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HOW IT CAN BE BEAT Mental-Survival StaminaCommunism, by applying Pavlov's findings to old ways of influencing minds, appeared to many people who consider themselves coldly realistic as having hit upon a strategy that was unbeatable. The Reds discovered that science, like fire, could be used more easily for destruction than construction, and have chosen to use it that way.This gave rise to a defeatist state of mind which expressed itself in such questions as: "Every man has a breaking point, so there's nothing you can do about it, is there?" This attitude was frequently given a respectable cloak by being called "objectivity," "neutrality," and even an "independent point of view," but it was defeatism and part of the deliberate softening-up process under communism.The communists endlessly repeat their hopelessness-inevitability line by argument, implication and example. Whether in a Soviet prison or at an international conference, it is always present. Like a medieval poison, it can turn the moral bloodstream into water.The communists, with calculated modesty, attribute their victories to dialectical materialism, as proof of the hopelessness of opposing their will and the inevitability of their ultimate triumph. Their dialectical materialism boils down to sheer materialism that wears a mystic cloak and proclaims the gospel of constant change through unceasing struggle, with the eternal, inflexible truth of communism as the only measurement for verity and good. This political theology admits no conclusions except its own. That is what communism