The Purpose

What is the overall purpose of these secret and semi-secret organizations? Why do some of these organizations select and then support the candidates for major political office?

Perhaps the best answer to these questions was given by Norman Thomas, the Socialist Party's presidential candidate in every national election between the years of 1928 to 1948. Mr. Thomas said:

"We have learned that it is possible, to a degree not anticipated by most earlier Socialists, to impose desirable social controls on privately owned enterprises by the development of social planning, by proper taxation and labor legislation and by the growth of powerful labor organizations."

Mr. Thomas was revealing the game plan for the ultimate success of Socialism: the utilization of non-Socialist hands to gradually achieve the goals of Socialism. The question was how could the Socialists get the American people to accept Socialism when the American people had made it clear through the years they didn't want the economic philosophy known as Socialism.

Mr. Thomas answered this question on another occasion: "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism, but under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program until one day America will be a Socialist nation without knowing how it happened."

The key to success for the Socialists was to get the American people to support candidates that they perceived were "anti-Socialist" but were in truth secretly supporting the cause of the Socialist Party in increasing the size and scope of government in the lives of the American people.

Mr. Thomas later identified one of these "Liberal" "closet" "Socialists" when he wrote: "The United States is making greater strides toward Socialism under [President Dwight] Eisenhower than under [President Franklin] Roosevelt . . .

There are many who considered Roosevelt to be a semi-Socialist, but Eisenhower has been perceived as a "conservative" by the American people. Yet Thomas told the American people that Eisenhower as President was doing more to promote Socialism than had Roosevelt as President.

Another individual hiding his Socialism, according to Norman Thomas, was President Lyndon Johnson. Thomas was pleased with Johnson's Great Society: "I ought to rejoice and I do. I rub my eyes in amazement and surprise. His war on poverty is a Socialistic approach."

Thomas also heaped praise upon another "closet" socialist, Hubert Humphrey, who "is the type of Democrat I like and one who would be a Socialist if he got to England."

NORMAN THOMAS, THE SOCIALIST PARTY'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN EVERY NATIONAL ELECTION FROM 1928 THROUGH 1948, UNDERSTOOD THAT 'SOCIALISM' UNDER THAT NAME WOULD NEVER BE ACCEPTED BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. HE WROTE: "THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL NEVER KNOWINGLY ADOPT SOCIALISM, BUT UNDER THE NAME OF LIBERALISM, THEY WILL ADOPT EVERY FRAGMENT OF THE SOCIALIST PROGRAM UNTIL ONE DAY AMERICA WOULD BE A SOCIALIST NATION WITHOUT KNOWING HOW IT HAPPENED."

Another so-called "conservative, anti-Socialist" President was President Richard Nixon. But John Kenneth Galbraith, the Paul Warburg Professor of Economics at Harvard University, identified him as a "closet" socialist, one doing the work of the Socialist Party.

First, Professor Galbraith presented his credentials that enabled him to determine if anyone else was a Socialist. He made a statement that indicated that he personally was a Socialist He advocated that ". . . a certain number of industries should be publicly owned. For moving and housing people at moderate cost, private enterprise does not serve."

Then he makes the connection between Socialism and President Nixon:

"But I had come reluctantly to the conclusion that Socialism, even in this modest design, was something I would never see. Now I am being rescued by this new Socialist upsurge, promoted, of all things, by socialists, not on the Left, but on the Right, and they have the blessing and conceivably much more, of a Republican Administration. Certainly, the least predicted development under the Nixon administration was the great new thrust to Socialism. As an opponent of Socialism, Mr. Nixon seemed steadfast."

What these people were saying was that it didn't make any difference whether the American people voted Republican and "anti-Socialist," or Democratic and "Liberal," they get the same thing: more Socialism.

This statement becomes graphically clear when the following issues are examined in light of what the two major political parties have done in support of them. Both parties have at one time or another supported:

1. Ratification of the Genocide Convention;
2. A guaranteed annual income;
3. Federal Minimum Wage Legislation;
4. Federal Food Stamp Program;
5. Abolition of the death penalty;
6. Peaceful Coexistence;
7. Socialized medicine;
8. Disarmament;
9. Repeal of the Internal Security Legislation aimed at Communism;
10. Federal Civil Rights Legislation;
11. Reapportionment of Electoral Districts on the basis of Population;
12. Federal aid to education;
13. Federal child-care centers;
14. Ratification of the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty;
15. Termination of American sovereignty in the Panama Canal Zone; and
16. Increased agricultural and commercial trade with the Communist nations.

Not only have either or both of our major parties supported these programs, but another party has as well.

In fact, these are some of the planks in the official party platforms of:

The Communist Party, U.S.A.