by George McClellan, America Outloud:
Politically, understanding why we got to where we are as a nation is difficult at best when, over many years, like the camel’s nose under the tent, Leftist-leaning politicians have brought America to the very doorstep of socialism, aka Communism. Another Obama term should see the job done.
1957 was my first year in college. It was when my age group first realized the “Red Scare” was a far more serious issue than we knew from high school. We were all well acquainted with WWII, which we won, enjoying the prosperity of victory but gave little thought to the Soviet Union’s role in it. In hindsight, they paid the highest price in men and materials fighting as our allies against the common enemy of Nazism.
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At the end of the war, as world politics was being sorted out, they got the atomic bomb, and suddenly, Russia was no longer our ally but our enemy. They made us their enemy, and the race for political hegemony was on. Mao had quickly turned an agrarian China into a dictatorial Marxist-Leninist pauper state, and the Korean War soon followed, which offered us a picture of the determination of totalitarian aggression. Although China aided North Korea in their war, they stayed a non-threat until President Nixon opened the doors to Capitalism. Nothing’s been the same ever since.
The Korean War had come to a stalemate, and the threat of Communism’s spread throughout Asia was everybody’s concern. As we were restoring Japan, the fear grew that Communism would sweep all of a war-ravaged Asia into its grip, and we weren’t prepared to resist. We saw it as a “Domino Effect.” It drove the growth of the West’s Military-Industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us to avoid. It launched the CIA into creating or removing foreign governments the US saw fit to change, and we witnessed the last breath of Europe’s Asian Colonialism with France’s inability to resist the political changes of Nationalism then developing in French Indochina, aka Vietnam. We couldn’t resist either, but I’m getting ahead of myself.
Let’s go back to 1958. Because North Korea’s aggression against South Korea was only halted and not defeated, the ‘Red Scare’ grew exponentially, and at its height, a book titled The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen hit the streets, and we all read it. It was fascinating, and it scared the hell out of us. I don’t know how many millions of copies were sold, but my paperback copy had worn out years ago. It swept the halls of government, indeed, all of America.
Skousen’s book confirmed what we thought we saw: China’s fall to Mao, North Korea’s fall to the Soviet-backed Kim regime, and Russia’s growing aggression through successive dictatorships after Stalin. As early as 1938, even before WWII, fearing the Soviet’s growing spying apparatus, the dangers were enough to cause Congress to form the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.
It examined all complaints of suspected Communist infiltration in all US government and industry branches. It even examined the suspected Communists propaganda influence in Hollywood, creating a “Blacklist” of suspected “fellow travelers” whether they were or not. Characters who were communists, like Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentley, and others, were exposed as Communists, Communist spies, or collaborators. Politicians like Sen. Joe McCarthy enjoyed a field day spreading the ‘Red’ fear. In Joe’s favor, he did hit the target sometimes.
How did The Naked Communist come about? By the 1950s, the political ideology of Marxism was coming out of a peasant society (Russia), and the serious threat it posed was alarming. Russia beat the Nazis, and they had the bomb. Realizing Americans weren’t prepared, Skousen saw the urgent need for a serious book that could guide America’s political conversations. His book became the standard of America’s new values. It earned high praise from President Ronald Reagan, most recently from Glenn Beck and Dr. Ben Carson. Also in 1958, Masters of Deceit, by J. Edgar Hoover, came out detailing the ominous picture of the communists in America as he saw them from his perch at the head of the FBI, including their timetable of conquest.
The word ‘Red’ means ‘beautiful’ in Russian. In America, it meant everything Communist and, therefore, bad. Where do we find that word in use today? The Progressives have hung it around the Republican Party’s neck. Perceptions matter, so why did we allow that to happen?
Paul Harvey, a beloved journalist on CBS radio decades ago, said: “Skousen predicted that someday soon you won’t be able to find the truth in schools, libraries, or anywhere else because it won’t be in print anymore. So you must collect those books. Where he talked about how someday the history of this country’s going to be lost because it’s going to be hijacked by intellectuals and communists and everything else.”
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