2.         UNANTICIPATED OBSTACLES TO THE THIRD REVOLUTION'S USE OF CLASSIC METHODS

A.        The Decline of Persuasive Power

            Let us examine the circumstances that may force communism to choose the path of adventure.

            The first is the decline of the persuasive power of communist proselytism.

            There was a time when explicit and categorical indoctrination was international communism's principal recruiting method.

            For reasons too extensive to enumerate, conditions have become considerably adverse to such indoctrination in almost all the West and in vast segments of public opinion. Communism's dialectics and its full and open doctrinal propaganda have visibly declined in persuasive power.

            This explains why in our days communist propaganda is carried out in an increasingly disguised, mild, and gradual way.

            Its disguise is effected either by spreading sparse and veiled Marxist principles through socialist literature, or by instilling in the culture of the establishment itself certain principles that, like seeds, later bear fruit, leading centrists to an inadvertent and gradual acceptance of the communist doctrine in its entirety.