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The Communist Takeover of America: 45 Declared Goals (Congressional Record, 1963)
"The Naked Communist"/Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 ^ | January 10, 1963 | Cleon Skousen

Posted on 01/20/2006 6:03:31 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Communist Goals (1963)

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35

January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

 

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:

[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.


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Worth posting again, just to see who comes out of the woodwork to tell us none of this is really happening.

There are no communist boogeymen, there are no communist boogeymen, there are no communist boogeymen...

1 posted on 01/20/2006 6:03:37 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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"Gentlemen, Comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about glasnost and perestroika and democracy in the coming years. These are primarily for outward consumption. There will be no significant internal change within the Soviet Union, other than for cosmetic purposes. Our purpose is to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep".

-- Mikhial Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union, to the Politburo in November of 1987.

2 posted on 01/20/2006 6:07:04 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Yes. The man really does have a dog named "Splash".)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Thank you. I have been looking for this to mix in picks from the "how Berkley are you" event.


3 posted on 01/20/2006 6:08:41 AM PST by WakeUpAndVote (Member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy since 1992!)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

This has beeen posted many times on FR but still right on the mark!


4 posted on 01/20/2006 6:11:49 AM PST by Buffettfan
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard; Blurblogger; backhoe; goldstategop; OldFriend

Ping.


5 posted on 01/20/2006 6:12:44 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March ("Republicans are pure evil." -- Dizzy Dean. Watch "Blood Trail" sometime, Dizzy.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Sounds like a plan or DemocRAT talking points to me.

The only question is if they have managed to gain control of BOTH Political Parties.

6 posted on 01/20/2006 6:12:56 AM PST by Agent Smith (Fallujah delenda est. (I wish))
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
I can picture this document laying in some hidden drawer in Howard Dean's desk with a red check next to items that have been accomplished.
7 posted on 01/20/2006 6:17:34 AM PST by Mulch (tm)
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To: Agent Smith

"The only question is if they have managed to gain control of BOTH Political Parties. "

Good point! (he said with a shudder from a sudden chill)


8 posted on 01/20/2006 6:18:18 AM PST by RoadTest (- - Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit. - Isaiah 27:6b)
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To: RoadTest; Agent Smith

It is a good point. And a chilling one.


9 posted on 01/20/2006 6:21:00 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Yes. The man really does have a dog named "Splash".)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

I was thinking about this the other day and wanted to send it out to friends and family. Thanks.


10 posted on 01/20/2006 6:21:15 AM PST by stevio (Red-Blooded American Male (NRA))
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Thanks for posting this, I bumped it the other day during the Alito hearings.
11 posted on 01/20/2006 6:23:42 AM PST by oxcart (Remember Bush lied.......People DYED... THEIR FINGERS!)
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To: lonevoice

worth a read


12 posted on 01/20/2006 6:24:22 AM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
This list is from the book "The naked Communist", read as an excerpt from that book into the Congressional record. The book was written by an ardent anti-communist. There has never, to the best of my knowledge, been any corroboration of the Kremlin's creation of these goals.

My guess is that these goals, written by Skousen, are his vision of what was happening in America at the time, and how these things could lead to Communism.

In fact, Soviet communism is dead as we knew it, and the Chinese are something other than Communists at this point.

I imagine these 45 goals as being similar to environmentalists retroactively writing a list of items (emissions, deforestation, etc) and claim that they would lead to an increase in hurricane activity after the hurricane seasons of the last several years, then holding their list up as proof that they were right because there has been an increase in hurricanes these past several years.

13 posted on 01/20/2006 6:26:39 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez; All

Good to see you, Luis. I was expecting you.


14 posted on 01/20/2006 6:30:55 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Yes. The man really does have a dog named "Splash".)
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To: Agent Smith

"The only question is if they have managed to gain control of BOTH Political Parties."

Looking closely, the RNC is partly controlled, but not entirely.


