Paul B. Skousen [Skousen - The Naked Socialist: Socialism Taught With the 5000 Year Leap Principles (The Naked Series Book 3)

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Softback ISBN: 978-1630720728

Hardback ISBN: 978-0910558730

eBook ISBN: 978-0910558723

Cover illustration and design by Arnold Friberg, restored by Benjamin C. Skousen, additions by J. Rich Skousen,

First edition, paperback, red cover: July 2012

First edition, hardback, red cover: September 2012

Second edition, paperback, black cover: May 1, 2014

by Paul B. Skousen

The Ensign Publishing Company, Riverton, Utah

Thomas Jefferson

November 29, 1802

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

Foreword

T he Naked Socialist is the third in a series of books written to unmask the human combines of control and power that have labored for millennia to enslave others. The first two works, The Naked Communist (1958) and The Naked Capitalist (1970), by W. Cleon Skousen, dealt with the ugly aftermath of those forces in modern times. The Naked Socialist goes further, all the way back to the beginning, to explain in layman terms how elitist minorities have always managed to take charge over everybody else. Its a modern phenomenon that began 6,000 years agoand has failed to achieve its promised goals each and every time.

A wise man once said, You will never hear the answer until you first ask the question. The following information is intended to trigger a thousand questions so that the crucial answers will make sense, make a lasting impression, and make clear the way forward to restore freedom, prosperity, and lasting happiness. It is a wonderfully satisfying pursuit for freedom-lovers of all ages.

Preface

Ask anyone, what is socialism?

Ask an American what socialism is and the answer is usually an impatient shrugI think its a European idea where the government pays for a lot of regular things like utilities and health care.

Ask a European what socialism isIts a political party, many will say. Theyre always promising to make the government pay for more thingsits certainly better than your American way.

Ask a former member of the USSR what socialism is and some will answer, Do you mean that other word for communism? It was horriblemy grandparents were killed because of it, people starved, we were miserable, but today were more free and the government is paying for a lot of things. Im not sure if thats socialism, but it keeps us from starving.

Ask someone in North Korea or Cuba or parts of China what socialism is, and they might be afraid to speak openly out of fear of being arrested or shot for criticizing the regime.

Socialism has so many meanings, people use it interchangeably with the ideas of compassion, fairness, and equality, or as the best alternative to evil capitalism. Or, as a system that provides affordable health care, utilities, mass transit, insurance, pollution control, etc.

Ask anybody, what is socialism? and the answers make it very clear that most people dont know, probably dont care, and seem content to live under its regimentation.

Missing in these hurried dismissals of socialism is this singular and critically important fact: socialism always destroys its host nation.

This study uncovers the ugly underside of socialisms failure formula. It looks into socialisms 6,000-year history to discover its common elements. As well see, there are seven distinct and identifiable markers of socialismseven shallow but affective ideas that consistently fail to serve the people or promote prosperity.

Once these seven bad ideas are identified and stripped of their deceit, propaganda, lies and false promises, then, quite suddenly, a way to climb out of todays snarling maze of cultural and economic decline can easily be seen. Its an amazing epiphany that pleasantly unfolds to students of freedom, to suddenly see the original U.S. Constitution in this new light and realize how elegantly and ingeniously it solved all the problems now facing America. And, how these same principles can guarantee freedom to all mankind.

Without using political or economic jargon, the reader is given the tools to correctly identify and explain why the best laid socialistic plans always go haywire. For example

In 2010, President Barack Obama committed the American people to their first-ever national health-care program. He told them it was against the law to say no. If they did, they would have to pay a fine. At the same time, Greece, Portugal, Italy, Spain and other parts of the European Union were in the middle of massive financial meltdowns brought on by their own health-care and entitlement packages.

As well explain, entitlement programs is socialism at work.

In 1787, the Founding Fathers sat uneasy while Alexander Hamilton paced back and forth at the U.S. Continental Congress. He spoke for five hours in support of a strong, all-powerful president and State executives appointed for life . About that same time, the European crowned monarchs watched with worry as discontented masses in France agitated for a proper way to remove their own head of state.

As well explain, all-powerful rulers is socialism at work.

In 1607, the emaciated survivors of Jamestowns first terrible winter looked at their scant food supply and the buried remains of 66 of their company who starved to death or were killed, and wondered what had gone wrong with their ideal colony. At the same time, far to the south, Jesuit Priests in Paraguay were leading thousands of natives into a life of such regimentation that the men and women wouldnt even sleep together unless they were ordered to by their masters.

As well explain, government regulation is socialism at work.

In A.D. 500, a widespread Christian heresy in Persia, the Mazdakians, won followers by calling for all things in common, including wives and women. So confused were the biological connections that some of the members didnt even know their own children. Meanwhile, far to the east, Shang Yang in China was teaching a doctrine of how to make millions of working peasants mentally weak so they could be ruled with greater ease.

As well explain, that, too, was socialism at work.

For more than a century, America has been adopting socialism by changing or ignoring its founding documents. As a result, the current generation is reaping financial wreckage, cultural upheaval and widespread despair on a scale of cataclysmic proportions.

Conditions are now dangerously ripe for replacing the substance of the Constitution with an inferior form of government. For a dozen decades the American people have allowed these corrupting ideas of socialism to swell within their ranks to the point that today the nation is on the very verge of crumbling to pieces, and teeters on the brink of ruin. The executioner of liberty is socialism, a massive red iceberg now cutting a fatal swath through the hull of the United States.