[3] The Naked Communist is a 1958 anti-communist book by American faith-based political theorist W. Cleon Skousen, a former FBI employee.

[1][2] The main subject of the book is an alleged communist plot to overcome and control all of the world's governments through the implementation of social progressivism and by undermining American foreign policy through the promotion of internationalism and pacifism.

According to Skousen, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels declared the six communist principles in 1847: the overthrow of capitalism, the abolition of private property, the elimination of family as a social unit, the abolition of all classes, the overthrow of all governments, and the establishment of a communist order with communal ownership of property in a classless, stateless society.

[7][8] The book was commented favorably by President Ronald Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover, first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

[9] The book has also been highly discussed by American conservatives Glenn Beck and Ben Carson,[10] the latter of whom stated in 2014, "The Naked Communist lays out the whole progressive plan.