15 posted on 01/20/2006 6:33:46 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March ("Republicans are pure evil." -- Dizzy Dean. Watch "Blood Trail" sometime, Dizzy.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Strange how many of those "goals" are evident in today's US society. Many of them are "talking points" for the ACLU and without FreeRepublic, Rush, Sean and O'Reilly we wouldn't have the ability to see these threats to our way of life.

I've always believed that Clinton was groomed to be our first Communist President and he was to have presided over the US's surrender to Marxist/Leninist hegemony. However, Reagan won and he and the Commies lost. Ha! Ha!

Now we need to get Bin Laden!(and Pelosi, Reid, Durbin, Kennedy and the rest of their ilk.)

16 posted on 01/20/2006 6:36:29 AM PST by Young Werther
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard; All
The author is a prophet of his time...written in 1958.

#26 - In particular given the lastest cowboy flick, with 24 and 25 mixed in...schools, media, culture....

17 posted on 01/20/2006 6:36:32 AM PST by OnRightOnLeftCoast (Liberals are like a Slinky - It brings a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs)
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To: Blurblogger
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

[Can anyone say, "peaceniks"?]

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

[Globalists and Free Traders deserve special thanks.]

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

[We can thank both parties.]

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

[Free Traders deserve more thanks.]

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

[The peaceniks were considerable help.]

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

[Ah, the good ole UN]

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.
(Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

[Special thanks to Algar Hiss, his enabler -- Harry Truman, and all those helpful globalists out there.]

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

[I pledge of allegiance, to the Flag...!]

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

[Say what?]

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

[Achieved.]

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

[And look at the courts meddling in wars today! In the name of what? Civil rights!]

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

[The Good Ole Teachers' Union, blocking School Choice.]

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

[Largely achieved, although resistance mounts.]

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

[May I introduce to you, Animal House.]

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

[Achieved beyond their wildest dreams.]

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

[Achieved beyond their wildest dreams, with the recent exception of radio, which they probably brushed off as out-dated.]

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

[Modern Art and the NEA.]

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

[Modern Art and the NEA.]

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

[Thank you ACLU.]

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

[Barebutt Mountain, Janet Jackson, and Modonna's lesbo kiss with Britney.]

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

[Barebutt Mountain and Modonna's lesbo kiss with Britney. Sabotage Homo-Erotic, Sabotage Porno.]

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

[Evolutionism vs. the 6 Day Belief. Abortion controversy.]

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

[ACLU strikes again.]

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

[Living, Evolving Document theory.]

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

[Angry Old White Men.]

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

[Multiculturalism. No more 'English Only' attitude.]

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

[End the States' Rights.]

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

[Leaking senators opposed to strong defense-- DNC again.]

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

[Done.]

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

[Such as unconstitutionally firing FBI director, William Sessions, raiding FBI files, Ruby Ridge, and Waco perhaps?]

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

[And which party gets along well with unions?]

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

[Aren't big businesses modeled after the socialist structure?]

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

[Even NASA has it's own police force now.]

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

[Done.]

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

[Beyond their wildest dreams.]

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

[Partial success. Gee Dr. Spock-- you weren't a patsy, were you?]

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

[LA Riots.]

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

[Too complex for a quick response.]

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

[Partial success. Thank you Jimmy Carter.]

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

[The World Court is still trying. And note that a world court was foretold in Revelation.]
18 posted on 01/20/2006 6:45:09 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March ("Republicans are pure evil." -- Dizzy Dean. Watch "Blood Trail" sometime, Dizzy.)
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Soviet communism is dead as we knew it

Then how do you explain Katrina Vanden Heuvel?

19 posted on 01/20/2006 6:46:24 AM PST by capt. norm (Error: Keyboard not attached. Press F1 to continue)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

KILL A COMMIE FOR MOMMIE, DAMN PINKO'S.
WE SHOULD USE THEIR GUTS TO GREASE OUT TANK TREADS DURING OUR LIBERATION OF RUSSIA AND CHINA.

HOOHA!


20 posted on 01/20/2006 6:53:09 AM PST by hildy123 (Bring back Patton)
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