Will America Become a Communist Country?

In his article published at The Daily Signal, Arthur Goldberg discussed how he “worked … to enhance American democracy” in the 1960s by engaging “in nonviolent actions to end racial segregation in America.” Then he compared the “nonviolent actions” of his generation to so-called protests of the last decade. 

By contrast, the agitators of the last decade want only to destroy property, hurt people, and seek to dismantle government itself….

As a mature person in 2025, I and others of my generation recognize how these efforts by so-called progressives (more appropriately called radical leftists) destabilize American democracy. We are heartened, however, by the Trump administration’s executive orders, administrative responses, and legal actions. They seek to restore traditional American values and overcome so-called wokeism within our culture….

This attitude, reflective of hundreds of similar statements by radical leftists, reflects a previously discredited Marxist-Leninist ideology. We were warned, however, by someone in a position to know how such thinking could ultimately infiltrate America.

In a TV interview 40 years ago, former KGB agent Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov (who had earlier defected to the West) explained the plan of committed Marxists-Leninists to gradually subvert America’s political system.

Prior thereto, Nikita Khrushchev, first secretary of the Communist Party of the former Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and its premier from 1958 to 1964, prophesied that communism would eventually take over America without firing a shot. How? By pitting us against one another, that is, blue states against red states, blacks against whites, poor against rich, and the nonreligious against the religious.

Again, quoting Khrushchev, “We can’t expect the American people to jump from capitalism to communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of socialism until they awaken one day to find they have communism.” In other words, to have America enter a doom spiral, destroying itself “from within.”

Bezmenov’s TV interview elaborated on Khrushchev’s prophesy by setting forth four basic stages of ideological subversion and brainwashing.

The first stage, “demoralization” is a process of reeducating generations of students to change their way of thinking. He believed this development would successfully occur in the U.S. when the 1960s and ‘70s student radicals came to power and assumed roles as educators and business leaders. According to Bezmenov, these individuals would throw out classical education and weaken belief in traditional Judeo-Christian moral values. They would indoctrinate future students (i.e., future leaders) with Marxist-Leninists values (such as destroying free speech and replacing it with politically correct speech codes.)

The truth of this prophecy is evidenced by simply witnessing (1) what passes for education today in our high schools and colleges, where virulent anti-Americanism has become embedded both within the educational system and in students’ values; and (2) the infusions of cash by major business entities and foundations to leftist social-political movements such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa…..

Stage two, “destabilization” is a process of weakening the essential structural elements of a nation by targeting changes in the economy and international relations such as infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion as part of the fabric of society or by providing billions of dollars to foreign adversaries such as Iran and Afghanistan.

The third stage utilizes “crisis” to achieve the ends of the revolution, whether it be a pandemic or the killing of an unarmed black man. During this time, “a violent change of power, structure, and the economy” takes hold. It also accelerates the process of redistributing wealth.

And finally, Bezmenov referred to stage four as “normalization” or what we may call the new normal. By this time, America has basically been taken over and lives under a new ideology and reality.

He warned us this is what will happen to America unless it guards against people who desire to bring on times of crisis….

Today we are in a fight for the heart and soul of our nation. The Trump administration and conservative governors grasp the impending danger posed by adherents of the radical left. They’ve taken to heart the importance of acting upon the words of Reagan in his farewell address: “If we lose our values, we lose America. The good news is that it is not too late … to restore a sense of national pride and return to embracing the core values that our Founders instilled in the fabric of America.”

Communists have been working for most of my lifetime – since the end of World War II – to take control of America. They make great strides in reaching their goal during Democrat administration and sometimes during Republican administrations. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan recognized the dangers facing America and fought back. Now Donald Trump has taken up the gauntlet in his fight to Make America Great Again. He recognizes the dangers that face America and works to claw back American principles and liberties.