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Congressional
Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35
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:
[From
“The Naked Communist,” by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
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, etc.
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
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