Okay, so this blog has been a long time coming. When writing the Marxism chapter in the Mama Bear Apologetics book, I promised to publish the list of communist goals, and I failed to do so. But I just received another email reminding me of my promise, so better late than never.
I was originally introduced to this list by Carol Swain, a former Vanderbilt University professor, who spoke at the Ratio Christi Symposium. At each of the tables, she provided a list of the communist agenda as recorded by W. Cleon Skousen in 1958.
1958, people!! If this list isn’t prophetic, I don’t know what is. I remember my mouth hanging open as I read through each of the items. The list she had given us was a printout from the 1958 book called The Naked Communist — a book which later informed much of my Marxism chapter. I had always assumed that Marxism/communism was just a political theory. I had no idea how deep the roots went when it came to morality. In fact, you can see in an interview with former KGB operative Yuri Bezmenov, demoralization (i.e., eroding Judeo-Christian morals) is step 1 for Marxism. Why? Because once a society is demoralized, “Exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him.” Sounds a whole lot like Romans 1:18-32. With demoralization, our minds become futile.
While the list from The Naked Communist starts out all political sounding, about halfway down, we start getting to the meat and potatoes of what exactly the moral aims are according to communism. Remember the quote attributed to Adolf Hitler, “How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.” So, if you want to govern a people who will not give you pushback, you start by eroding traditional morality. Paul warned us about it, and contemporary leaders are hoping that we don’t read Romans too literally. If we did, maybe we wouldn’t be rolling over so easily as a nation.
What is the Naked Communist?
The book The Naked Communist was written by FBI special agent W. Cleon Skousen. In it, he distilled decades of research that described the rise of communist powers and presented the current communist agenda. His list of 45 goals has become legendary, to the point of being officially read and recorded in the 1963 Congressional Hearing.
Now, we at Mama Bear like to mostly stay out of politics. Our commander-in-chief is Jesus Christ, and out of submission to Him, we submit to whoever is in government authority. But Marxism (communism) is not just political. As we described in the Mama Bear Apologetics book, it is deeply ideological, and in many ways religious, in its attempt to explain the world in secular terms. I promised in the book that I would include the communist agenda as recorded at the 1963 Congressional record. So here it is. I’ve bolded the ones that were of particular concern to me — namely items 24-42.
[From The Naked Communist, by W. 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. Using the phrase 'civil rights' to basically shoehorn any agenda through? Predicted in 1958. #nakedcommunist #marxism #demoralization Click To Tweet
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. [I can verify that this happens in higher education, and when you read the rest of the list, you’ll see it’s prevalent in elementary/middle/high school sex-ed and history classes, as well.]
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. Protect porn as 'free speech?' Predicted in 1958. #nakedcommunist #marxism #demoralization Click To Tweet
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” [i.e., this basically predicted the rise of “social justice”].
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.” Take away prayer in schools? It happened like four years later. #nakedcommunist #marxism #demoralization Click To Tweet
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. [Remember all the huballoo from BLM who had on their website to ‘disrupt the western prescribed nuclear family’? Yup. Marxist agenda. They have since removed it after everyone called them out on it.] 'Disrupting the Western prescribed nuclear family' and pushing for no-fault divorce? Predicted in 1958. #nakedcommunist #marxism #demoralization Click To Tweet
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. [All the protests that you’ve noticed in 2020 and before…]
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.
Sources
Skousen, W. Cleon, The Naked Communist (Salt Lake City: The Ensign Publishing Company, 1962), 259-62. (This was originally published in 1958, but my copy is from 1962.)
Herlong, Albert S. Jr. (January 10, 1963), “Current Communist Goals” (PDF), Congressional Record, 109 (22), A34–A35^
Microfilm: California State University at San Jose Clark Library, Government Floor Phone (408)924-2770 Microfilm Call No.: J 11.R5 Congressional Record, vol. 109. 88th Congress, 1st Session Appendix A1-A2842 Jan. 9-May 7, 1963 Reel 12.
* Previously published at Communist Goals 1963 Congressional Record, Aug. 15, 2017.
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You should highlight #35
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
Lots of communists in the GOP right now!
You really are clueless … aren’t you …
Your observations appear to be well founded, there are a couple republicans that do indeed want to dismantle the Fbi. However, even though the fbi is an obstacle to the communists it does indeed have some flaws like any human institution, and there have been a few condemning actions like suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story dismantling it entirely seems like an ludicrous idea.
Although if the FBI is not carefully watched it might come to their advantage
“So, if you want to govern a people who will not give you pushback, you start by eroding traditional morality.”
Like voting for a man who openly brags about grabbing women by their private parts? Pretty sure that’s eroding traditional morality.
“it is deeply ideological, and in many ways religious, in its attempt to explain the world in secular terms.”
This one really sent me. “By attempting to describe the world in non-religious terms, this is religious.” Your back must be in agony from that stretch. Where to even begin. If you ever took a philosophy, sociology, medical ethics, or literary theory class, I would LOVE to have a coffee with your former instructors. I’m sure you passed, of course, as all you need to pass a college course these days is a pulse. But I guarantee this kind of logic led to many an hour of tipsy giggling amongst colleagues for your professors.
I do agree that many of these goals have been achieved, though not in the way you seem to imply.
Which is puzzling, as the all-knowing savior presumably keeps his sheep informed when they’re incorrect. Oh, what’s that? God and Jesus don’t provide fact-checking services?
He warned you a False Prophet™ would appear. Unfortunately, very few of you seem to realize you voted for him. Twice.
The only people trying to “dismantle the FBI” are the politicians supporting the treasonous attack on our capital and those who instigated it…AKA, the people you vote for. (Before you “are you just ASSUMING who I voted for?!” me, ask yourself–was I right?)
