The Naked Communist

by W. Cleon Skousen

  2. The entire fabric of American security has been badly weakened by technical decisions of the Supreme Court in recent years. The only remedy is legislative action to restore these security laws.

  3. Federal legislators should continue to support the Congressional Committees which are under attack by the Communist Party and their fellow travelers. This attack is a top priority project of the Communist Party at the present time.

  4. Restore to Congressional committees the right to determine whether the questions asked of pro-Communist witnesses are pertinent.

  5. Restore to Congressional committees the same freedom to investigate Communists and pro-Communists that these committees have always had when investigating business and labor problems.

  6. Restore to the states the right to enforce their own anti-subversive laws.

  7. Restore to the Smith Act the provision which makes it a crime to teach or advocate the violent overthrow of the Government.

  8. Restore to the Smith Act the meaning of "organize" which includes organizational work done after 1945 so that Communist agents cannot hide behind the statute of limitations.

  9. Restore to the executive branch of the government the right to determine "reasonable grounds" and to dismiss security risks in both sensitive and non-sensitive positions of the Government.

  10. Restore to the states the right to exclude from public employment and education those who refuse to testify about their Communist activities and associates.

  11. Restore to the executive branch the right to question aliens awaiting deportation about subversive associates and contacts, and the right to deport aliens who are found to be Communists after entering the United States.

  12. Restore to the executive branch the right to deny passports to those who refuse to sign a non-Communist affidavit.

  13. Restore to the states the right to exclude from the practice of law those who have been members of the Communist conspiracy or who refuse to testify about Communist activities.

  14. Be alert to any attempt by left-wing forces to dismantle or emasculate the FBI.

  15. Put into force the excellent recommendations of the Commission on Government Security which were published in June, 1957, but have never been acted upon.

  16. Become familiar with the advantages of using powerful peaceful pressures against the USSR, especially in the economic and political fields.

  Suggestions for the Press

  1. Keep in mind the constant effort of the Communist apparatus to plant its agents in all mass communications media.

  2. Familiarize yourself with the current Communist line which appears earlier in this chapter. Watch for individuals who shift with that line -- often contradicting themselves to accommodate the latest zig or zag of party strategy.

  3. In fulfilling the task of exposing crime, corruption and inefficiency in the American culture, be careful not to destroy confidence in American institutions. Because the negative forces in our society are more likely to be "news" than the positive accomplishments, it is easy to over-emphasize the negative side and provide extremely damaging propaganda to the enemy.

  4. Run features on current issues which reflect a solid American interpretation of the problem. The Communist avalanche of literature is often compounded by a left-wing slant to the news on a syndicated wire which leaves the American point of view practically unexpressed. More and more newspaper editors are recognizing this problem and are doing something about it.

  5. Use quotations from American patriots for box stories and fillers.

  6. Develop a program of liaison with public officials so they will have an assurance of your ability to keep a confidence. It is desirable to have the press briefed on developments even though they may be confidential. Most officials start out with a desire to cooperate closely with the press, but they become secretive when distortions and premature releases weaken or destroy their capacity to get their job done properly.

  7. Some members of the press have the knack of detecting Communist influences in public life and have made excellent contributions by pointing these out. Temporarily, this action may not be popular, but it gives a newsman stature as events sustain his analysis. We need more analysts who are informed and sensitive to the techniques of the Communist apparatus.

  Suggestions for Ministers

  1. The churches became a major target for Communist-Socialist infiltration many years ago. These people were successful in capturing many key positions in a number of important religious organizations. Some religious leaders openly advocate and defend Communist principles. They are apologists for the Soviet Union and even advocate capitulation under threat of atomic war.

  2. Study Judaism, Christianity and Communism to a point where you can quickly detect the fallacies which some persons in high places disseminate from their pulpits.

  3. Develop a Bible-reading congregation.

  4. Make religion a practical, dynamic force in the lives of the people.

  5. Resist the erosion of the Modernists who seek to discredit the Bible and to define God as an imaginary non-reality. As we pointed out in the first chapter of this book, many of those who started out a century ago to attack the Bible and to destroy our religious culture were close associates of Karl Marx.

  6. Be alert to detect those who use "Social Christianity" to cover up the fact that they are not Christians at all.

  7. Watch for those who would use the principles of peace, brotherhood, tolerance, and Christian charity to obscure the conspiratorial aspects of Communist "peace." The peace of Communism partakes of the prison and the grave. Remind professional pacifists who have accepted the paralyzing peace propaganda of the Communists that the same Jesus who taught "love thy enemy" never advocated surrendering to him. The same Jesus who said, "Turn the other cheek" to avoid quarreling and bickering in the ordinary course of life, also said to take a sword to preserve life.11 The Jesus of Nazareth who cleansed the temple was demonstrating that Right deserves to be defended.

