This Day in History: American conservative author W. Cleon Skousen was born on this day in 1913. A notable anti-communist and supporter of the John Birch Society, Skousen's works involved a wide range of subjects including the Six-Day War, Mormon eschatology, New World Order conspiracies, and parenting. His most popular works are The Five Thousand Year Leap and The Naked Communist.
In his book The Naked Communist Skousen lists 45 steps that Communists used to destroy a society.
Among those are:
Promote the United Nations as the only hope for mankind.
Capture one or both of the political parties of the United States.
Get control of the schools. Soften the curriculum.
Infiltrate the press. Get control of editorial writing, policy making positions, book reviews, and assignments.
Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures.
Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
Infiltrate and gain control of labor unions.
Discredit the Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs.
Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats.
Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expressions in schools that it violates “separation of church and state.”
Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motions pictures, radio and TV.
Present degeneracy and promiscuity as normal, natural, healthy.
Infiltrate the churches ad replace revealed religion with social religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a religious crutch.
Grant recognition and admission of Red China to the United Nations.
Permit free trade between all nations regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
Provide America aid to all nations regardless of communist domination.
U.S. acceptance of coexistence as a only alternative to atomic war.
Use student riots to ferment public protests.
Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship and a violation of free speech and free press.
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.
The main subject of the book is an alleged communist plot to overcome and control all of the world's governments through the implementation of social progressivism and by undermining American foreign policy through the promotion of internationalism and pacifism. The early chapters of the book cover the philosophy of Marxist and Soviet communism as well as some of the history of communist power in various countries including the Soviet Union and Cuba.
Reception
The book has been highly discussed by American conservatives Glenn Beck and Ben Carson, the latter of whom stated, "The Naked Communist lays out the whole progressive plan. It is unbelievable how fast it has been achieved."
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