizers” and “political-education-workers.”
Ball describes countless organizations mobilizing citizens for aid and civic projects, arguing leaders attacked self-reliance and preached a service ethic. In Ball’s framing, this was meant to produce a dependent citizen for a New World Order.
The Role of the Government in the Communitarian Society
In a communitarian society, Ball argues, the government defines, dictates, and implements community needs. Citizens are conditioned to accept the loss of individuality, reject initiative and enterprise, and yield to authority for “the good of the community.” Ball argues that, in such a society, the “masters” become the mind, voice, and conscience of the community.
By grouping people into a collectivized society and expanding rituals, campaigns, organizations, and service programs, Ball argues that leaders can increase supervision and regimentation of every activity. Ball claims that, in a full-blown communitarian society, individual God-given rights and private property do not exist, and that leaders justify severe force as “for the good of the community.”
They believe that unless there is sufficient force to ensure obedience and conformity, the masses will resist. From that worldview flows a willingness to eliminate those who refuse to be “reconstructed.”
NEW WORLD ORDER ARCHITECTS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM: UNLEASHING TOTALITARIAN CONTROL
Bill Clinton, Al Gore, former President George H.W. Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and other figures described as New World Order architects are portrayed as advancing what is often referred to as the “Program of the Third International,” adopted at the Sixth Party Congress in Moscow in 1928.
According to this view, modern communitarian leaders are drawing Americans toward a globalist framework that places collective authority above national sovereignty. Mikhail Gorbachev is frequently identified as a central figure in this effort, working in cooperation with Western political leaders to reshape governance structures in ways critics argue resemble the centralized systems of the former Soviet Union.
Gorbachev served as President of the Soviet Union and General Secretary of the Communist Party. He later became president of Green Cross International, an environmental organization that critics contend advances elements of the Communist-era global environmental agenda. Headquartered in Moscow, he also established the Gorbachev Foundation, with a U.S. branch located at the Presidio in San Francisco, a former military base.
Gorbachev has repeatedly affirmed his ideological commitments. In November 1987, he stated, “In October 1917, we parted with the old world, rejecting it once and for all. We are moving toward a new world, the world of Communism. We shall never turn off that road.” In 1989, he said, “I am a Communist, a convinced Communist.” The following year, even amid praise for overseeing the end of the Soviet system, he reiterated his admiration for Marx, Engels, and Lenin.
Karl Marx envisioned a future society in which individuals would suppress personal identity, relinquish private property, and merge into a collective whole. In The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels outlined measures including the abolition of inheritance, progressive taxation, and state control of education, production, and communication. Vladimir Lenin later operationalized these ideas, establishing the first Marxist socialist state.
Lenin defined dictatorship as “power without limit, resting directly upon force, restrained by no laws.” Historian Brian Crozier described Marxism as an ideology committed to global expansion. In Perestroika, Gorbachev wrote that reforms were intended not to abandon socialism, but to strengthen it.
Former KGB analyst Anatoliy Golitsyn argued that perestroika was not merely domestic reform, but part of a long-term strategy to restructure the global order. Political scientist R.J. Rummel documented how Marxist ideology enabled mass atrocities by redefining moral categories in service of the state.
Rummel estimated that nearly 62 million people were killed by the Soviet government, most of them civilians. The gulag system alone consumed tens of millions of lives over decades. Christopher Story has reported that forced labor camps and coercive psychiatric practices continued well after the Cold War era.
Critics argue that the same ideological foundations produced widespread environmental damage, poverty, and repression across Communist and post-Communist states. Douglas Miller described totalitarian systems as predatory, surviving by consuming the resources of others.
Golitsyn warned that convergence between East and West would be accompanied by political repression and re-education efforts. Gorbachev himself called for expanded global governance, including a strengthened United Nations with enforcement powers.
Global initiatives such as Agenda 21 and the Biodiversity Treaty are cited by critics as steps toward centralized control over land use and human activity. Supporters view these efforts as environmental cooperation; opponents argue they undermine sovereignty and property rights.
