In "America's Retreat From Victory" he obliquely points at something:
"...After Colonel Marshall had been removed from command at Fort Screven, he left for Fort Moultrie in South Carolina. The residence of the Commanding Officer of that post was a large, rambling structure, replete with 42 French doors opening on two verandas. Mrs. Marshall, as she reports it, had barely provided 325 yards of curtains for the French doors when orders came transferring her husband to Chicago as senior instructor of the Illinois National Guard...
I see this as a clue, that he (or his wife) had a grasping nature, and were susceptible to the pressures of money. We were in the grips of the Depression when his wife was purchasing 325 yards of curtains for the commandant quarters on Fort Moultrie.
I have never fully been ready to reconcile Marshall as a Communist or even a closet Communist, but I think it is possible influence was being negatively asserted on him in the form of blackmail of some kind, financial, sexual, et.
And that is something the Communists were very good at. And once they own someone, there is no escape.
Once you master Sutton you realize that ideology is a symptom of the problem and not the problem.
Communism was about an elite keeping competitors down.
I always say that under Communism what is mine is mine and what is yours is mine.
The analogy would be “climate change” ideology today.
It is insane on its face—but the elites use it to control people, manipulate people, brainwash people.
They use it get special favors and special treatment for themselves and their corporate and/or nonprofit buddies.
Once you recognize as a tool and not the driving issue (which is wealth and power) a lot of stuff starts to make sense.
Part of why I freaked out professors was by showing that those who claimed to help the poor seemed to always get rich on their schemes.