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Targeting Communism in Cover Art, 1930’s

JF Ptak Science Books  Quick Post

This is just a quick picture-post sharing the cover art for anti-Communist works by the Jesuit priest, Raymond Feely.  Fr. Feely was not a fan of the Communists, who he felt amidst all other things raised the importance of the state to a religion and beatification of the State, and that of course just would not do. He wrote these in the mid-1930’s before the bestial stuff of Joseph Stalin had come out popularly in the West, and also before the Great Terror enveloped the U.S.S.R. There was still some interest in Stalin’s brand of Communism in the U.S., though that was the left-over mythological and chromed-over trumpian gilted Communism that people thought existed earlier, but actually didn’t.

Anyway, Feely had no use for that, and wrote about it–you can pretty much tell by the cover art what he thought of Communism.  

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