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'How To' Guide for Socialist/Communist Change: Public Education
Eagle Forum ^ | March 25, 2009 | Phyllis Schafly

Posted on 03/25/2009 11:27:00 AM PDT by This Just In

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Communist Goals (1963)

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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.

1 posted on 03/25/2009 11:27:00 AM PDT by This Just In
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To: This Just In
in 1951, proclaimed: "It is important that people who are to live and work together shall have a common mind — a like heritage of purpose, religious ideals, love of country, beauty, and wisdom to guide and inspire them."

My, how public schools and teachers unions have changed since 1951!


Are you kidding? It has not changed at all!! All they did was redefine each of the things in that list and replace them with liberal things. Beauty = tolerance, wisdom = social justice, religious ideals = environmentalism, etc. The whole point of government schools has ALWAYS been to crank out little carbon copy 'good citizens' that will not question the status quo. None of that has changed. Only the definition of what they think someone needs to be a 'good citizen' has changed.
2 posted on 03/25/2009 11:38:23 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: This Just In

Bump! For later reading. Thanks


3 posted on 03/25/2009 11:42:37 AM PDT by martian622 (The Revolution will be televised.)
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To: TalonDJ

It hasn’t changed, and it will never change. That is why I would never send any offspring of mine to public school.


4 posted on 03/25/2009 11:45:09 AM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: This Just In

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5 posted on 03/25/2009 11:49:21 AM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68 (CALL CONGRESSCRITTERS TOLL-FREE @ 1-800-965-4701)
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To: This Just In
The American Citizens Handbook was published from 1941 through 1968. It was full of moral references, Christian references and had scriptural passages. The story is the last 10,000 copies were ordered buried after the NEA decided they didn't like the book anymore.

Another key group was The Frankfurt School (of Marxist-socialism), which infiltrated Columbia U., which enjoined the NEA in a long-term plan to indoctrinate school children, to eventually pull the proper lever en-masse, which was done 11/04/08. Consensus-building and sensitivity training came from them.

Also, where did all the American-communists go after Joe McCarthy's work? Where have they been doing their thing?

6 posted on 03/25/2009 11:54:20 AM PDT by polymuser ("We have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!" (HRC))
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To: This Just In

I read #35 a bit too quickly. Thought it said, “Discredit and eventually dismantle FR.” Now THAT would be something worth getting up in arms against.


7 posted on 03/25/2009 11:57:18 AM PDT by Theo (Global warming "scientists." Pro-evolution "scientists." They're both wrong.)
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To: darkangel82

Add in the mandatory “volunteerism” the fascists are pushing, I see a huge exodus from our public schools.

If they win, they will push to outlaw or relentlessly harass home schooling.


8 posted on 03/25/2009 12:02:43 PM PDT by listenhillary (Rahm Emmanuel slip - A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.)
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To: listenhillary

Eventually it will get ugly. Really, really ugly.


9 posted on 03/25/2009 12:03:30 PM PDT by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: polymuser

You seem very knowledgeable. I have always been curious as to when and how the NEA began. Just a guess—the 1920’s?


10 posted on 03/25/2009 12:12:47 PM PDT by del4hope
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To: del4hope

From Wiki: NEA originated as NTA in 1857, became NEA in 1870, operating as a professional organization until it became a labor union in the 1960’s. Ah, the continuing legacies of the 1960’s.


11 posted on 03/25/2009 12:22:53 PM PDT by polymuser ("We have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!" (HRC))
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To: polymuser

“...where did all the American-communists go...?”

Hollywood, politics, ACLU, unions, academia.


12 posted on 03/25/2009 12:44:56 PM PDT by This Just In (Support Christian Homeschoolers)
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To: polymuser

mmmm...combine that with June 25, 1962.

I will have to look at how the time frame coincides of the labor union formation with the formation of the DOEd. I do know that the NEA did influence the start of that department. I believe that was during the LBJ adm.


13 posted on 03/25/2009 12:45:44 PM PDT by del4hope
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To: TalonDJ; metmom

That’s why this writer and others who want to “reform” the system are just doomed to disappointment. It is not a system that should be reformed because the best we’ll get is a little model-citizen factory cranking our Good Little Patriots. Whether the values are ours or Obama’s, that’s not right.

Metmom, ping for your list.


14 posted on 03/25/2009 12:49:18 PM PDT by JenB
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To: TalonDJ

“None of that has changed”

Bulls!#@!!

Carbon copies my eye.

Despite a diverse society, there was a common sense of respect, loyalty, and civility. Narcissism was probably thought to be some kind of a medical specialist.


15 posted on 03/25/2009 12:49:57 PM PDT by This Just In (Support Christian Homeschoolers)
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To: JenB; TalonDJ

“That’s why this writer and others who want to “reform” the system...”

Good thing our Founding Fathers weren’t so weak minded and held a defeatist attitude such as yours.

America was built on the back so strong minded individuals such as Phyllis Schafly and the like, and not by armchair quarterbacks and naysayers whom reap the rewards of those with solid conviction and character.


16 posted on 03/25/2009 12:53:19 PM PDT by This Just In (Support Christian Homeschoolers)
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To: This Just In

Have you ever read John Tyler Gatto’s work? It’s available free online.

The American education system is not an organic descendant of the Laura Ingalls Wilder one-room schoolhouse. It is an entirely foreign construct, mostly Prussian with some English influences, imposed upon us in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, intended to produce compliant factory works, who are not truly educated, merely equipped for their drudgelike duties.

I will not waste my time and resources trying to reform a system that is so entirely contrary in design and purpose from what I believe is right. Doing so is like re-siding a house that has been infested with termites and mold. It might look good for a little while, but the true problems are still there, and will be back before you know it.


17 posted on 03/25/2009 1:01:17 PM PDT by JenB
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To: This Just In
Good thing our Founding Fathers weren’t so weak minded and held a defeatist attitude such as yours.

Our founding fathers would appalled at the idea of a government controlled, union run education system.
18 posted on 03/25/2009 1:30:50 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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Why do you bother supporting homeschooling, as your tagline claims, if you think being anti government run schools is ‘defeatist’?
19 posted on 03/25/2009 1:33:10 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: JenB

I would agree that the education system cannot be reformed.

Education should be left to the private sector.


20 posted on 03/25/2009 1:37:54 PM PDT by This Just In (Support Christian Homeschoolers)
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