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Subject: SLS: COMMUNIST MANIFESTO VS. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM
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>
>THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO VS. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLATFORM
> A point-by-point comparison
>
> As part of their Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Frederick
>Engels in 1847-48 proposed the following ten goals:
>
> 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 right of inheritance.
>
> 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
>
> 5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by
> means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive
> monopoly.
>
> 6. Centralisation 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 liability of all to labour. Establishment of
> industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
> In 1992 and 1996, the Democrat Party of America published
>party platforms which included the following goals that are
>compared, point by point, to the ten goals of the Communist
>Manifesto as listed above:
>
> 1. "We will protect our old growth forests, preserve critical
> habitats, provide a genuine 'no net loss' policy on
> wetlands."
>
> 2. "We must... make the rich pay their fair share in taxes."
>
> 3. [An inheritance tax that gives the State its share of the
> inheritance, has already been achieved.]
>
> 4. [Nothing applicable]
>
> 5. [The Federal Reserve has already been established]
>
> 6. "We will rebuild America by investing more in
> transportation... and a national information network."
>
> 7. "The Democratic Party insists that corporate leaders
> invest in the long-term, by providing workers with living
> wages and benefits, education and training, a safe, healthy
> place to work, and opportunities for greater involvement in
> company decision making and ownership. Employers must make
> sure workers share in the benefits of the good years, as well
> as the burdens of the bad ones. Employers must offer
> employees the opportunity to share in the profits they help
> create. Employers must respect the commitment of workers to
> their families, and must work to provide good pensions and
> health care... The President and Vice President have created
> a brownfields initiative to bring life back to abandoned and
> contaminated property by reforming outdated regulations and
> providing incentives for cleanup."
>
> 8. [Nothing Applicable]
>
> 9. "It is time to reestablish the private/public partnership
> to ensure that family farmers get a fair return for their
> labor and investment, so that consumers receive safe and
> nutritious foods, and that needed investments are made in
> basic research, education, rural business development, market
> development and infrastructure to sustain rural communities."
>
> 10. "Strengthening public schools."
>
>
> To put things in the proper perspective, Section 8, Article I
>of the U.S. Constitution specifically enumerates the powers of
>the Congress of the United States:
>
> Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect
> taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and
> provide for the common defense and general welfare of the
> United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be
> uniform throughout the United States;
>
> To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
>
> To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the
> several states, and with the Indian tribes;
>
> To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform
> laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United
> States;
>
> To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign
> coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
>
> To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the
> securities and current coin of the United States;
>
> To establish post offices and post roads;
>
> To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by
> securing for limited times to authors and inventors the
> exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
>
> To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
>
> To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the
> high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
>
> To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and
> make rules concerning captures on land and water;
>
> To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to
> that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
>
> To provide and maintain a navy;
>
> To make rules for the government and regulation of the land
> and naval forces;
>
> To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws
> of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
>
> To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the
> militia, and for governing such part of them as may be
> employed in the service of the United States, reserving to
> the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and
> the authority of training the militia according to the
> discipline prescribed by Congress;
>
> To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever,
> over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may,
> by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of
> Congress, become the seat of the government of the United
> States, and to exercise like authority over all places
> purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in
> which the same shall be, for the erection of forts,
> magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful
> buildings;--And
>
> To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for
> carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other
> powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the
> United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
>
>
>The Constitution has not been repealed (at least not by any
>democratic process) and therefore is still the supreme law of the
>land. Yet with the possible exception of the fourth and the
>eighth goals of the Communist Manifesto, Democrats have either
>achieved or implemented the goals of the Communist Manifesto in
>their own Party Platform, masked by NewSpeak terms such as
>"fairness" and "opportunity."
>
>One possible--and very troubling--interpretation of these
>documents is that we have been asleep at the switch and failed to
>preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United
>States against all enemies, foreign and domestic...
>
>
>
>
> Published in the Oct. 6, 1997 issue of The Washington Weekly
> Copyright 1997 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
> Reposting permitted with this message intact
>
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