  8. If you come across those who labor under the misconception that Communism and Christianity have a common denominator, ask them to read the appendix in this book entitled, "Did the Early Christians Practice Communism?"

  9. Because of the counseling which ministers do, there are strenuous efforts to make inroads into the ministry. Be alert to the drive by certain analytical psychiatrists to have ministers accept their amoral philosophy. They opine those feelings of guilt and a sense of right and wrong cause mental illnesses. This entire concept is being discredited. There is far more mental health in the Judaic-Christian concept of resisting temptation and overcoming mistakes than ever emanated from the Freudian couch. I have prepared a rather comprehensive article on this subject, entitled, "Law Enforcement Looks at Mental Health," which appears in the professional police magazine, Law & Order, for March, 1961 {and also in this infobase}.

  10. In counseling students who are having difficulty reconciling the many conflicting views which they hear in school, you might refer them to the last chapter in this book which is designed to help the student recognize the ideological conflict now in progress. It is hoped that this material will help them find their way through the confusion of many voices so as to maintain both moral and intellectual integrity.

  11. Be careful to read books before you recommend them. Recently some church groups have been induced to recommend books which turned out to be filled with obscenity. This is an important part of the Socialist-Communist campaign to discredit religious culture. What technique could better serve their purpose than to have the churches themselves sponsor degenerate literature!

  12. Set up study groups on both youth and adult levels to study Communism. Have qualified and well informed persons serve as discussion leaders.

  The West Can Win

  With every citizen watching for an opportunity to strike a blow for freedom, the force of Communism can be halted, smothered, and then eliminated. This is our task. Without our tolerance and help the Communist empire would never
have become the second strongest power in the earth. Now we have the job of dismantling it. Nikita Khrushchev knows the pressures we could bring pouring down upon him if our people ever make up their minds to move.

  Any who may lack the courage for positive action might well recall the threat of Manuilsky which we have already quoted. He described Communist strategy for the period we are now passing through:

  "We shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record.... The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist!"12

  Today Communism is advancing on all fronts. Authorities say that if we let her feed on the West just a few more years it may be too late. How much better to send forth the message:"There is a way to stop Communism and do it without a major war!"

  If free men are willing to study the problem and move across the world in one vast united front, it is entirely possible for the human race to celebrate the close of the Twentieth Century with this monumental achievement:

  "Freedom in our time for all men!"

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  1. The full text of the Captive Nations Proclamation is contained in U.S. News & World Report, August 3, 1959, p. 87.

  2. U.S. News & World Report, August 3, 1959, p. 87.

  3. William W. Wade, The U.N. Today, H. W. Wilson Company, New York, p. 134.

  4. "The Case for Severing Relations with Soviet Rulers," U.S. News & World Report, December 17, 1954, p. 139.

  5. Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, 1904-1905, Vol. IX, p. 285.

  6. Whittaker Chambers, Witness, p. 210.

  7. On The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, Foreign Language Publishing House, Moscow, 1946, p. 59.

  8. From Nikita Khrushchev's letter to the Mexican Newspaper, Excelsior, February 28, 1958.

  9. Quoted in "Uncompromising Idealism," by David Lawrence, U.S. News & World Report, August 31, 1959, p. 104.

  10. W. Cleon Skousen, So You Want To Raise A Boy?, Doubleday, New York, 1962.

  11. Luke 22:36

  12. Quoted by Joseph Z. Kornfeder who was a student at the school. In a letter to Dr. J.D. Bales of Harding College dated March 7, 1961, Mr. Kornfeder said: "Enclosed is a copy of the quote you asked for. It is part of what he (Manuilsky) said to a group of senior Lenin School students at a conference held in Moscow, March, 1930, at which I, as one of the students, was present."

  Appendix A

  What Do Defenders of Communism Say?

  The voluminous literature of Communism contains bold and sometimes harsh answers to almost any question a student may care to ask. However, few students have an opportunity to meet anyone who will admit he is a well indoctrinated Communist, and few people have the time or inclination to read the technical, cumbersome documents of Communist lore. Therefore, the following symposium is designed to bring some of these answers together under a number of general headings.

