ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author talks about the Hoover's work On Communism a hoary collection of homilies, polemics, and recollections. It must be judged in terms of nineteenth-century America's suspicion for anything alien, atheistic, and antagonistic to the American way. For those who are deeply concerned with what Hoover himself considers to be his most relevant passages, On Communism will bring ample succor. Hoover's communism emerges as the eternal oneness, given the same omnipotence and powers of evil generally reserved for the devil. Communism is more than a malodorous vapor emitted by evil men to becloud the minds of good people. Mexican Communists takes place in a "concentration area that was less than 150 miles from Laredo, Texas". In some peculiar way, Hoover sees communism as the highest stage of deviance. Deviance comes from insidious exposure to communism. Evidently, Hoover considers colleges and high schools the institutional framework through which the Communist ideology makes its deepest penetration.
