Communism's Goals Have Taken Hold of America

by

          Zeno Potas

       Progressivism was the word used in the early twentieth century to denote Socialist ideas of big government while stopping just short of Communism. The word Progressivism is still used today in the West as a proxy for a Socialist form of government. Many believe that the end result of a Socialist state is, inevitably - Communism, the loss of all individuality and freedoms. In this country it would be the end of the Constitution.

But could it happen - now? 

 

       In The Art of War, written 2500 years ago, Sun Tzu said, "Fighting on a battlefield is the most primitive way of making war. There is no art higher than to destroy your enemy without a fight by subverting anything of value in his country." 

 

       On January 10, 1963, the House of Representative and later the Senate began reviewing a document entitled "Communist Goals for Taking Over America." It contained an agenda of 45 separate issues that, in hindsight was quite shocking back then and equally shocking today. As in the book The Naked Communist written by FBI agent Cleon Skousen, it is a series of Communist goals for incapacitating the US without firing a shot. 

 

       The list of 45 Communist goals contained in the book was read into the Congressional Record (Appendix, pp. A34-A35) by U.S. Congressman Albert S. Herlong, Jr. of Florida, on January 10, 1963

Here, in part, are some key points listed in that document.

• 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.

• Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats, white slave owners, who had no concern for the "common man."

• Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

• Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

• 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 Progressive party line in textbooks.

• Gain control of all student newspapers.

• Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are counter to Progressive views.

• 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 for propaganda purposes.

• 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.

• Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

• 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."

• 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."

• Support any Progressive movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

• 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.

      Now, I am not saying that the U.S. is under some kind of Communist control, but what I do find frightening, is of the issues listed, all of them have come to pass. Remember this was in January 1963. The year in now 2017 and the number of these "goals" that have completely engulfed our society should chill every Constitutionalist to their bones.