William F. Jasper of The New American described the United Nations as increasingly unaccountable and warned of abuses under a global authority with legislative and enforcement power. Gary Benoit similarly argued that centralized global governance would regulate nearly every aspect of life.
The Gorbachev Foundation is described as inheriting functions of earlier Communist international bodies, according to Christopher Story, who characterized it as a successor to Comintern-style operations.
The Council on Foreign Relations has also been criticized by figures such as Admiral Chester Ward, who argued that its long-term goal was the erosion of national sovereignty. CFR members have held influential positions across government, media, and academia.
Proponents of this critique contend that psychological warfare, rather than military force, has been the primary means of advancing communitarian ideology in the United States. Drawing on Antonio Gramsci’s theories, they argue that institutions such as churches, schools, universities, and media have been gradually reshaped.
This process is described as occurring in stages: demoralization, crisis, and normalization. Through propaganda and cultural influence, critics argue, Americans are being conditioned to accept expanded government authority in exchange for perceived stability.
Masters of Seduction presents this as a systematic effort to weaken American individualism and constitutional principles, replacing them with a collectivist moral framework that prioritizes obedience and conformity over liberty.
Preparing the American Communitarian Society for Convergence with the Soviet Communitarian Society
America is becoming a full-blown communitarian society. In the name of saving the environment, Communist environmentalists are attacking property rights. In the name of group rights, communitarian masters are eroding individual rights. In the name of saving “the Children,” they are weakening the ties of family, country, and religion. In the name of “public safety” and “crime prevention,” they are producing chaos, hatred, and distrust.
Most communities now have community police, and, just as in other communitarian societies, community “thought policing” is increasingly being used to detect, investigate, and report “suspicious activities,” “political crimes,” “hate crimes,” and “anti-social” behavior. “Anti-social” behavior is defined as failing to yield to governmental authority for the good of the community and asserting your individual rights, including property rights. Anyone who fails to see the “(Party) light,” i.e., normal, rational, intelligent, freedom-loving individuals, is treated as someone who has to be “cured,” which is the stated purpose of ubiquitous community mental health centers.
Ultimately, if Communists succeed in creating their New World Order, community health centers will, in this view, inevitably employ totalitarian methods, including compulsory psychiatric treatment, as has been reported in Russia. Communitarians have divided the United States into thousands of local communities, i.e., communistic societies. These communities have been assigned a six-digit Community Number. For example, the City of Colorado Springs is Community No. 080060, the City of Dallas is Community No. 480171, and so on.
The most powerful organization in this country, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), takes charge when disasters such as fires or floods occur. In the event of a real or manufactured crisis, FEMA is said to have the power to turn America into a regimented police state.
Presidential Executive Orders are being used to expand the power of the federal government and to facilitate the seizure of greater authority. Presidential Executive Order 12919, in effect, calls for the seizure of the country’s electric power, food supplies and resources, transportation, health and welfare facilities, airports, railroads, and more, if there is a potential threat to the nation’s security, such as an economic crisis or growing international tension.
FEMA would take charge and would use the community system to facilitate its efforts to gain total control over every person, place, and thing in this country. The seizure of authority would be followed by convergence of the Soviet and American systems.
America: A Country of Individual Liberty
The Founding Fathers created a country of individual liberty. The United States of America was the first nation in the history of mankind to protect every individual’s unalienable rights: his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Laissez-faire capitalism was the original American system and way of life. This system recognizes and protects individual rights, including property rights. It permits each individual to plan and act according to his own plans. It is the only system that rigidly defines and limits the actions of government and protects citizens from aspiring dictators.
The American system, as created by the Founding Fathers, lasted for approximately a century. The founders of this country regarded government not as a master of the people, but as a servant. Government provides the following functions: law enforcement by local police to protect men from criminals; a judicial system with courts to decide disputes among men; and a military force to protect men from foreign aggressors.
Since government is the only entity that holds a monopoly on the legal use of physical force, its actions must be strictly defined and limited. If we want to escape the horrors of totalitarianism, then we must restore America as a free and independent constitutional republic, and re-establish the primacy and sovereignty of the individual and the supremacy of individual rights. We must rigidly define and limit the actions and scope of the U.S. government, whose sole purpose is to protect and defend our unalienable individual rights. States should claim sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment and demand that the actions of the U.S. government be strictly limited to those delegated by the Constitution.
