Earlier, we cited the use by Stalin of guilt as a means of enslaving and governing his subject peoples. It must be added that Stalin himself was governed by guilt. He had an obsessive belief in the omnipresence of his enemies and went to extreme lengths to protect himself. He had made slaves of all the people, but he himself was the continually haunted slave of his bad conscience and his fear of the people. Since Stalin's day, there has been no essential change in the rulers of the Soviet system.
Slave labor is still the lifeblood of the economy, and total surveillance, and total fear, prevail.
The same extreme precautions are taken to protect the present leaders from the people. Although not to the same degree, the same bad conscience governs most Western heads of states. They wage war, usually covertly, against God and man in terms of a humanistic ideal. They see other men as no more than manure to fertilize the ground of a planned future. They sacrifice men in wars they do not plan to win, and they treat people as instruments to be manipulated.