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Written:
Late 1847
First Published: February, 1848
Source: Marx/Engels Selected Works, Volume one, p. 98
- 137
Publisher: Progress Publishers, Moscow, USSR, 1969
Translated: Samuel
Moore in cooperation with Frederick Engels, 1888.
Transcription/Markup: Zodiac
and Brian
Basgen
Copyleft: Marx/Engels Internet Archive (marxists.org)
1987, 2000. Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute
this document under the terms of the GNU
Free Documentation License.
“These measures
will, of course, be different in different countries. Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be
pretty generally applicable.
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 rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation
of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization
of credit in the banks 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
obligation of all to work. Establishment
of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of
agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction
between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace 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.”
No, you have not just read the original ten Bill of
Rights of the United States Constitution.
Although just about all ten of the above tenets are advocated if not
implemented by our United States Government.
To not hold communistic views of society you must hold to views other
than the above. Go back and figure out
what the opposite of a communist would be.
Caution: You may become suicidal when you realize just how far gone
America is.
When I
began to read copies of United States source documents, I was shocked at my own
ignorance of the brilliance of our own constitution in establishing a free
economical and spiritual society. When
I first read “The Manifesto of The Communist Party” I was equally shocked and
enraged at my ignorance of how the liberals of this country had cleverly
interweaved communism into our society thus choking our economic, spiritual,
and personal freedoms. When I traveled
to the Soviet Union in the 1980s I was again enraged at our liberal academia
for purporting communism as the preferable form of government.
The
following is meant to demonstrate what little intellectual effort is required
to totally dismantle Mr. Marx’s contradictory premises.
“In this sense,
the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition
of private property.”
All
right you commies, seeing that you do not want to own any private property,
hand over your private property to me.
I can be contacted through the e-mail address on the opening page. I have always been amazed at the hypocrisy
of all avowed commies at their ownership of private property.
“And the
abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of
individuality and freedom! And rightly so.”
All of
you commies can become my personal slaves seeing that you abhor individuality
and freedom. Sign up via e-mail on the
front.
“The abolition of
bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is
undoubtedly aimed at.”
Class
envy and jealousy are sins of the baser sort!!!
“By freedom is
meant, under the present bourgeois conditions of production, free trade, free
selling and buying.”
You
either have free markets or controlled markets. Who are you to state that you should be the controller of all
markets? I say that I should be at the
helm of all markets. Who is to decide?
“But if selling
and buying disappears, free selling and buying disappears also. This talk about free selling and buying, and
all the other "brave words" of our bourgeois about freedom in
general, have a meaning, if any, only in contrast with restricted selling and
buying, with the fettered traders of the Middle Ages, but have no meaning when
opposed to the communist abolition of buying and selling, or the bourgeois
conditions of production, and of the bourgeoisie itself.”
“You are
horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private
property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its
existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those
nine-tenths. You reproach us,
therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary
condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the
immense majority of society.”
Too bad
that Mr. Marx did not have the privilege to live during our lifetime. Had he of lived now he would have never of
uttered this nonsensical statement. Who
we call the poor in America have it ten times better that the majority of
citizens in the former Soviet Union.
“In one word, you
reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.”
Get
your greedy paws off of my property!!!!!!!!
I want your property!!!!!!! Let
us duke it out!!!!!! Might makes right!!!!!!!! Communism is like Islam in at least this
respect; it can only come about by the point of the sword.
“You must,
therefore, confess that by "individual" you mean no other person than
the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property. This person must,
indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible.”
By whom
and how is this to be done? I declare
that I want you swept out of the way and made impossible. Perpetual war is the inevitable conclusion
to communism.
“Abolition of the
family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the
Communists.”
You can
destroy your family if you want to, but I want my happy family. Will you deny my right to have a happy
family if I so choose? I extend to you
freedom to destroy your family but you deny me the like freedom to nurture my
family. You tyrant!! You despot!!!
“The bourgeois
family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both
will vanish with the vanishing of capital.”
As if
capital is what makes a happy family.
