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Foster, the noted satrap of <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a> who as General Secretary purged the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_USA" title="Communist Party USA">Communist Party USA</a> of anyone dissenting from whatever party line Stalin was promoting that week. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Contents"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Contents</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Cold_War_reprinting"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Cold War reprinting</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Contents">Contents</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toward_Soviet_America&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Contents">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The book, as might be expected of a Stalinist work, contains copious amounts of <a href="/wiki/Denialism" title="Denialism">denialism</a>, lies and <a href="/wiki/Bullshit" title="Bullshit">bullshit</a>, whitewashing the Soviet situation and characterizing reports of unpleasant facts about that country as "lies of the anti-Soviet propaganda campaign." </p><p>Of particular interest is the section in which Foster, following the then-current Soviet line, drops the usual pretense that communists consider themselves on the same side as liberals, blasting them and the non-communist left (who had the audacity to suggest that Stalin was some sort of dictator) as being "social fascists," thus anticipating in some measure the later claims of <a href="/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg" title="Jonah Goldberg">Jonah Goldberg</a>. </p><p>In a hilarious passage, the practice of science under communism is described as: </p> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>The working class ... has no interest to degrade science into a subtle system of propaganda, but on the contrary to give it the freest possible development.</div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>He also somehow managed to keep a straight face while squawking about non-anthropogenic famines in non-communist countries, while pointedly and repeatedly denying <a href="/wiki/Holodomor" title="Holodomor">the one his patron created</a>. </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Cold_War_reprinting">Cold War reprinting</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toward_Soviet_America&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cold War reprinting">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>The book was reprinted in 1961 by the House Un-American Activities Committee, with a foreword by its chairman Francis E. Walter,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> as an "expose of the evil communist conspiracy." However, the book was just a tiny bit outdated by then, with Stalin dead for some years and the Soviet Union in the midst of the <a href="/wiki/Khrushchev" class="mw-redirect" title="Khrushchev">Khrushchev</a> Thaw. We're sure that was a totally honest mistake on the committee's part.<small><sup>Do You Believe That?</sup></small> </p><p>It appears that two parts of the book's agenda to which the HUAC specifically objected were equality for women and African-Americans.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toward_Soviet_America&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://cgi.ebay.com/1961-TOWARD-SOVIET-AMERICA-Communist-Takeover-BOOK-1eDJ-/320613026591">http://cgi.ebay.com/1961-TOWARD-SOVIET-AMERICA-Communist-Takeover-BOOK-1eDJ-/320613026591</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=TzwkYyAqZqMC&pg=PA152">http://books.google.com/books?id=TzwkYyAqZqMC&pg=PA152</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Toward_Soviet_America&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.archive.org/details/towardsovietamer00fostrich">The book</a></li></ul>    </div></div><div 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