Posted on 06/26/2015 6:25:30 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW
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:
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, policy-making 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.
That infamy won’t be “forgotten on the internet” any time soon.
As others have said, the “goals” certainly seem quite prophetic.
I’ve also seen and heard lists of those publicly espousing Communism in the 1960s. And while I haven’t hunted down the quotes for each of those names, I do mentally check them off when I find supportive statements here and there.
John Lennon hemmed and hawed both sides of the coin.
I seem to recall Mick Jagger talking about heading out to some riot/protest in 1968 (and I’m not referring to the lyrics of some song).
Scratch the surface of the so-called anti-war movement and you’ll find proud Communists who embraced Soviet, Cuban, and North Vietnamese Communism. They weren’t anti-war. They never demanded the North Vietnamese end their aggression nor did they criticize their genocide of the opposition “after the war”.
Yes, leftist “anti-war” movements are always one-sided; the non-leftist entity has to stop the war and surrender, but not the leftist “freedom fighters”.
FWIW, if you want to look into other published works of Skousen, you’ll find some remarkably nutty stuff.
For instance, the 10 Tribes of Israel are still a discrete group and live under the ice in Antarctica. And the Saxons of England were really “Isaac’s sons” and therefore Jews. Which of course ties in with his Mormon beliefs. They find Jews in the oddest places.
He also believed Eisenhower was a concious agent of Communism.
IOW, the guy was a nut. Doesn’t mean he was wrong about Communism, of course, but I would certainly not consider anything he says enhanced in credibility by his saying it.
Figured you’d attack the man based on his religious beliefs and/or what liberals said about him.
I haven’t done much digging (and his mormon beliefs don’t hold credibility with me) but he was a witness within FDR’s government. And some on the left still want to deny any Soviet espionage within the State Department, Executive Branch, etc. even with KGB files opened to review.
I’ve seen a lot of socialist justice warrior attacks on the writings of dead white (American) males. Some of the observations still hold water.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/05/the-homophobia-of-jack-paar.html
Ugh. Sorry! I dunno why it posted like this.
Skousen’s religious beliefs were considered bizarre and extreme by the Mormon Church itself, which prohibited official church meetings or publications from promoting them.
All I’ve ever said here is that the list is intentionally misleading as to provenance, which is indisputably true. I don’t believe in fake but accurate, even when it is by chance actually accurate.
Thanks. That certainly lists what we’ve been seeing!
Skousen’s personal beliefs are irrelevant. Trying to imply that they influenced his work while at the FBI or when he was writing his book is specious.
Do you apply the same standard to books written by liberals? Or are the author’s personal beliefs only irrelevant if you agree with him?
You did not say religious. You said personal.
As far as liberals having religious beliefs, perhaps you might want to take a look at the current pope.
Parsing language now. Significant difference between the personal beliefs of Skousen and those of liberals—the latter of whom bring such into every aspect of their lives the whole time and have no religious aspect besides.
As for “the current pope”, I would not call his liberal dogma “religious”.
It’s really in the Record, but there’s no evidence that it actually came from communists. As far as anyone can find, it was made up by Cleon Skousen in his 1958 book The Naked Communist.
If nothing else, it proves he could see into the future.
You’re welcome.
The thing that makes me bang my head against the wall is that the “termites” (known communists, subversives, & “activists”) were able to entrench themselves in academia & government/ quasi-government organizations (Pah. I know of no “NGO” that doesn’t have a political agenda attached to it. The credits after almost every PBS program are a laundry list of anti American foundations & individuals.).
There were FBI records.
The president is up to his neck in communists & anti American terrorists- people who actually blew stuff up, multiple times, who have called & are publicly calling for mass murder. WTH?
They took over MSM (TV) at it’s inception and influenced people. Combine that with, as you said, academia and we didn’t stand a chance to fight them.
Yes, they did this via a culture war. Looking back, you can see where it happened with tv (mid to late 70s, imo)
I’ll never accept that. Making a grave mistake is not the same as losing a battle. Right now (& for too long), we are handing it over to them nearly by default. You (general “you”, not you, personally, DJ) cannot deal with dishonorable people in good faith. They’ll use it to destroy you. Which they’ve almost accomplished.
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