The Tenth Amendment reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The Constitution lists all of the powers of the federal government. It has no other powers. If a power is not listed, then the federal government does not have it. The federal government has insinuated itself illegally and unconstitutionally into nearly every area of our culture: health care, education, our economic activities, and law enforcement, to name a few. Its socialistic regulations and controls are taking the place of voluntary exchange of goods and services.
Our government has arrogated to itself such vast powers that America is now on the verge of becoming a police state: the stage of rule by brute force. Socialists have turned this nation into a welfare state, not because they are concerned about the health and well-being of Americans, but because they want to expand the power of government. They have used the Marxist concept of the progressive income tax, the policy of redistributing the nation’s wealth, Social Security, and other welfare-state practices and programs to concentrate power in the State at the expense of individual freedom. Under the guise of “doing good,” they are increasingly using the legal force of government, including armed, organized police power, to direct and control the activities of Americans.
Communitarians have worked to undermine Christian moral principles and to eradicate the concept of right and wrong. Communitarian masters are training Americans to embrace, with religious intensity, a sense of community and to accept Communism as the only religion. The United States was not founded as a communitarian nation, but as a Christian nation. All of the Founding Fathers acknowledged the existence of Almighty God and His Divine Providence.
George Washington said, “It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey His will….” Patrick Henry said, “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded…on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.”
James Madison said, “We have staked the future upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to sustain ourselves, according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
In Red China, the “former” Soviet republics, and many Third World nations, one can see firsthand how socialism has been accompanied by serious environmental damage: rivers that resemble flowing cesspools, widespread pollution, mismanaged forests, grossly inadequate sewage facilities, and more. Wealthy, industrialized, capitalist nations are often held up as more environmentally stable and better resourced for pollution control. In this view, government-run “Communist” environmental policies can end up doing real harm. For example, MTBE, a gasoline additive, has been linked to water pollution in California and other states. National forests are often criticized as being poorly managed. And, the argument continues, policies tied to “free trade” and globalism have contributed to the spread of invasive plants and animals, causing economic and environmental disruption. The Clinton-Gore Administration is also pushing for stronger gun controls.
The Founding Fathers believed Americans must be able to defend themselves if government becomes a violator of rights. The Second Amendment gives citizens the right to keep and bear arms. The Bill of Rights was written to protect citizens from government overreach. The author’s conclusion is blunt: the greatest danger comes when government violates individual rights. From that perspective, some leaders seek to regulate, or even confiscate, firearms because they do not want Americans capable of resisting tyranny.
The Communists’ goal, the author argues, is to create a nation of self-satisfied slaves. After years of indoctrination in government-run schools, Americans are said to be absorbing the same lessons as the Russians: “We are not slaves. The slaves are not us.” Americans consider themselves “free,” despite the claim that they work like serfs for government. They work more than half of every year, the argument goes, to pay taxes and cover the costs of federal, state, and local government, including costs tied to regulations, minimum wage requirements, and more.
The annual federal income tax is, the author claims, unconstitutional even after the 16th Amendment, and functions as a Marxist tool for expanding totalitarian power. G. Edward Griffin writes, “The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect. Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes. Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.”
The author emphasizes that the Founding Fathers intended to fund the “normal operation of the government” primarily through indirect taxes. Griffin’s book, The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, is recommended for information about the Federal Reserve System, which he describes as “the greatest scam of all history.” The author then adds another claim: Communists are deliberately promoting promiscuity, pornography, obscenity, homosexuality, and drug abuse.
“The United States has been targeted as an act of war and is the victim of a long-range, sustained, vicious drug offensive,” writes Joseph D. Douglass, Jr. In his book, Red Cocaine: The Drugging of America, Douglass argues that for decades Communists have sought to increase narcotics production and expand global trafficking and marketing operations.
