W. Cleon Skousen

Listen, next week on this show, I will be doing the third of my Naked Communist shows just in time for Election Day the following Tuesday.

And just in time, because with all the Tallaricos and the El Saids, all the communists and Islamists running all over America, it's time to delve into the last of the 40 stated goals of From Cleon Skousen's 1958 book, we're going to dig into goals 31 through 40, which predict, by the way, among other things, defunding the police and dismantling certain federal agencies that have to do with law and order and keeping a civil society.

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There's a longer 20th century history behind this than any one general conference talk.

Benson's anti-communism, the John Birch Society, Cleon Skousen, did more than sit next to each other.

Together, they helped build a vocabulary in which scripture, American exceptionalism, Mormon exceptionalism, prophetic warning, fears of hidden subversion, they all reinforce each other.

By the time Facebook arrived, there was already cultural soil for these ideas to flourish in.

So it's like, what did he do, right? Why did God have to take him out? Right.

So when I was at Cleon Skousen's house, we were talking about stuff and talking about politics and all this other stuff.

And he went off kind of in his very kind way that he would about Hugh B.

Brown and how Hugh B.

Oh, my gosh.

So that was my view.

But I was taught that in a room full of other bleeding members by Cleon Skousen.

Well, that makes sense.

And I quoted a book, The Naked Communist.

Skousen was the author.

And in the book, he talked about how eventually in this country, the communists will strip naked and run to the finish line.

I believe that what's what we're experiencing.

First question, thoughts on the book, The Naked Communists.

I know that Cleon Skousen, a guy named Cleon Skousen, wrote that book, but I've never read it.

Look, I have a problem with some of the anti-communist literature, especially that when the Burt Society gets a hold of it.

There's a body of anti-communist literature that blames communism on a capitalist conspiracy, right? You've got Anthony Sutton, for example.

There's Ernest Wilkinson, who becomes BYU's seventh president in 1951, who transforms the entire campus, really brings BYU into the big leagues.

And then maybe most significantly, W. Cleon Skousen, with whom President Benson is going to work closely in the fight against communism.

More on that in our next episode.

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This is nothing new.

And, uh, when you go back to Skousen, uh, who wrote the book The Naked Communist, and he talks extensively about what their plans are for the future, and those seem to be coming to fruition.

So that's why we're in the situation that we're in.

We have to remember what Marxism is.