~ How Much of the Following Would You
Say Has Occurred? ~
1958 “Current Communist Goals”
EXTENSION OF
REMARKS OF THE HONORABLE A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday,
January 10, 1963
Mr. Herlong: Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De
Land, Florida., 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, 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, and 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.
~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW
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