Do you really know about Communism? Communism promises everything anyone could ever want. History clearly shows it delivers far less. This cure is always worse than the disease:
The Communist Manifesto, penned by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in 1848, demands the following actions to bring in the world they envisioned. Conscious Capitalists believe in a beautiful world without any of these actions. Though now a big part of the rule of law in the US, they are truly detrimental to minorities and all the nation. Much as we are "taught" otherwise, it is just not a wise teaching. Our problems today may be the result of these never substantiated "beliefs" that became norms in the US in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Each number, 1-10, is a plank of the Communist Manifesto. They represent the principles on which Communist countries are organized. Underneath each plank, I have noted how the the US mainstream law and politics adopts them. It is sad that such norms are with us as part of our heritage and school teaching. While people from such countries flee here, that is proof the principles are unhealthy.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
Eminent Domain taken to new levels of state intervention in private property confiscation. Laws and regulations that have become overbearing on development and maintenance. 2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
The US has had a progressive income tax since shortly after it was recommended by the Communist Manifesto.3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
Inheritance taxes certainly fluctuate in severity but are very present.4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
This is not much a part of US law at this time.5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
A US National bank was established in the mid 19th Century and the Federal Reserve, our most powerful central bank was established in the early 20th century.6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
Privatization is often decried but the US broke free of Airport, Telecommunications, and other monopolies much to the benefit of society.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.
waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. Subsidies, power girds, and other parks and recreation lands are still very much a “status quo” of monopolistic government.8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
We use immigrants who come from socialist and communist countries to find a better way of living and farming.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.
US does not have this.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.
The US has the department of Education and many other educational programs that are quite monopolistic. The US refuses school choice, vouchers, and any private program that would give people a choice. We are “forced” in many areas to go to the “public school”. Of the 10 planks, the US now actively embraces about 7. We are 70%, more or less, Communist. What do you think of that? Could this be the root of some of our woes?
