10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
Check. Property tax, rent control, Kelo (emminent domain)
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Check
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
Under Obama, check
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
See Kelo.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Plan currently in place, thanks “bail out”
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
Fairness Doctrine on target
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State.
United Auto Workers GM/Chrysler merger and bailout
General regulations on workplace making possible
8. Equal liability of all to labour.
Abolition of “right to work” state laws in process.
“Fair pay” laws and other such in process
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.
Abandoned as too 19th century
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.
Check.
I like the list of goals read in to the record in the House of Representatives in 1963. The mission is almost complete. They took control of the media and the schools. We’re doomed.