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Re: A word to the international community... (Re: Vote against/for...)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 6 Nov 2002 22:55:45 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> differ politically from French socialists and Europeans in general.
John, John -- wake up! You're talking in your sleep and some of us can
still hear you...
Increasingly we have more in common with socialism and/or communism than we
do with a free democratic republic, or hadn't you noticed?
THE 10 PLANKS OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to
public purpose
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. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a
national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization 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 labor. 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 equitable
distribution of population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of
children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with
industrial production, etc., etc.
Generally speaking, most of these planks are at least partially if not fully
implemented in the modern U.S.
-- Hop-Frog
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