The Naked Communist

I picked this book up one day when I was quite bored, it was about the only interesting looking thing at my parents house. I haven't fully finished it yet(I only started reading it very recently but had to comment I liked it so much). I have found my eyes seriously opened. Growing up after the collapse of the Berlin Wall many of the things I learned in school especially my history classes were deeply skewed to make Communism not seem that bad. At times they even presented it as a good and noble thing. Luckily my parents taught me a few important things on why freedom is so important and how Communism was the exact opposite of freedom. However, I never had a full understanding of the Communist mindset and deep evil that this theology/ideology brought upon mankind. I wished we had read this book in history and not the textbooks that state how wonderful FDR's damaging policies were. Many of us forget we still face the communist threat today, even though it has taken on a more underground approach. If you want to better understand what makes America so great and why the Soviet Union truly was so bad, read this book. If you want a better understanding of why things have begun going so bad in America, this book is definitely for you.

This book was an eye-opener to the reality of communism and how it still is prevalent in political thought today. Even though this book was written 50 years ago, it parallels political thought and ideology of our political parties of today. This book is a great beginner to learning about the Russian Revolution and how communism thought evolved to become one of the greatest threats the Earth has ever faced. I recommend this book and "An Enemy Hath Done This" by Ezra Taft Benson, former Sec of Agriculture under Eisenhower. Communism isn't dead; it just goes by a different name.

I got this book as a gift from my brother, stemming from a conversation in which I said, `communism isn't really such a horrible thing, it's just not a practical form of government because greed and corruption will never allow people to share things equally'. I was given this book to correct that misunderstanding. And this book did that brilliantly. Skousen begins with a description of the Marxist mindset, delving even into the lives and times of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Marx's colleague and probably his only friend. Such insight lays the groundwork for understanding Communism and its reasons for being, which at best are selfish and demeaning. Using proto-communists' own words, whether from the Communist Manifesto or from correspondence among Marx and others, Skousen shows that the very philosophical foundations of Marxism and Communism are flawed and misleading. For myself, I began to understand that Marx's bitterness about his own station in life and his seeming inability to function in a competitive, capitalist world led him to a philosophy that claimed it could undo all the so-called iniquities of that capitalist world. Thus the myth of Communism as a great equalizer was born. Many people, myself once included, tend to think that that is all there is to Communism: everyone is equal and all possessions are shared equally. Others claim that the Bible provides support for this way of life and that the communal life described therein is an early example of Communism. Still others might claim that our founding fathers would have approved of Communism because of its purported equality. Skousen aptly debunks these and other misconceptions surrounding Communism and Marxist theory. He then moves on to describe, again using their own words, how Communism calls for violent, subversive acts in order to bring about revolution so that the common workers may seize power. Following this harrowing exposure of Communism is a blistering tour of late 19th and early 20th century history, detailing in particular the genesis and early activities of the Communist party in Europe and ultimately Russia. Let's just say that, having investigated some of the historical dates myself, I am surprised at how often the history of the Bolshevik revolution is sanitized and portrayed as some sort of liberation of the masses from the Tsars. I'm further surprised to learn that a democratic and limited monarchy was in the works to replace the oppression of the Tsars in the wake of Bloody Sunday when the Bolsheviks hijacked the revolution and drove the country toward Communism instead. How? All I can say is read the book. You might find some disturbing parallels to current events. Skousen then proceeds through the Depression and WWII years (a major eye-opener for me, and I'm a serious WWII history buff) and follows with a perspective of the early Cold War years that I found informative. All in all, this book is fundamental in understanding the true natur

W. Cleon Skousen's book 'The Naked Communist' is one of the finest works ever written on the subject of the communist conspiracy and should be read by everyone who loves the United States of America. Skousen does a wonderful job exposing the lies that communists have used since Karl Marx first wrote the communist manifesto. The book was written in the early sixties and it's amazing to see just how many predictions Skousen made that have come true. Skousen also points out the many flaws that has left the United Nations virtually powerless to stop aggressor nations. But perhaps the most interesting facts that Skousen sheds light on are the circumstances surrounding Roosevelt's concessions to Stalin and Truman's concessions to Mao. These 'Appeasers' made the same mistakes that Chamberlin made in his dealing's with Hitler in the 1930's. Many are quick to dismiss the spectre of Communism since the end of the cold war but America must remain ever vigilant and always beware the influences of the EXTREME left.

I read the 1962 publication of the Naked Communist. What is utterly shocking about this book is that in 1962 it published the current communist goals of that era, and if you look at it today 95% of them have been accomplished already!! What is utterly shocking, is that the outlandish concessions,( ie communisums fall) is part of the communist stradagey in 1962!! "Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack...To win we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will jump at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist."-- DIMITRY Z. MANUILSKY-- Stated in a lecture to the Lenin School on Political Warfare in Moscow 1931. This is found in the book. After reading THE NAKED COMMUNIST You will understand communist thinking and then you will be shocked that communist thought is alive here in the U.S., and how uneducated the public is about it!!!