Communist Goals - 1963 Congressional Record
Gus Hall, American Communist Party leader, reportedly said that he believed U.S. Communism will take hold only when the American people are convinced that it is too risky to be controversial (i.e. when "political correctness" becomes an officially institutionalized censorship program ... and we're getting very close, folks.
The time to speak out is now -- while the opportunity remains.
Look at this list and see if you don't agree: time is short UNLESS we act to change it, and save this country. What's your choice going to be?
Communist Goals - 1963 Congressional Record
Source: Congressional Record -- Appendix, pp. A34-A35 (in Law Library)
January 10, 1963
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:
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
- U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
ON GOING - U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
DONE - Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be
a demonstration of moral strength.
ON GOING - Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation
and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
DONE - Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
DONE - Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
ON GOING - Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
DONE - 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.
- Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
- Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
- 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.)
DONE - Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
ON GOING - Do away with all loyalty oaths.
DONE ie Pledge of Allegiance - Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
- Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
DONE (THE PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS) - Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American
institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
DONE - 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.
DONE (IN GENERAL THIS IS ONGOING) - Gain control of all student newspapers.
- Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
- Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy making positions.
- Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
DONE - 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."
DONE (THE ATTACK ON AMERICAN HISTORY) - Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to
promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
ON GOING (THE MADONNA EXHIBIT) - Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
- Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and
obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
ON GOING - Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal,
natural, healthy."
ON GOING - 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."
- 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."
DONE - 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.
DONE - Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish
aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
DONE - 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.
ON GOING - Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part
of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health
clinics, etc.
DONE (GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS) - Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
- Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
- Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
ON GOING (MANY FBI SCANDALS) - Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
ON GOING - Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
- Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies.
DONE (INS, PARK SERVICE ETC.) - Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but
psychiatrists can understand.
ON GOING (ELIAN GONZALES AS EXAMPLE) - Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means
of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals. Discredit
the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
DONE (FAMILY HAS BEEN DISCREDITED) - 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.
DONE - 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.
- Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
- Internationalize the Panama Canal.
DONE - Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.