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“There is little difference between Socialism and
Communism. Both control resources without private enterprise. In both,
government has the first and last say on everything.”
– Barack Obama
Those of us who lived through the horrors of the Cold
War, ran for cover under our desks when the air raid sirens were tested, and
witnessed Cubans on makeshift rafts navigating the Florida Straits escaping to
the U.S. can’t fathom why anyone would choose socialism over capitalism? When
we see socialist, Bernie Sanders winning primaries and his largest group of
supporters is age 30 and under, we wonder how can history repeat itself so
easily, in our own lifetime; in a country like ours?
We were reminded daily of the evils of communism and
socialism by parents, teachers, ministers and rabbis. TV reporters fed us a
constant diet of stories about the struggles and hardships behind the Iron
Curtain. Everyday our newspapers would show graphic images and report on the
tragedies and cruelty that those living within the Eastern Bloc suffered at the
hands of despotic leaders. We feared this would happen to us if we did not
vigilantly defend our own liberty here on American soil.
Marxist Vladimir Lenin knew communism would be a tough
sell so he turned to socialism to achieve communism. By convincing the gullible
and jaundiced they’d collectively control all economic and social resources, he
created a new brand of communism – Leninism. In his “State and Revolution”, he
wrote “socialism is just the lower phase of communism used to facilitate true
communist puerility which is its highest phase. Karl Marx believed socialism
was the easiest road to pure communism.”
In the early 1960s during the height of the Red Scare,
political theorist Cleon Skousen released a shocking book, “The Naked Communist.”
It became an immediate best seller around the globe. It was even used as a
reference book for the CIA, the FBI, and the White House. It found its way into
homes throughout the U.S. and overseas. It was excerpted and translated into
seven languages.
Cleon Skousen was an FBI agent, and an adviser to
presidents and universities about the dangers of Communist infiltration into
our institutions. He lectured in every state in North America and over 60
countries. He was a scholar of law and history and specialized in the U.S.
Constitution. In his book he reveals how communists pacifically take control of
a nation with progressive engineering.
“Communists possess the fortitude and knowledge to slowly
reengineer society.”
– Cleon Skousen
Critics considered Skousen a radical whose theories were
extreme since he used analogies and hypotheticals to exemplify how communists
and socialists work. Yet this was necessary at a time few Americans realized
how they had infiltrated our nation. He illustrates how they maneuver their way
into society through the youth of a nation with socialism, which is the
precursor to communism. When society one day realizes “how it is now”, is not
“how it was” back then, and how it “will be in the future” there is no turning
back because their youth will now consider totalitarianism status quo.
His insightful rendering unveils the deceptive nature of
communism. It contains a quintessence of over a hundred treatises on socialism
and communism written by Marx, Lenin and other socialists. He details how
communists and socialists strategically infiltrate an existing political party
to achieve their objectives and spread propaganda through spoon-fed information
to the media. This was the first time anyone defined how people in capitalist
nations are persuaded to choose communism or socialism at the expense of their
liberty and freedom.
Skousen shocked America and the rest of the free world,
pointing out how easily this is done while few people are aware it is happening
to them.
“We must replace individualism with collectivism without
society knowing about it.”
– Vladimir Lenin
The book depicts the geopolitical strategy of the
Marxist–Leninist Soviets' plan to take control of all governments outside of
the Communist Bloc. With the Cold War raging, this book filled an urgent need
to explain modern totalitarianism. People learned the tactics communists and
socialists use in political parties, unions and patriotic organizations to gain
political and social influence in a society. They assume key leadership roles
and slowly introduce anti-democratic dogma and leftist ideology.
Skousen claimed history is proof communists and
socialists stick to their tried and true basic and successful tactics within
set time-tables to reach their goals. He pointed out that they had already
invaded mainstream media and were weakening our nation with passive acceptance
of socialism and communism. A key stratagem is to destroy the family to impair
the bonding unity that creates and molds character and morality. This will also
diminish their interest in Judeo-Christian religions.
His penetrating look into geopolitical future contained
45 communist goals to turn capitalism into a communist-socialist state. We can
safely say 40 of them have been achieved in America under the guise of
liberalism. Jimmy Carter handed them education when he created the Department
of Education in 1979. Now progressives use public schools to indoctrinate our
youth with Common Core teaching materials.
“It is essential that we educate the educator so we
control how they educate others.”
– Karl Marx
Under Obama’s extensive government social engineering,
federalists control our healthcare and support a large underclass. Parents
today surrender their siblings to government approved pre-K education. This has
dramatically affected family bonding and moral development with our youth. It
has limited the augmentation of their Judeo-Christian faith education at home
and in schools. As a result of this, fewer young Americans attend weekly family
church services than at any time in history.
Cleon Skousen wrote, “A communist’s most vital tool is
the media.” Socialists invaded our news rooms during the Cold War to spread
acceptance of communism and have moved public opinion to the left since. They
skew news on elections to elect leftists and excoriate conservative
politicians. They pre-sold Barack Obama and facilitated his re-engineering of
our socio-economic architecture.
They have done everything in their power to destroy the
successful presidency of Donald Trump.
Whether Cleon Skousen was an insightful political analyst
or psychic clairvoyant, his message was perspicacious. He critiqued the formula
communists and socialists use to take control of a nation. It’s daunting to see
how many of their goals are etched in the U.S. today.
Goal 15 was to “Capture a political party.” We need not
look any further than the presidency of Barack Obama and the rise of socialism
within the Democratic Party today to validate Cleon Skousen’s warnings 60 years
ago. He told us this will happen in America if we fall asleep at the wheel as
guardians of our democracy.
Marx told us, “Theory is capable of gripping the masses
as soon as it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem as soon
as it becomes radical.” This is what the liberal controlled media has done to
our political environment, and we have bought into this without cognition.
We’ve taken their bait, hook, line and sinker. And now they are ready to finish
the job next election.
"We cannot expect the Americans to jump from
capitalism to communism, but we can feed them small doses of socialism, until
they awake to find they have true communism."
– Nikita Khrushchev
Contributing Columnist William Haupt III is a retired
professional journalist, author, and citizen legislator in California for over
40 years. He got his start working to approve California Proposition 13.
