Dedication and Leadership by Douglas Hyde

Morton's review:

Dedication and Leadership

For many years Hyde was a leader of the Communist Party in Great Britain.  In 1948, the Communist stalwart shocked all Britain by resigning as editor of the daily paper of the British Communist Party and leaving the Party.

He became a Christian and wrote Dedication and Leadership as a guide to political skills for anti-communists, particularly Christians.  After reading it, you will understand why communism endured for so long.  Much of its success, Hyde shows, was due to its use of philosophically neutral techniques of communication, recruitment, training, and organization.

I learned of Dedication and Leadership about 1968 from Eugene Methvin, who was for decades a senior editor at the Readers Digest.  He gave me his old, marked-up paperback copy, which was nearly falling apart.  I read and studied it until it did fall apart.  Now I give away hundreds of copies to students at my schools each year.

 

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