The Naked Communist is a 1958 book by American and political theorist W. Cleon Skousen, a former FBI employee.[1][2] The book has been reprinted several times, most recently in a 2014 printing through Izzard Ink Publishing, and it has sold more than 1 million copies.[3]

The book states that the Marxist–Leninist Soviet Union is attempting to a geopolitical strategy to overcome and control all of the world's governments that are not members of the Communist bloc.[4]

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Max Blumenthal heavily criticized the book in his 2009 book Republican Gomorrah, where he dismissed it as a "right-peddling conspiracy tract."[5] In contrast, the book has been highly praised by American conservatives Glenn Beck and Ben Carson,[6] the latter of whom stated, "The Naked Communist lays out the whole progressive plan. It is unbelievable how fast it has been achieved."[7][8][9]