Been reading “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx. What a lovely man, that Karl. He actually lays out the blueprint of what he wanted his followers to do to the world. Besides destroying the family, parental rights, religion, freedom of speech, private property rights, and other “bourgeois” beliefs, he detailed several other things he hoped to accomplish. Read this excerpt from Karl himself and ask yourself, “Gee, where have I seen or heard this stuff before?”
Nevertheless in the most advanced countries, the following will
be pretty generally applicable.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents
of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means
of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive
monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport
in the hands of the State.
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.
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.
Yeah, I know the idea of free schools for the public is a good idea. Probably the only thing ‘ol Karl said that was any good.
Except that he wanted the State to control education and not the parents. Except that Martin Luther came up with the idea 200 years before Karl, and the Pilgrims and Puritans (Christians! oh my!) brought the idea over here to America. Too bad Karl didn’t know history or human nature. Too bad most Americans don’t know the difference between Karl Marx and Groucho Marx. Too bad for us that we are actually implementing his murderous and destructive ideas.