Ayn Rand Helped FBI Find Communist Influence In 'It's A Wonderful Life' [View all]

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HISTORY SHOCKER! AYN RAND HELPED FBI FIND COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN ‘IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE’



Before War On Christmas 2013 fades into memory, let’s take a look at how the FBI examined a Christmas Classic for evidence of communist propaganda. According to a nifty article in Aphelis, Frank Capra’s 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 It’s a Wonderful Life was Ayn Rand … (who had also) published a similar report all by herself.

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The consulting group’s 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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