  It will be observed that Communist propaganda sometimes contradicts these answers when a true statement of doctrine would prove embarrassing. However, the answers presented here are taken in most instances from the foremost exponents of Marxism and in all such cases represent unembellished, non-propaganda answers which teachers of Marxism pass along to their own followers.

  Peaceful Co-existence

  Student: "Do you think there is a possibility that the democracies and the Soviet can somehow co-exist?"

  Lenin: "The existence of the Soviet Republic side by side with imperialist states for a long time is unthinkable. One or the other must triumph in the end. And before that end supervenes, a series of frightful collisions between the Soviet Republic and the bourgeois states will be inevitable."1

  Official Statement: "The proletariat in the Soviet Union harbours no illusions as to the possibility of a durable peace with the imperialists. The proletariat knows that the imperialist attack against the Soviet Union is inevitable; that in the process of a proletarian world revolution wars between proletarian and bourgeois states, wars for the emancipation of the world from capitalism, will necessarily and inevitably arise. Therefore, the primary duty of the proletariat, as the fighter for socialism, is to make all the necessary political, economic and military preparations for these wars, to strengthen its Red Army -- that mighty weapon of the proletariat -- and to train the masses of the toilers in the art of war."2

  Student: "Why do you not go ahead and prove that Communism will work in your own country before trying to force it upon other nations?"

  Lenin: "Final victory can be achieved only on an international scale, and only by the combined efforts of the workers of all countries."3

  Stalin: "This means that the serious assistance of the international proletariat is a force without which the problem of the final victory of socialism in one country cannot be solved."4

  Student: "I am in favor of cordial relations between nations. Would you call me an Internationalist?"

  P.E. Vyshinsky: "At present the only determining criterion ... is: Are you for or against the USSR, the motherland of the world proletariat? An internationalist is not one who verbally recognizes international solidarity or sympathizes with it. A real internationalist is one who brings his sympathy and recognition up to the point of practical and maximum help to the USSR in support and defense of the USSR by every means and in every possible form."5

  Student: "I thought that during World War II the Communist leaders said they wanted to be friends with the United States. I hoped we could continue to be friends."

  Varga: "The fact that the Soviet Union and the greatly shaken capitalist countries showed themselves to be in one powerful camp, raged against the Fascist aggressors (during World War II), showed that the struggle of the two systems within the democratic camp was temporarily alleviated, suspended, but this of, course does not mean the end of the struggle."6

  Marshall Tito: "Our collaboration with capitalism during the war which has recently ended, by no means signifies that we shall prolong our alliance with it in the future. On the contrary, the capitalistic forces constitute our natural enemy despite the fact that they helped us to defeat their most dangerous representative. It may happen that we shall again decide to make use of their aid, but always with the sole aim of accelerating their final ruin."7

  Student: "In other words, you pretended to be our friends merely as a matter of expediency? Why would it not be to our mutual advantage to continue being friends?"

  Dimitry Z. Manuilsky: "War to the hilt between communism and capitalism is inevitable."8

  Student: "Then why do you even try to maintain peaceful relations with the West?

  Stalin: "We cannot forget the saying of Lenin to the effect that a great deal ... depends on whether we succeed in delaying war with the capitalist countries ... until proletarian revolution ripens in Europe or until colonial revolutions come to a head, or, finally, until the capitalists fight among themselves over the division of the colonies. Therefore, the maintenance of peaceful relations with capitalist countries is an obligatory task for us."9

  Student: "Do you think we should expect this "inevitable" conflict soon or far in the distant future?"

  Lenin: "To tie one's hands beforehand, openly to tell the enemy, who is at present better armed than we are, whether and when we will fight him, is stupidity and not revolutionariness. To accept battle at a time when it is obviously advantageous to the enemy and not to us is a crime; and those political leaders of the revolutionary class who are unable to 'tack, to maneuver, to compromise' in order to avoid an obviously disadvantageous battle, are good for nothing."10

  Student: "Perhaps this explains why you Communists continue building up a tremendous war machine while proclaiming that you want peace. Don't you think the West sincerely wants peace and would like to disarm?"

  Official Statement: "There is a glaring contradiction between th
e imperialists' policy of piling up armaments and their hypocritical talk about peace. There is no such contradiction, however, between the Soviet Government's preparation for defense and for revolutionary war and a consistent peace policy. Revolutionary war of the proletarian dictatorship is but a continuation of a revolutionary peace policy by other means."11

  Student: "But would not a so-called revolutionary peace policy by 'other means' simply be a demand for unconditional surrender under threat of extermination? Why do you perpetuate the myth of peaceful coexistence when you openly consider the West your enemy?"