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- Communist Goals (1963)
- Congressional Record--Appendix, pp.
A34-A35
- January 10, 1963
Nikita Khrushchev
- 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, policymaking
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, etcetera.
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.
How many of these things had already come to pass by the 21st century?
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