The Communist Manifesto--1848

Have you ever read any or all of the Communist Manifesto? I have copied a portion of it below. Please read it carefully.
If you know anything of the misery suffered by people in communist countries, you will not want to live that way. But this is where we are all going to end up if we follow the path we are on.
The Manifesto was written in 1848. You can Google it (or click on the title of this entry to link to "marxists.org") if you want to read the whole thing, but the most alaming part is copied here.
The federal government is getting too involved in business, including or especially banks, with the so-called Bail Outs. This interference is causing more problems than it is fixing. But could the crumbling of our economic system be intentional?

From section II of the Manifesto--


The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.

Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production.
These measures will, of course, be different in different countries.
Nevertheless, in 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 rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization 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 obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.

Can anyone say "Bail Out"? or "Global warming"? or "Government controls on industry" ? or "New laws passed for your own good"
And how about this to fit the plan? From our new president's official website...
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/NationalServicePlanFactSheet.pdf


-- Flo

repair the world--tikkun olam