What will be the course of this (communistic) revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. […]However, the Constitution as written was not as democratic as the left would have liked; hence the introduction (or imposition, if history is scrutinized) of Amendments 16 (which instituted the income tax, concurrent with the second plank of communism, “A heavy progressive or graduated income tax”) and 17 (which destroyed the representation of state governments in the federal government by making Senators directly elected; instead, the Senators became beholden to lobbies).
In America, where a democratic constitution has already been established, the communists must make the common cause with the party which will turn this constitution against the bourgeoisie and use it in the interests of the proletariat—that is, with the agrarian National Reformers. …
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