Marxism in the Classroom, Riots in the Streets

The explosion of lawless rioting on American streets was only a matter of time. Sixty-two years ago, former FBI agent W. Cleon Skousen wrote "The Naked Communist" to warn Americans about how communists planned to destroy our system from within, not by means of sudden revolution as envisioned by Karl Marx, but through a version of Italian communist Antonio Gramsci's "cultural Marxism." With a nod to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its People's Liberation Army (PLA), it has been a "long march through the institutions" that has brought us to the brink of catastrophe—and much of it began in our schools. Chapter 13 of Skousen's book lists 45 goals of communism in America. Number 17 reads: "Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of the teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks." And so they did. While American parents were busy working to sustain their families and achieve a piece of the American dream, their children were at schools with teachers and textbooks that taught them to hate America, the Judeo-Christian foundations of our national identity, and the remarkable individuals who built this country on the principles of the Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, the Federalist Papers, and more.

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