Sun Tzu said: - one who knows them is victorious, one who does not know them is not victorious.

[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.  Tribute
       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 from seizing
       jurisdiction [over domestic problems.  Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and
       individuals alike.

Sounds awfully familiar; Even more true today than in 1963.

United States Senator Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy (Republican from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957) hit it on the mark.  Noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere.

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