30 years ago in Reason."The John Birch Society John Birch Society, ultraconservative, anti-Communist organization in the United States. It was founded in Dec., 1958, by manufacturer Robert Welch and named after John Birch, an American intelligence officer killed by Communists in China (Aug., 1945). has abandoned its old conspiracy theory conspiracy theory n. A theory seeking to explain a disputed case or matter as a plot by a secret group or alliance rather than an individual or isolated act. conspiracy theorist n. , which held that the liberal establishment is riddled rid·dle 1 tr.v. rid·dled, rid·dling, rid·dles 1. To pierce with numerous holes; perforate: riddle a target with bullets. 2. with Soviet agents.... Their 'new' theory holds that international communism communism, fundamentally, a system of social organization in which property (especially real property and the means of production) is held in common. Thus, the ejido system of the indigenous people of Mexico and the property-and-work system of the Inca were both was created by a small clique (mathematics) clique - A maximal totally connected subgraph. Given a graph with nodes N, a clique C is a subset of N where every node in C is directly connected to every other node in C (i.e. C is totally connected), and C contains all such nodes (C is maximal). of international and 'Wall Street' financiers." Peter E. McAlpine, "The Eastern Establishment 'Conspiracy'" "Intellectuals in the humanities have long attacked science.... The average college English professor lives with the unadmitted fear of exposure as an intellectual fraud--and the man most likely to expose him is the scientist, the real intellectual." Ronald E. Merrill, "The New Anti-Science Movement" "Unless Congress acts decisively to remove existing controls...the government will take over radio and television in a few years. The result would be a single broadcast system, 'operated, programmed--in short, completely dominated--by an elite group of Washington bureaucrats."' Trends, "Freedom from Broadcasting" |
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