“There are three possible methods by which the Communists might take us over. One would be, through a sufficient amount of infiltration and propaganda, to disguise Communism as just another political party… The second method would be by fomenting internal civil war in this country, and aiding the Communist side in that war, with all necessary military might.

In fact, it is clear that the Communists long ago made plans to have this method available… to whatever extent it might be useful… It has been their plan, gradually carried out over a long period with meticulous cunning, to stir up such bitterness between whites and blacks in the South that small flames of civil disorder would inevitably result.

But there is a third method which is far more in accordance with Lenin’s long-range strategy. It is one which they are clearly relying on most heavily… A part of that plan, of course, is to induce the gradual surrender of American sovereignty, piece by piece and step by step, to various international organizations – of which the United Nations is the outstanding, but far from the only example…

Until one day we shall gradually realize that we are already just a part of a world-wide government ruled by the Kremlin, with the police-state features of that government rapidly closing in on ourselves. But another part of that plan is the conversion of the United States into a socialist nation… before police-state enforcement is ever introduced.” [Book:] ‘The Blue Book of the John Birch Society’ by Robert Welch