The Naked Communist Quotes

“Take, for example, the problems of government. Marx and Engels would solve these problems by working for the day when they could eliminate government. Problems of morals would be solved by doing away with morals. Problems growing out of religion would be solved by doing away with religion. Problems of marriage, home and family would be eliminated by doing away with marriage, home and family. The problems arising out of property rights would be resolved by not allowing anyone to have any property rights.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“discerning men have described Communism as reversing and negating history. It has turned man against himself. Instead of solving the many complex problems of modern life, Marxism’s negative approach has simply resurrected primitive problems which past generations of struggling humanity had already succeeding in solving.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“One of the forgotten lessons of U.S. history is the fact that the American Founding Fathers tried Communism before they tried capitalistic free enterprise.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“FALLACY I—The first fallacy of Communism is its attempt to over-simplify history.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“When Karl Marx was asked what his objective in life was, he said, "To dethrone God and destroy capitalism!”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist

“He wanted a race of men who would no longer depend upon free will, ethics, morals or conscience for guidance. Perhaps, without quite realizing it, Marx was setting out to create a race of human beings conditioned to think like criminals.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“His Bolshevik revolution had not brought peace to Russia, but a terrible civil war in which 28 million Russians had lost their lives. The principles of socialism which Lenin had forced upon the people had not brought increased production as Marx had promised, but had reduced production to a point where even in normal times it would not adequately clothe nor feed half the people.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“Communism undertakes to replace Judaic-Christian morals with a complete absence of morals.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“In 1961, Skousen added to his book the 45 Communist Goals that laid out the steps aimed at ruining the culture of America. Their purpose was to abolish the Constitution and turn the United States into the “fold” of Marx’s theoretical one-world government. As of 2017, all but one of those 45 goals had been reached.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“Marx and Engels thought all of these things could be traced to one root -- private property. If they used a final revolutionary class uprising to overthrow private property, it would mean that class struggle would become unnecessary because there would be nothing to fight over!”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist

“It is interesting that after the Pilgrim Fathers tried communism, they abandoned it in favor of a free enterprise type of Capitalism which, over the centuries, has become more highly developed in the United States than in any other nation.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“Whittaker Chambers, who was an American Communist spy at the time, suspected that a horrible crime against humanity was being enacted in Russia. He later wrote: “The great purge was in the most literal sense a massacre.... This great massacre, probably the greatest in history was deliberately planned and executed.... Those killed have been estimated from several hundred thousand to several million men and women. The process took about three years, 1935-1938.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“International Communism stood for: 1. the overthrow of capitalism, 2. the abolition of private property, 3. the elimination of the family as a social unit, 4. the abolition of all classes, 5. the overthrow of all governments, and 6. the establishment of a communist order with communal ownership of property in a classless, stateless society.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“The letters of Karl Marx make frequent reference to the violent quarrels between himself and his parents; the letters from Karl’s parents complain of his egoism, his lack of consideration for the family, his constant demands for money and his discourtesy in failing to answer most of their letters. MARX”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“a stateless society (a civilization without a government) which Marx and Engels vigorously advocated would be an unorganized mob. It would be no society at all.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“To achieve his goal, Marx required two things: First, the total annihilation of all opposition, the downfall of all existing governments, all economies and all societies. “Then,” he wrote, “I shall stride through the wreckage a creator!” The second thing he needed was a new kind of human being.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“In 1885 a U.S. citizen, Andrew D. White, returned from a tour of duty as attaché in the American Embassy at St. Petersburg and described the Russian situation as follows: “The whole governmental system is the most atrociously barbarous in the world. There is on earth no parallel example of a polite society so degraded, a people so crushed, an official system so unscrupulous.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“In concluding this discussion of the basic fallacies in Communism we should perhaps make a summary comment on the most significant fallacy of them all. This is the Communist doctrine that problems can be solved by eliminating the institution from which the problems emanate. Even Marx and Engels may have been unaware that this was what they were doing, but the student will note how completely this approach dominates every problem they undertook to solve.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“Communist agitators have done everything in their power to fan the flame of artificial class-consciousness in the minds of the workers, but the basic struggle between labor and capital has not been to overthrow capitalism but to get the workers a more equitable share of the fruits of capitalism. For example, during the past twenty years labor has attained a higher status in the United States than ever before. The Communists tried to seize leadership in this reform trend, but the more the workers earned the more independent they became—not only by asserting their rights in relation to their employers but also in discharging the Communist agitators from labor union leadership.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“One of the most important tasks of the Cultural Revolution affecting the wide masses is the task of systematically and unswervingly combating religion—the opium of the people.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“Engels could not prevent himself from occasionally unveiling the truth of what was in his mind: "We therefore reject every attempt to impose on us any moral dogma what-ever...."16 In other words, Communism undertakes to replace Judaic-Christian morals with a complete absence of morals.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist

“There are well established and easily understood historical reasons why every legitimate influence should be brought to bear on the removal of this roadblock from the pathway of normal human advancement. This must be done for the sake of the Homo-Marxian as well as the rest of humanity. He is the victim of a man-made experiment, trapped in his own self-perpetuating cycle of human negation. As long as free men are the prevailing majority in the earth there is a very good chance of breaking this cycle. To do so, however, free men must achieve an intelligent and dynamic solidarity at least as strong as the illusory but firmly fixed purposes of Homo-Marxian.”
― W Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: 1

“Lunarcharsky: (Russian Commissioner of Education): “We hate Christians and Christianity. Even the best of them must be considered our worst enemies. Christian love is an obstacle to the development of the revolution. Down with love of one’s neighbor! What we want is hate.... Only then can we conquer the universe.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“A key tenet of socialism is to destroy the memory of the constructive participants of the past to justify the imposition of an elitist class of rulers who “know better” how to rule the people in the future.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“We shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record.... The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist!”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, and healthy.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“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.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“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.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“It is an interesting commentary on the Communist psychology to note that the United States never received an official “thank you” from Russia for the eleven billion dollars worth of Lend-Lease goods which were paid for and literally “donated” to the Communist Motherland by the American people.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom

“In October, 1957, Russia electrified the world with her first Sputnik. Built on plans stolen from the United States after World War II, Sputnik I, with a payload weighing 184 pounds, was successfully launched into orbit October 4th.”
― W. Cleon Skousen, The Naked Communist: Exposing Communism and Restoring Freedom