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10 Planks of the Communist Manifesto

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 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

justgoodfolk · Accepted Answer

No, where does the American right get those planks anyway? They're nowhere to be found in the communist manifesto
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/26/176.html 
not in any other work of Marx.

Point two and four are absurd.  You don't need tax under communism. In their logic all is collectively owned. You can only tax if people have personal possessions, under communism the concept of private property is abolished for everyone so why would they have a plank about emigrants? Communists are internationalists

 Every time those planks say owned by the state they reveal their anti communist roots because in communist logic it's owned by the people, they'd never use that terminology.

This is right wing propaganda and although I'm not a communist the truth has its rights.

Anonymous · Answer

We are only about 40% of the way there, but the basic goal has almost been achieved by a modified version of the other 60% which has approximately the same effect by increasing government power to regulate rather than to do it by outright ownership of everything.

Many of the socialistic programs initiated by the Democrats were secured when the Republicans accepted them a few years later.  

Now we have the choice of welfare or warfare as the preferred means to justify raising taxes and making us work more to support the government than to support ourselves.

? · Answer

you are so accurate.  i have been living a long time and have seen the evolution of our nation into a more socialist nations and the potential for it to become even more so.

if some have their way, the government will become even more imperialistic with dissent quickly put down.

we no longer have a free press, just opinions put out to influence those who do not think for themselves and the ramifications of the bills passed in Congress.

they complain about the overwhelming budget and yet the majority of this is for entitlements to those who do not deserve it thus making funds unavailable to those who are in need.

our educational system become more socialistic in the late 60's and early 70's and that is when the educational system starting failing our young many of whom graduate without the elementary ability to read, count change or obtain a real education or skill to help them in their future.

Anonymous · Answer

I could tell you the answer, but being a Barr supporter you wouldn't understand.

TyranusXX · Answer

I would say 7 out of ten....

Anonymous · Answer

Not even close. We're as far from there as we've ever been.

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