eugene methvin - the riot makers

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The Riot Makers began with a question asked by a magazine editor after the Tokyo riots of 1960 forced cancellation of a state visit by President Eisenhower. All the newspapers say these are Redinspired riots. How do we know? If youre a Communist, how do you start a riot? Do they have a handbook or a course on it somewhere?

Assigned to find the answers, Reader s Digest Washington editor Eugene H. Methvin began a long and sometimes harrowing quest with a simple call to the State Department. He asked to interview experts on the subject. A few days later a spokesman called back: Im embarrassed to have to tell you this, but we dont have any experts on that subject. We dont have anybody following such things. The same answer came from other federal agencies. And so the author began interviews with intelligence experts, law enforcement people, and former Communists.

Meanwhile, with the Harlem explosion of July 1964 and Watts in 1965, riots became not a foreign but a domestic concern. The author travelled to the scene for on-the-spot investigations in Harlem, Berkeley, Detroit, Newark, Chicago, Atlanta, Columbia, and Washington. At Columbia he narrowly missed being mobbed and clubbed; in Washington he was gassed.

Mr. Methvin gives us blow-by-blow descriptions of what happened, and why, in the race riots at Newark and the student riots at Columbia. He adds what he has learned from the dozens of other riots he has witnessed and studied. And he demonstrates how todays headlines are the result not of spontaneous events but of the technology of social demolition. He traces that technology back through history, shows the role of Lenin in its development.

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EUGENE H. METHVIN

The Technology of Social Demolition

ARLINGTON HOUSE

NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Riot Era

Part One What Happens? Who Riots?

1. The Social Avalanche. 2. Seedbed of Violence. 3. The Tinder. 4. Reservoir of Hate. 5. Climatizing the City. 6. Baiting the Police. 7. Drying the Tinder. 8. The Violent Catalyst. 9. Countdown to Chaos. 10. Spark, TinderExplosion. 11. Re-Ignition. 12. Two Faces in the Crowd. 13. Anarchy, Arson and Death. 14. Who Rioted?

1. The Causology of Riots. 2. Loading the Avalanche. 3. Pools of Pathology. 4. The Psychobiology of Violence. 5. Environmental Stress and Systemic Breakdowns. 6. Temporary Neurotics. 7. Flooding Hate Reservoirs. 8. Crooks in the Rose Bowl. 9. The Thin Blue Line. 10. Montreal Replication.

1. The Climate-Makers. 2. Young Rowdies and Criminals. 3. The Igniters. 4. Sandbox Revolutionaries. 5. Rumor-Spreaders and Rally-Callers. 6. Street-Fillers and Weaklings. 7. Bungling and Vacillating Authorities. 8. Paralyzed Law Enforcers. 9. OldLine Subversives. 10. Terrorists and Insurrectionists. 11. The Haters. 12. The Decent Majority.

1. Natural History of Riots. Act 1. Climate Making. Act 2. Precipitating Incident. Act 3. Keynoting, Signaling Anarchy. Act 4. The Drawing Effect. Act 5. Organized Insurrection. 2. Detroit: Classic Script. 3. Washington: Lessons Unlearned Again.

V THE RIOT MAKERS IN HISTORY 116

1. The Rise of Social Demolition Technology. 2. Urbanizing The Naked Ape. 3. The Megamind Era. 4. The Babeuvist Model for Mass Manipulation. 5. Other Historical Mass Actions. 6. Lenins Law. 7. The Leninist Synthesis. 8. Lenin Pioneers Manipulatory Sociology. 9. Schooling for Mass Manipulation.

10. The Technique of Partial Demands and Transitional Slogans. 11. The German Laboratory. 12. The 1928 Comintern Doctrine of Mass Actions. 13. Strikes and Depression Violence. 14. The Postwar Riot Era.

VI SYNTHESIS, DIFFUSION, AND THE LENINOIDS 159