If you switched the role of white Christians in this little thought exercise of yours with Black Muslims, somehow I get the sense that you’d be quite comfortable with prayer being removed from school. After all, that’s pushing Muslim ideology onto your Christian child! Separation of church and state is there to protect your kid from being radicalized by religious ideology! Unless that religious ideology is Christian, of course. Then it gets a free pass.
Why do you think the rest of us want you Christians to STFU about prayer in school? Because it has no place there, nor does religion have any place in my uterus, nor in science, nor in law, nor in any of the other plethora of places you evangelical WASPs are so desperately determined to force it.
I don’t want trans crap taught to my kids at school, either. I DO want them to learn critical race theory, because that’s a part of our country’s history, not made up Jesus lore nor made-up “gender science.” I don’t want my kids to be forced to pledge allegiance to the flag, god, or anything else but EDUCATION, which is the point of school. Well, that and learning how not to get shot by the guns Republicans went out of their way to ensure could just waltz into your school and kill you. School’s about that, too. But mostly the education part.
As for the FBI? It’s doing its job. You’re supporting the party that’s trying to dismantle it for daring to treat a former American president–AKA a civilian–equal to any other civilian. If you had nuke codes sitting in your office, you’d be lucky to make it out of the raid alive, let alone untouched. If he’s got nothing to hide, why was it hiding?
So many of you worry for the souls of us heathens, yet you spout more dangerous, factually incorrect, harmful ideology than fifteen atheists combined. Seek help. And not from Sky Daddy.
SaneMama, It must really suck being such a miserable cul-de-sac Karen.
Wow, if you had read the goals Sanemama you would see that you are a product of that system. I’ll pray for you.
first of all, are you implying that trump bragged about that kind of behavior? Can you give me evidence? As for explaining how the world works being religious, many atheists come up with very crappy conclusions for explaining things without God, The universe just ‘popping’ into reality, or primitive microbes just appearing out of nowhere.
Also you seem to imply that God should inform us of everything about everything, of course, we are flawed humans with a separation from God, because of which we cannot survive in God’s complete presence, because He destroys all sin in His presence, because of his nature, not by choice. So as an act of mercy we were separated from Him temporarily until we are cleansed of our sinful natures. Because of that God cannot be right next to our ears, informing us of all our faults and errors all the time.
Why do you believe that Donald Trump is a false prophet, he is a flawed human who has made costly mistakes in the past but that does not make him a false prophet. And why do you think that the author supports Trump? You did respond to the hypothetical question, and let me tell you, I never voted in my life. As for Muslim prayer in schools, Christian kids don’t randomly explode. Also, you are assuming that Muslims are black and Christians are white, doesn’t that make you a little racist? The race of believers in Islam or Christianity, Jesus was kind towards the Jews, the Gentiles and the Samaritans.
You say that Christianity has no place in school, or science, or what you claim is a uterus.
The Lord has created all those things, and naturally He should be Lord over it. The fact of His existence and Lordship is such an objectively verifiable truth, if not, why does anything exist in the first place? Why is the universe so complex? Why is there life? Why is there goodness at all?
While the Bible does not say anything about critical race theory, it is easy to see many of its flaws. It is possible for a Christian to support critical race theory, just like more than one denomination is valid. Critical race theory is a topic that perhaps could be taught in school, but it’s complexity and necessity for more than one perspective on it makes it a difficult topic to teach to five year olds.
As for the comment about guns, that is clearly a pathos statement, do you suggest that all guns should be confiscated? Or do you suggest a less drastic approach? Guns are not killing by themselves, there are more guns than people in the U.S. which means we would all be dead. And there are legitimate reasons for owning a gun, not everyone starts a school shooting, and a good many shootings are stopped by a good person taking out the shooter by, you guessed it, a firearm.
If more police were around schools than the chances of a school shooter getting in or lasting long enough to take a life drastically decreases. Name one republican policy that makes it easier to start a school shooting. The fbi is a necessity for America, and yet it has its flaws, terrible things were done to innocent lives because the fbi and the cia stepped out of line.
I and not saying that the mar a lago incident is the worst case. However, there appear to be flaws in the method of confiscation, there were no lawyers or anyone else present during that time, so that could have planted anything in there, hypothetically. As for the hiding just about everyone and their brother has a safe, and there does need to be substantial evidence for the confiscation for it to fall under anything other than unlawful search and seizure. As for the nuclear codes, does it pertain to the nuclear codes?
Sky Daddy? It’s funny how accurate and normal facts can seem silly when described with silly words, observe. Mathematics? Confusing number magic. Biology? Primitive biological bits Daddy.
Also, God is not literally in the sky, just like math isn’t magic and hell isn’t in the center of the earth, it’s metaphorical,
Wow, if you had read the goals Sanemama you would see that you are a product of that system. I’ll pray for you.
I Remember in high school being told how socialism is the best form of government. My argument to my teacher was, how come every time in history people suffer under that form of government. His response was it wasn’t run right. I seen first hand how my fellow students were getting indoctrinated. It’s way worse in college. THE JEDI MIND TRICK ONLY WORKS ON THE WEEK MINDED!
I love that you put this together as I have this book and wanted to post this on my social media pages but as a Christian, I have a real problem with this statement that you made and I hope that you amend it: “Our commander-in-chief is Jesus Christ, and out of submission to Him, we submit to whoever is in government authority.” Jesus would command us to stand up to injustices and our Constitutional Republic is by the people and for the people — our legislators work for us … we are THEIR boss, not the other way around. Our nation is in this mess in large part because “The People” have been sleeping at the wheel and have not been paying attention to what our elected officials, who REPRESENT THE PEOPLE THAT ELECTED THEM, have been doing.