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This is an extract from Maurice Newman’s column in The Australian. I haven’t read The Naked Communist but from Newman’s column, it pretty much reads exactly like the blueprint of the Frankfurt School/Antonio Gramsci manifesto of decades  prior as I’ve outlined many times on talk radio, Facebook, and my blog only last week.
We can pretty much see what Newman’s referring to with the capture of one or both of the major political parties with the Green/Left taking over Labor so that it no longer remotely resembles a party of the workers but more exclusively a party for the social and cultural agenda of the inner city, ABC elites. A read of The Shadow Party clearly demonstrates that the same has happened to the Democrats in the US. It too has been gutted and as we’ve seen with the 2016 Presidential election no longer represents its base but more specifically its become the play thing of the social and cultural Marxists of the east and west coasts.
“….In his 1960s bestseller, The Naked Communist, former FBI agent W. Cleon Skousen lays bare an ambitious Marxist manifesto. He identifies 46 goals ranging from reordering Western values and institutions to a one-world government under the UN.
 
A major objective was the capture of one or both of the major US political parties. Marxists would use the courts to weaken US institutions through technical decisions based on human rights. Schools would become transmission belts for socialist propaganda and, by softening the curriculum, teachers’ associations would carry the party line in textbooks on the list of required reading. Loyalty oaths would be abolished.
 
They aimed to infiltrate the media and control editorial writing, book reviews and student newspapers.
 
Where possible, key positions in radio, television and film would be filled with sympathetic presenters, actors and producers.
 
“Cultural Marxism” would target all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship”. Lower cultural standards of ­morality would be encouraged through wider acceptance of pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, movies, radio and TV. Degeneracy and promiscuity were to be presented as “normal, natural and healthy”.
 
Now, with the finish line in sight, the seductive mask of socialism is starting to slip, revealing the brutal authoritarian face behind. We hear of meetings being abandoned because of threats of violence from left-wing activists. Hotel staff receive physical threats should a Christian meeting, opposed to same-sex marriage, proceed. Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali cancels her Australian speaking tour, citing safety fears. One Nation leader Pauline Hanson withdraws from a forum because her security cannot be guaranteed. Conservative Sky News commentator Andrew Bolt is set upon by leftists. The list is endless. Yet we tolerate the intolerant and defend the indefensible, cravenly shouldering the blame.
 
In true Labor style, utopian commitments are made in the full knowledge that the ability to pay for them is but a vain hope. Growth-stifling taxes and red tape increase along with bureaucracies to administer them. Ironically, the cumulative effect of these measures renders the prospect of honouring political promises ever more remote.
 
Meanwhile, Marxist aims for the UN are very much on track, aided and abetted by obsequious Western acolytes such as Foreign Minister Julie Bishop. In a classic case of UN virtue signalling, an unnecessary advisory group has been established “to provide expert advice to support government and business to work together to improve human rights”. Really?
 
But this is nowhere as irresponsible as the ratification of the Paris emission targets, which effectively cede de facto control of the Australian economy’s commanding heights, critical sectors that dominate economic activity, such as electricity generation, heavy manufacturing, mining and transport, to unelected UN ­bureaucrats in Geneva and Bonn.
 
The Prime Minister described this as “a watershed, or turning point”. Indeed it is.
 
Such meek surrender brings the Marxist dream of one-world government another step closer. Its realisation is assisted by the existence of other supranational groups such as the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund (a Keynesian brainchild), the World Bank and the G20. Each, despite clear evidence to the contrary, haughtily extols the virtues of centralised decision-making. But what should we expect from a political class whose power is amplified through these bureaucracies?
 
So long as this self-serving mindset prevails, we can expect ­financial and economic crises to intensify, living standards to fall, confidence in our democratic system to sink further and, like Greece, Venezuela and the rest, the economy to finally collapse.
 
“Then,” say the Marxists, “shall (we) stride through the wreckage, a creator.”  Masks slip to reveal the ugly face of the future