Remember that it is the Communists’ aim to preach the supremacy, the superiority, the holy virtue of the group — as opposed to the individual. It is not America’s aim. Nor yours.
11. DON’T SMEAR AN INDEPENDENT MAN.
This is part of the same issue as the preceding point.
The Communists’ chief purpose is to destroy every form of independence — independent work, independent action, independent property, independent thought, an independent mind, or an independent man.
Conformity, alikeness, servility, submission and obedience are necessary to establish a Communist slave-state. Don’t help the Communists to teach men to acquire these attitudes.
Don’t fall for the old Communist trick of thinking that an independent man or an individualist is one who crushes and exploits others — such as a dictator. An independent man is one who stands alone and respects the same right of others, who does not rule nor serve, who neither sacrifices himself nor others. A dictator — by definition — is the most complete collectivist of all, because he exists by ruling, crushing and exploiting a huge collective of men.
Don’t permit the snide little touches which Communists sneak into scripts — all the lines, hints and implications which suggest that something (a person, an attitude, a motive, an emotion) is evil because it is independent (or private, or personal, or single, or individual).
Don’t preach that everything done for others is good, while everything done for one’s own sake is evil. This damns every form of personal joy and happiness.
Don’t preach that everything “public-spirited” is good, while everything personal and private is evil.
Don’t make every form of loneliness a sin, and every form of the herd spirit a virtue.