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. 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 wastelands, 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 m public schools. Abolition
of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with
industrial production.
Well we are not there yet but perhaps we can judge the progress by examining the actions of our Politicians but more importantly of our Government Administrators.
Just a few of the above:
Centralizing Credit and Banks, well we are on our way there.
Centralizing means of communications, well the NSA has really helped out there.
Cultivation of Wastelands, that has been the EPA, Marx never asked for productive "cultivation"
Mao tried the "all to agriculture" thing in the "Great Leap Forward". I find it interesting that perhaps we could get all those folks in DC out in the fields working crops. Just a thought as we move towards a new year.
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