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The Anti-Communist Impulse (Michael Parenti)

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The Anti-Communist Impulse
AuthorMichael Parenti
PublisherRandom House
First published1969
TypeBook
Sourcehttps://archive.org/details/anticommunistimp0000mich/mode/2up

The Anti-Communist Impulse is a book by Michael Parenti, published in 1969 by Random House.

Acknowledgements

I wish to thank Elizabeth Coleman, Jane Clark Seitz, John J. Simon, Gladdin Schrock, and Philip West for their helpful criticisms and suggestions. Sydney and Carola Lea proved invaluable allies throughout much of this effort and I appreciate their support.

I am also indebted to the Louis Rabinowitz Foundation for a research grant which liberated me for a summer of writing.

The most gentle and helpful critic of all was my wife, Susan, to whom I pay a special tribute.

The book is dedicated to the Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr., because of his open mind and open heart

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE - The Conflicting Communisms

CHAPTER TWO - The Demon Communist

CHAPTER THREE - America the Virtuous

CHAPTER FOUR - Anti-Communism as an American Way of Life

CHAPTER FIVE - The Liberal and Conservative Orthodoxy

CHAPTER SIX - Virtue Faces the World

CHAPTER SEVEN - The Holy Crusade: Some Myths of Origin

CHAPTER EIGHT - Sacred Doctrine and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

CHAPTER NINE - The Yellow Demon I

CHAPTER TEN - The Yellow Demon II

CHAPTER ELEVEN - Vietnam: Who? Why?

CHAPTER TWELVE - Revolution and Counterrevolution

CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Profit, Prestige, and Self-preservation

CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Moral Imperialism

CHAPTER FIFTEEN - The Tragic Success

APPENDIX I - The Martial State

APPENDIX II - Civil Defence: Kill a Neighbour

APPENDIX III - The Devil Moves East