"1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes."
I will maintain that not many Americans REALLY own their land these days - they just think they do. Try not paying your taxes for a couple of years and see how long you hold onto "your" land. Of course, the land "owner" gets to insure "his" land (to keep the lawyers from scooping up his equity), and he has to maintain "his" property (blight ordinances, etc.), and if he wants to improve "his" land, he's got to go to the REAL owners and 'umbly beg permission, and pay for the permission, AND he gets to pay more rent property tax after getting grudging permission for improvements from the real owners.
And since we now recognize "property taxes" for what they REALLY are - rents, we ask the question - what are these rents for? Why, "public purposes", of course.
So, the first plank of the Commie Manifesto has been implemented with a vengeance - so successfully that most people haven't even got a clue that it's in place, and don't kick about it like they do with the second plank:
"2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax."
Which is indeed in place, but sticks like a burr under the skin of many.
But you forget that property taxes are MUCH older than the idea of communism.