Yesterday was the 160th anniversary of one of the Left's most holy texts - the Communist Manifesto. This is their playbook on how to bring about Communism in a democratic nation. Specifically, it details how they can bring about Communism in the United States of America. At the end of chapter 2, Karl Marx outlines 10 steps, some more relevant than others, that the proletariat must implement in order to bring about the Communist state. A closer look at many of the policies of the Left will show that they have already begun to implement these policies in full force:
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
Eminent Domain. This has been heavily abused and has been taken way past the original scope intended by the Constitution. Currently, the government has the authority to take any person private property for any reason it sees fit, provided it gives the owner "just compensation." Your property is yours only as long as the government doesn't want it.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
The IRS hit this nail on the head. The more money you make, the higher the percentage of your income is taxed. The top 5% of wage earners in the United States pay a little more than 50% of the total tax bill for the entire nation. The top 10% pay nearly 65%. The top 50% of wage earners pay 96%. The better you do, the more it costs you. How does that encourage success?
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
This is known to Americans as the Death Tax or the Estate Tax. After being taxed all your life on everything you make and again on everything you buy, your inheritance is taxed again after your death.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. Government seizures, tax liens, and forfeitures allows certain government agencies such as the IRS to seize the property of others. Often without due process.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capotal and an exclusive monopoly.
Say hello to the Federal Reserve System, also known as "the Fed." All banks are a member of the Federal Reserve System, which manipulates interest rates as it sees fit,has the absolute power to print money, and regulates banks through the FDIC. You don't have to follow politics to know the major influence that the Fed has over Wall Street and the economics of the nation.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. This list can get rather large: The Federal Communications Commission, Department Of Transportation, the fairness doctrine as an attempt to control talk radio, attempted regulations of the internet, and attacks on the Fox News Network for not pandering to the Left.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. All over the country you can't begin your own business without the government's permission, via a business license. There is also extensive regulation through agencies like O.S.H.A. and other government programs. Once you have paid the government for the ability to start your business, your business has to pay them taxes every year after that. The second part of this step is accomplished through practices such as telling farmers what to plant and paying them not to plant in certain areas of their land.
8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c. The tax-funded public school system controlled by the Academic Left. In many areas, all children are required to attend publics school until the 8th grade. There has been a massive assault on an American's right to have their children home schooled. It's purpose: indoctrination of America's youth.
Labels: Socialism
The fed is what has stopped the US from entering another great depression (remember '87?)
And regardless of whether it's communism, how is a free education for children a bad thing?
Anonymous said...
February 28, 2008 5:45 PM
Nice job laying that out! It's people like you that are going to safeguard the American way of life, by keeping this dangerous rogue totalitarian Bush administration in check. It's going to take many more good people like you to undo the steps toward communism taken over the last 7 years. Keep up the good work!
living abomination said...
February 28, 2008 6:22 PM
It's mandantory public education that's a bad thing. It's a one-sided form of indoctrination.
Justin said...
February 29, 2008 8:05 AM
"And regardless of whether it's communism, how is a free education for children a bad thing?"
Because it's a conspiracy to inject your children with clay and make them believe in radical ideas like genetic mutation and natural selection! In second grade!
Matt said...
February 29, 2008 3:32 PM
"Because it's a conspiracy to inject your children with clay and make them believe in radical ideas like genetic mutation and natural selection! In second grade!"
I sense your sarcasm; however, the fact remains that in public schools, instead of teaching our kids reading, writing, and arithametic, we are teaching leftist morals and politics that should be left at home. The Left and the Dems fight against vouchers, home schooling, and other programs that give us choice of how to educate our kids.
Instead, we are teaching kids that homosexuality is normal, theories such as the big bang to explain the creation of life, global warming as if it is a fact, and the evils of an imperialistic nation such as America. In some schools, we ban private or open prayer and teach the five pillars of Islam. Public schools no longer educate our youth. They attempt to conform their beliefs to those of the academic Left. Such pratices should be left out of the schools, and at the very least parents should have the opportunity to send their children elsewhere or to school them at home to avoid the disgusting Anti-American and Anti-Moralistic values our public school system teaches.
Justin said...
March 1, 2008 7:37 PM