Have you commies ever heard of love?
One of the clearest examples that communism is founded on a faulty
premise.
“But, you say, we
destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by
social.”
I wish
Mr. Marx could be alive today and witness most of the commie lib leaning
liberals sending their own children to private schools due to the failure of
the public schools.
“The Communists
have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time
immemorial.”
Yes, and
God burned up all of the queers in Sodom, and wiped out the Egyptian,
Babylonian, Grecian and Roman Empires.
Have you commies ever heard of Herpes Simplex II, Gonorrhea-The Clap,
Syphilis, Crabs, Scabies, Chlamydia, Hepatitis B, C, D, E, F, HPV, and the
dreaded AIDS causing HIV?
“Bourgeois
marriage is, in reality, a system of wives in common and thus, at the most,
what the Communists might possibly be reproached with is that they desire to
introduce, in substitution for a hypocritically concealed, an openly legalized
system of free love. For the rest, it
is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of production must
bring with it the abolition of free love springing from that system, i.e., of prostitution
both public and private.”
Is Mr.
Marx calling his own mother a whore and his father a pimp? What a premise for legalized
prostitution!! Where did he live?
“The Communists
are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.”
But you
admit elsewhere that all power should be given to the state. Only Countries and Nations will have the
military power to confiscate every person’s private property. Oxymoron!!!!
“The working men
have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got.”
Does
Mr. Marx really expect us to take him seriously? Tell this to all of the working men in America!! From all faulty premises come faulty
conclusions.
“The charges
against communism made from a religious, a philosophical and, generally, from
an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination.”
You are
starting to show your hatred of God. We
say that charges against God made by commies are not deserving of serious
examination.
“Does it require
deep intuition to comprehend that man's ideas, views, and conception, in one
word, man's consciousness, changes with every change in the conditions of his
material existence, in his social relations and in his social life?”
Are you trying to tell me that there are no
wealthy people that are virtuous but that only the poor are virtuous? Faulty premise.
"There are,
besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all
states of society. But communism
abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of
constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all
past historical experience."
Atheistic
anarchy are the words for this type of belief put to practise. What if I wanted to kill all commies over
night? Who is to say that it would be
wrong since you commies abolish all concepts of morality? And you commies call Mr. Marx an
intellectual? Yes, all Commies are
atheists.
“The communist
revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional relations; no wonder that
its development involved the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.”
I
believe that this is called war, murder, bloodshed, the sad aftermath of every
communist revolution.
“The proletariat
will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the
bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the
state, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase
the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.”
This is
translated as quotas and affirmative action.
Remove those who are qualified by study and hard work and replace them
with useful idiots, stooges and obsequious sycophants. Remember Joseline Elders, Clinton’s Surgeon
General?
“Of course, in
the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on
the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means
of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable,
but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate
further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of
entirely revolutionizing the mode of production.”
You
mean the EPA, OSHA, NEA, and such like?
“Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism
a socialist tinge. Has not Christianity
declaimed against private property, against marriage, against the state? Has it not preached in the place of these,
charity and poverty, celibacy and mortification of the flesh, monastic life and
Mother Church? Christian socialism is
but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the
aristocrat.”
Too bad that Mr. Marx could not distinguish
between Roman Catholicism and Biblical Christianity.
“In short, the Communists everywhere support every
revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of
things.”
Does this mean that you accept
responsibility for the bloodshed?
“In all these
movements, they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the
property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time.”
Yes,
the crux of the matter is private property ownership. God said, “thou shalt not steal,” “thou shalt not covet.” You can only steal and covet that which is
not yours but belongs to somebody else.
It is their private property not yours.
God puts his seal of approval on private property ownership and guards against unlawful seizure.
“Finally, they
labor everywhere for the union and agreement of the democratic parties of all
countries.”
Need I
say more? It is a world wide movement.
“The Communists
disdain to conceal their views and aims.
They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible
overthrow of all existing social conditions.
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but
their chains. They have a world to win.”
What if
you atheistic commies lose your lives in the “forcible overthrow?” You have Hell to gain.