Current Communist Goals (1958)

Restoring America PAC ^ | 1958/1963 | Cleon Skousen

[Remember_Salamis]

If you interpret the piece the way I do, it is much more official. All Skousen was doing was merely applying what Communism stood for and applying it to it's most effective ends: abusing the courts, breaking the church, and attacking families.

So in reality, they may have not been actual goals, but merely an assessment of how Communists would best achieve their goals. Skousen was an FBI analyst and was using common effective analytical techniques. I'm an intelligence analyst myself, and we use similar techniques to make assessments. The most common one is as follows:

Capability + Intent = Threat

You take what the enemy can do, combine it with the enemy would like to do, and you end up with a plausible "likely outcome". It seems as if Skousen was doing the same thing. The Communists had the capability to inflitrate open American institutions, and they would like to do so, so they WILL PROBABLY do so.

Still, the 45 goals are still chilling.

[Remember_Salamis]

Yes. See #36.

"36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions."

[John Robertson]

Thank you. Are you aware that there are likely millions of people who think this is gospel?

[John Robertson]

Thanks. But pls check #23.

[Indie]

Hell I'd like to send it to all RINOS in my family!!!!

The ones that have succeeded could not have done so if it were not with CINO/RINO help.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Faaascinating.

[Remember_Salamis]

#23 and #24 were removed by the moderator. What did they say???

[John Robertson]

That these points were created by a John Bircher and read into the Congressional Record by a whackjob congressman, back in the day.

[Remember_Salamis]

It doesn't matter because they were still written LONG AGO and were still a prediction. That cannot be denied.

[John Robertson]

Of course. No one's saying that they're not a prediction--and even, that they add up to a darned good prediction. My point was, many people have come across this "Communist" document and have been led to believe that it was originally authentic.

[Remember_Salamis]

Well, the congressional record says that it is and excerpt from "The Naked Communist".

[John Robertson]

Aaaargggghhh! The CR doesn't "say" it. A congressman read it INTO the CR. If I'm a congressman, I can read the names of all the members of my high school graduating class into the R, if I can persuade someone to give me the chance. Likewise, if I get the time, I can "read into" the R whatever I choose--it can be some harebrained creation of my own or someone else's, the DC phonebook, etc.

[calcowgirl]

Last night, I found a clipping of this same list in the FBI FOIA Abscam files.
The data was collected about 1982.
( http://foia.fbi.gov/abscam/abscam2f.pdf, p.3-4)

The list is eyeopening. Thanks for posting.

[dufekin]

Let's evaluate the progress.

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
FAILURE; DISPROVED BY RONALD REAGAN
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
UNSURE; DUBIOUS
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
FAILURE; DISPROVED BY RONALD REAGAN
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
IN PROGRESS
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
IRRELEVANT; THANK YOU GEORGE H-W BUSH, SR.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
ACCOMPLISHED, I THINK...
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
ACCOMPLISHED (RICHARD NIXON)
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.
FAILED, UNDER GEORGE H-W BUSH, SR., DESPITE SUCCESS
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
WILD SUCCESS, THANK WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
NOT RELEVANT; SOVIET UNION COLLAPSED; SATELLITES INDEPENDENT; GEORGE H-W BUSH, SR.
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.)
BEING REVEALED AS IRRELEVANT WITH EACH PASSING WEEK
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
SUCCEEDED--BUT COMMUNISM WIDELY DISPARAGED OUTSIDE CALIF.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
FAILED. REQUIRES CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
SUCCEEDED.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
SUCCEEDED UNDER GEORGE W. BUSH, JR. (DEMOCRATS BY 2004)
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
SUCCEEDED WILDLY SINCE LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
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.
LARGELY SUCCEEDED, BUT STUDENTS REJECT FROM EXPERIENCE
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
FAILED, BUT ONLY BARELY
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
FAILING NOW, DESPITE SUCCESS IN VIETNAM ERA
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
SUCCEEDED IN PART, BUT PRESS DIVERSIFYING BEYOND OLD MEDIA
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
SUCCEEDED IN 2 OF 3, BUT RADIO STILL MORE POPULAR
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."
LARGELY SUCCEEDED, BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND ART
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
UNSURE; PROBABLY MIXED
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
LARGELY SUCCEEDED BUT MAYBE NOT PERMANENTLY
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
SUCCEEDED WILDLY AND PERVASIVELY
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
LARGELY SUCCEEDED
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."
FAILED BADLY IN RED STATES DESPITE SUCCESS IN BLUE STATES
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."
SUCCEEDED OVERWHELMINGLY
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.
FAILED ENTIRELY, EXCEPT LEGAL SCHOLARS
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
FAILED; FOUNDERS HUMANIZED BY REVEALED IMPERFECTIONS
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.
FAILED WILDLY; RUSSIA EMPHASIZED AS MUCH AS INDONESIA
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
SUCCEEDED PARTIALLY, ESPECIALLY UNDER LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
COMMUNISTS NOW TOO IRRELEVANT TO MATTER.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
SUCCEEDED
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
FAILED DESPITE DECADES ON VERGE OF SUCCESS
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
SUCCEEDED, BUT UNIONS DESERTED BY AMERICAN PEOPLE
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
FAILED, BECAUSE OF PROFIT MOTIVE...I THINK
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].
SUCCEEDED OVERWHELMINGLY. SEE PRES. BUSH
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
SUCCEEDED--I THINK SO.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
WILL FAIL, I DO PRAY, DESPITE SHORT-TERM SUCCESS.
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.
LARGELY FAILED.
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.
FAILED ENTIRELY.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
SUCCEEDED OVERWHELMINGLY AND SOMEHOW UNFORTUNATELY.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
SUCCEEDED THANKS TO 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.
IN PROGRESS. SCARY.

[Calpernia]

ping

[Calpernia]

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

Interesting.

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Like this:

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[TapTheSource]

How many goals would you say they have attained?

[TapTheSource]

Thanks for the post, Calpernia.