The Naked Communist
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| Author | W. Cleon Skousen |
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| Illustrator | Arnold Friberg |
| Cover artist | Izzard Ink Publishing |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Communism and Socialism |
| Published | 1958, 2014 (Izzard Ink Publishing) |
| Pages | 398 |
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| 335.4 22 | |
| LC Class | HX44 .S5585 2009 |
The Naked Communist is a 1958 book by an ex FBI agent, United States author and political theorist W. Cleon Skousen. The book has been reprinted several times, the most recent of which was a 2014 printing through Izzard Ink Publishing, and has sold more than 1 million copies.
The author posits a geopolitical strategy by which the Marxist–Leninist Soviet Union was attempting to overcome and control all the governments of the world that were not members of the Communist bloc.
Max Blumenthal heavily criticized the book in his 2009 book Republican Gomorrah, where he dismissed it as a "right-peddling conspiracy tract". In contrast, the book has been highly praised by American conservatives Glenn Beck and Ben Carson, the latter of whom stated that “The Naked Communist lays out the whole progressive plan. It is unbelievable how fast it has been achieved.”
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