Talk:Bella Dodd

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Bella Dodd was born Maria Asunta Isabella Visono in Italy about 1904. a Brilliant and dedicated women, 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 Communist Party U.S.A. (CPUSA) National Council until 1949. In Her Book " School of Darkness" published in 1954, disillusioned...., Dodd described Communism as "a strange secret cult" whose goal is the destruction of Western i.e. Christian Civilization. The Communist party operated by infiltrating and subverting social institutions like the churches, schools, mass media and government. it's aim was "to create new types of human beings who would conform to the blueprint of the world they confidently expected to control" (p.162) For example, Dodd reveals that the CPUSA Bold texthad 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.Bold text only people who accepted the "materialistic, collectivist international class struggle approach' advanced. (P.98) 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, were to become a permanent part of future programs. The bourgeois (middle class) family as a social unit was to be made obsolete.Bold text There was to be no family but the party and the state. Dood helped organized "The Congress of American women", a forerunner of the femenist movement.Bold text "since it was supposedly a movement for peace, it attractede many women. But it was really only a renewed offensive to control American women.....like youth and minority groups, they are regarded as a reserve force of the revolution because they are more easily moved by emotional appeals.(p.194-195)

the above was appended to the bottom of the article. Frencheigh 20:26, 12 September 2006 (UTC)