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The Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto

I have written before of “The Rules of Ten”. The first is The Ten Commandments. I think most of us are familiar with these and will agree they are the better part of Western Civilization. The second is the Bill of Rights, or the first ten Amendments to the Constitution. These Rights express the basis of a Constitutional Republic, the basic duty of government is to protect the individual rights of the citizens, and to limit the power of the Federal Government. We all should be familiar with these, also.

The third group is the ‘Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto’. Unfortunately many Americans are not familiar with these rules espoused by our enemies, so I will quote them here (with my comments and clarifications in parenthesis). The following is taken from a 1948 reprint by International Publishers of “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, the 1888 edition, translated and edited by Engels.

1. Abolition of (private) property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. (This is the basis for government ownership of all “means of production”. The government ‘may’ choose to rent some property to you, but you cannot own it. The creation of real wealth by mining, agriculture, manufacturing, or some combination of the three, require ownership of the property.)

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. (This prevents the accumulation of the necessary capital to invest in any business.)

3. Abolition of all right of inheritance. (If one generation does start any business, no matter how small, it reverts to the government at their death.)

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. (You can’t leave the country with anything, and if the government brands you as a “rebel” they can confiscate anything you have.)

5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. (Think a Federal Reserve System run by Charles Shumer and Barney Frank. Fannie Mae squared.)

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the state. (Only NPR & MSNBC? No free press, no privately owned vehicles.)

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. (All mining, Agriculture, and manufacturing belongs to the state.)

8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. (Community service, or slavery?)

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by the more equable distribution of the population over the country. (Total control over the population.)

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of child factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. (Total indoctrination of children, youth trained to serve as the state needs. No freedom of choice for career.)

I challenge each of you to study and understand these principles and ask yourself who is pushing for these and why they wish to enforce them on a free people. See how these ‘planks’ have been gradually forced on us: #1 & 7 are gradually enforced by bureaucracy and regulation. You are only allowed to do what Zoning, EPA, OSHA, and host of other bureaucracies allow you, permits must be purchased for every step, and you still get to pay taxes on property you don’t truly own.

#2,3, & 4 are self explanatory. I think #5 is demonstrated by the current ‘Debt Crisis’ and the constant expansion of Federal Debt and the money supply for the benefit of the ‘Progressive/socialists’.

#6 is demonstrated by the “Fairness Doctrine” and the subservience of the MSM to the far left and by the administration’s dictating to the auto industry what they can sell. #8 has been demonstrated by Obama’s insistence of students perform ‘Community Service’ to graduate from High School and College. #9 is just beginning, the failed Wildings Project of the Clinton era and now the UN’s Agenda 21 are examples; more regulations are coming and many are on the books, often under FEMA, but not generally enforced.

The first part of #10 is obvious, Public schools now teach socialism and whatever agenda the Elites demand. They do not need to apply these ‘Planks’ as Marx wrote them, in fact it is far more efficient to apply control gradually, hiding behind a facade of “Democracy”. Under the “Wetlands” laws they can deny you any use of a portion of your property, but you still must pay taxes on it. If they condemn it all you would cease to pay the taxes and let it escheat to the government.

Compare these to the two previous “Rules of Ten” and consider which set you would like to live under and to pass on to your descendants. Then consider who is trying to enforce these and the “45 Declared Goals of the Communist Party” on us.

Political Cartoon, Chicago Tribune, 1934