The other is an indoctrination or persuasion process for conversion purposes. They want to make sure that their followers will not grab the first opportunity to turn against them. That is the dilemma they have been unable to solve short of creating a 'new Soviet man' with the instinctive obedience of the termite instead of a free will which is subject to reasoning faculties and is therefore never 'reliable'. The man does not have to be a true believer so long as he is convinced that he has no alternative to following Red instructions. The Party's own name is one of its most striking examples of double-talk.
Communism is sheer power system, gang rule with modern appliances.
Each of the two processes are composed of a number of different elements found in every casethough the proportions differ according to the patient's resistance and the purpose for which the Reds are treating him, and range from a very mild and disarmingly subtle application to crude force polished over with Marxist lingo. These can be easily catalogued. Everyone has to participate in them, whether a party member or not. Learning means only political teaching from the communist standpoint. Confession is an integral part of the rites.