The purpose of their propaganda campaign, the author asserts, is to demoralize Americans and create demand for drugs. Their narcotics strategy is described as a way to hook people, generate vast profits, and corrupt political, judicial, and law enforcement systems. The author adds that Communists also aim to persuade Americans that the Constitution is outdated and our constitutional system obsolete, to capture both major political parties (a goal the author says has already been achieved), to undermine America’s moral ideals and cultural values through mass immigration from Socialist and Communist nations, to promote the UN and expand GATT, NAFTA, NATO, and other UN-affiliated alliances and trade blocs, and to create a false sense of economic strength while laying groundwork for an eventual collapse.
The author argues we are not experiencing an economic miracle and that the state of the Union is precarious. Leaders of the present administration are described as manipulating the nation’s finances, while a propaganda machine manipulates public perception. The purpose, the author says, is to create an illusion of security and prosperity, not to communicate truth.
Job growth, the author claims, is not occurring in manufacturing. Instead, the administration is promoting service-sector employment, with the highest-growth categories including salespeople, janitors, cashiers, fast-food workers, and restaurant staff. The people’s savings are being drained, taxes squandered, and resources exhausted, the argument continues. Easy credit, printing-press money, and record trade deficits are described as pushing the nation toward financial disaster.
The Clinton-Gore Administration and its Communist allies, the author claims, are using “free trade” and a “global economy” to bring about the planned economic weakening of America. In order to make America defenseless, the author says, globalist communitarians are shifting manufacturing and fuel and food production overseas, making America dependent on enemies for essential goods, and driving what the author calls unilateral disarmament.
America is becoming increasingly dependent on Communist and Socialist nations, the author writes, including Red China, Mexico, and others, for essential products. A nation dependent on enemies for food can be starved into submission. Without an adequate defense industrial base, it cannot defend itself in a prolonged military conflict.
In the November 2000 ACCT newsletter, William J. Gill writes, “As far back as 1987 the Army Chief of Staff, General John A. Wickham, warned the U.S. should not get into a war that could last more than a few months because the industrial production capacity could not support it. Since then more than 700 steel mills shut down, our domestic oil production fell sharply, and the refining capacity for oil has atrophied. Today, China is No. 1 in steel. The U.S. is a distant fifth behind the European Union, Japan, Russia, and No. 1 China. In 1960 we had nearly 60% of the world’s total steel capacity. Now it is barely 10%.” Globalists are gutting the nation, the author argues, and from high-tech industries to shoe factories, industrial production is being handed over to other nations.
Gill states, “Industrially, the United States is no longer an independent country.” The author adds that China and Russia are engaged in a major military build-up to intimidate the United States with nuclear ballistic missiles, neutron bombs, biological weapons, chemical weapons, and other weapons of mass destruction.
MASTERS OF SEDUCTION SHOWS THE WAY
This book contains the intellectual ammunition patriotic Americans need to defeat the globalist masters and stop the creation of the New World Order.
The masters do have an Achilles’ heel, the author claims: their communitarian system. Americans can be enlightened and urged to topple totalitarianism, described here as the most evil, insidious, and inhumane social structure ever created, with its treacherous foundation of community life and selfless social service. If that foundation is eliminated, the author argues, the structure will crumble.
The “new man” is described as the indispensable basis of every totalitarian society. Totalitarianism must have the backing, approval, and fearful devotion of “new men and women.” Communitarian masters are doing their utmost to strengthen that foundation, the author says, and Americans must do their utmost to eradicate it. Stop sacrificing your life to evil.
Outwit and overpower the masters of seduction, the author urges. Drop out of their communistic communities. Stop allowing yourself to be reconstructed into “new men and women.” Refuse to perform community service. Reject communitarian ideals. Take an uncompromising stand for principled individualism and fight for your life and the life of this country.
Masters of Seduction offers goals, political principles, strategies, and tactics, described as a sound and consistent ideological program that can change the direction of the country. It describes what the author calls the single most important strategy for restoring freedom and individual rights.
When we reject the globalist police state worldview, reclaim America’s founding principles and ideals, and re-establish a free and independent constitutional republic, the author concludes, we can save the nation and help set the world on a course toward peace, productivity, and prosperity.
