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The Naked Communist (1958)

de W. Cleon Skousen

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"A timely update to the phenomenal national bestseller. Soon after its quiet release during the height of the Red Scare in 1958, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom exploded in popularity, selling almost two million copies to date and finding its way into the libraries of the CIA, the FBI, the White House, and homes all across the United States. From the tragic falls of China, Korea, Russia, and the UN, to the fascinating histories of Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentley, and General MacArthur, The Naked Communist lays out the entire graphic story of communism, its past, present, and future. After searching unsuccessfully for a concise literature on the communist threat, W. Cleon Skousen saw the urgent need for a comprehensive book that could guide the American conversation. So he distilled his FBI experience, decades of research, and more than one hundred communist books and treatises into one clarifying, readable volume that became a touchstone of American values and earned praise from the likes of President Ronald Reagan, Glenn Beck, and Ben Carson. Lauded by one reviewer as "the most powerful book on communism since J. Edgar Hoover's Masters of Deceit," this text draws a detailed picture of the communist as he sees himself: stripped of propaganda and pretense. Readers gain a unique insight into the inner workings of communism--its appeal, its history, its basic and unchanging concepts, even its secret timetable of conquest. Among the many questions The Naked Communist answers are: * Who gave the United States' nuclear secrets to the Russians? * How did the FBI fight communism after it was forced underground in 1918? * Why did the West lose 600 million allies after World War II? * What really happened in Korea? * What is communism's great secret weapon? * What lies ahead? * What can I do to stop communism? * How can we fight communism without a major war? Now updated for 2017, this edition includes a chapter on the forty-five Communist Goals, detailing how forty-four of those goals have been achieved in the U.S. already, as well as a chapter on the making of The Naked Communist, shedding light on how this book has sold almost two million copies. As relevant now as it was sixty years ago, Skousen's groundbreaking work provides a renewed understanding of one of the greatest threats facing America today."-- Publisher description.… (mais)
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Having read many books on Communism including works by Karl Marx and Engels, bios on Stalin and Mao Tse Tung, and numerous history books about Soviet Russia and China, I was totally shocked by the information presented in "The Naked Communist". W. Cleon Skousen, author of over 20 books and formerly employed by the FBI for over 15 years, does a good job in explaining the Communist origins, philosophy, goals, and methods of operation. In fact, a good portion of this information corresponds with the content of J. Edgar Hoover’s "Master’s of Deceit."

Skousen also excels in telling the Communist history, revealing a plethora of facts and details. I never before realized that Soviet Russia was directly responsible and personally orchestrated the takeover of ALL communist regimes. Skousen describes the nightmare of how Soviet Russia got their claws into countries by using their highly trained secret operatives and agents, schooled in the Lenin Institute - The Russian Communist Academy to takeover Manchuria and mainland China, North Korea, Cuba, and the Belgium Congo, aside from all the Russian satellite puppet countries of Eastern Europe.

And even more shocking, the USA allowed and actively helped some of it to occur, turning a blind eye and refusing to give moral support or send arms to the struggling victims in desperate need of assistance to prevent the takeovers. In fact, the USA actively discouraged other countries from taking sides. After WW II President Roosevelt negotiated a flawed UN agreement that literally gave Soviet Russia the freedom to control the organization. Within a mere 5 years during the Democratic administrations of FDR and Truman the Communists managed to swallow up and enslave more than 500,000,000 people in China, and another 100,000,000 were trapped behind the Iron Curtain.

As early as the 1950s members of Hollywood’s elite were blatantly voicing support for communism, expressing encouragement to Castro. Does it come as a shock to you that Lucille Ball was a card carrying member of the Communist party?

Of even greater concern is the fact that Communists are still gnawing away at the United States: infiltrating our government, education system, civil liberty organizations, and the media, preying on well-meaning liberals for support, and trying to ruin our traditions, culture, and freedom in an effort to achieve world domination, all a part of their planned New World Order. The Naked Communist was written in 1958 and W. Cleon Skousen was labeled a conspiracy theorist, but all his predictions for the future have come true: the destruction of historical monuments, the degradation of our Founding Fathers, the censorship of free speech, attempts to destroy our confidence in the police, and denigrating religion.

I finally understand why there was a “RED Scare” in the United States. What is now portrayed as bloated exaggeration of Communist threats during the late 1940s and early 1950s was indeed a legitimate life threatening concern for the USA. In fact, today there is a more imminent danger than ever before.

The author offers many meaningful quotes throughout this work. One example:
“If America’s wealth were spread around the world it would soon be dissipated, but if her system of free government and free enterprise were spread around the world, nations would soon find them to be perpetual producers of wealth.”

If the public education system truly values our freedom, perhaps our teachers should be assigning "The Naked Communist" as required reading material instead of pure propaganda like "White Fragility". ( )
  LadyLo | Dec 21, 2020 |
150, political philsophical analysis based upon communisit documents
  brendanus | Apr 13, 2019 |
An outstanding book which covers the movement from its founders to the 60's. One might think that the book would be outdated or prejudiced considering when it was written but I found it refreshing and informative. Major points in the communist doctrine are presented and rebutted. The history of the major players, although short, were informative and there are many points of history up through the Korean war that were enlightened upon. One would wonder why it took so long for socialism/communism to nearly destroy America considering how infiltrated our society and government has been since the russian revolution took place. When you read this book and you will find out just how far America has succumbed to the plans of the communists, it is truly sad. Our forefathers must be rolling in their graves. But, with this book in hand, no matter how dated its action plans for people are, you will begin to be able to spot the infiltration very easily for yourself and perhaps even do something about it. ( )
  Loptsson | Jun 12, 2010 |
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"A timely update to the phenomenal national bestseller. Soon after its quiet release during the height of the Red Scare in 1958, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom exploded in popularity, selling almost two million copies to date and finding its way into the libraries of the CIA, the FBI, the White House, and homes all across the United States. From the tragic falls of China, Korea, Russia, and the UN, to the fascinating histories of Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentley, and General MacArthur, The Naked Communist lays out the entire graphic story of communism, its past, present, and future. After searching unsuccessfully for a concise literature on the communist threat, W. Cleon Skousen saw the urgent need for a comprehensive book that could guide the American conversation. So he distilled his FBI experience, decades of research, and more than one hundred communist books and treatises into one clarifying, readable volume that became a touchstone of American values and earned praise from the likes of President Ronald Reagan, Glenn Beck, and Ben Carson. Lauded by one reviewer as "the most powerful book on communism since J. Edgar Hoover's Masters of Deceit," this text draws a detailed picture of the communist as he sees himself: stripped of propaganda and pretense. Readers gain a unique insight into the inner workings of communism--its appeal, its history, its basic and unchanging concepts, even its secret timetable of conquest. Among the many questions The Naked Communist answers are: * Who gave the United States' nuclear secrets to the Russians? * How did the FBI fight communism after it was forced underground in 1918? * Why did the West lose 600 million allies after World War II? * What really happened in Korea? * What is communism's great secret weapon? * What lies ahead? * What can I do to stop communism? * How can we fight communism without a major war? Now updated for 2017, this edition includes a chapter on the forty-five Communist Goals, detailing how forty-four of those goals have been achieved in the U.S. already, as well as a chapter on the making of The Naked Communist, shedding light on how this book has sold almost two million copies. As relevant now as it was sixty years ago, Skousen's groundbreaking work provides a renewed understanding of one of the greatest threats facing America today."-- Publisher description.

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