Happy Birthday Karl: Top 10 Goals
Of Marx' Manifesto Accomplished In America, posted by Tyler Durden 5/5/18,
written by Joe Jarvis, The Daily Bell
“1. Abolition of all
public land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.” Also
known as property taxes. Can you really say you own land if you must pay the
government every year in order to keep it? Fail to pay your rent, and they will
eventually confiscate “your” land. This money is then used for “public
purposes” like public schools (just wait for #10) and police,
who will remove you from the government’s land if you fail to pay your rent.
“2. A heavy progressive
or graduated income tax.”
“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.” FCC, FTC,
DOT, FAA, TSA, CBP–oh it’s an alphabet soup of communications and transport
regulators. They regulate the phone lines, the roadways, air traffic, rails,
mail and package delivery.
“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.” Yes,
the Communist Manifesto proposes enslaving all those unwilling to work.
“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.” The government helped create factory farming by regulating all
the small-scale producers out of business
“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.”
Plenty
of stupid ideas kill people. But one man’s stupid ideas have killed over a hundred
million people.
Karl
Marx was born 200 years ago today. And despite the utter failure of his
communist philosophy in practice, the cult lives on. Still people want to try
again… this
time they will get it right.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels originally
published The Communist Manifesto in
1848. It laid out the beliefs and action plan of the Communist Party. The goal
was to get communists of every nationality to rise up and unite to overthrow
their “capitalist oppressors.”
Little did they know their words would
be used by the likes of Stalin and Mao as justification for over 100 million murders meant to supposedly move society
forward.
In America, the goals of the communists
have crept their way into society with little fanfare. Many people have no idea
that public schools,
the graduated income tax,
and even a central state-controlled bank (like the Federal Reserve)
were tenets of the Communist Manifesto.
The points are boiled down in one
section of the manifesto to a list of ten main goals. These are the goals, in
Marx and Engels’ own words, followed by an analysis of how deeply they have
seeped into the United States governing structure.
And if the local government can fine you for keeping a front yard garden, or backyard chickens,
do you really own the land anyway? Sounds like the proletariat traded
capitalist oppressors for government oppressors.
The federal government owns outright 28% of all land in the United
States, 640 million acres.
This includes the Bureau of Land Management’s 248 million acre turf used to control or oppress political dissidents like Cliven Bundy. “The BLM is also responsible for
subsurface mineral resources in areas totaling 700 million acres.” That means
they control almost three times as much land as they own.
Each state government owns an average of
8.7% of its state’s land. This source claims the feds own over 31% of the U.S. landmass, which brings the combined state and
federal total ownership to almost 40% of all land in the USA.
And let’s not forget about eminent domain,
where the government can just take your land for “public use” (or public benefit) with “just compensation.” If the
compensation isn’t just, simply take the most powerful government on Earth to
court–courts that they own. I’m sure you will be treated fairly.
Even after the latest tax cuts, the
federal income tax rates range from 10% to 37%. According to the Wall Street Journal, the top 20% of income earners in the U.S. will pay 87% of
all income taxes this year. These people who earn $150,000 or more account for
52% of the income earned in the USA, but will pay almost all of the income
taxes, 87%.
The top 1% of earners– the evil
bourgeois making over $730,000 per year–will actually pay over 43% of all
income taxes this year. So 1% of earners who make 16% of the country’s total
income will pay 43% of the total income tax.
Sounds like way more than their “fair
share” to me, but the communists won’t be satisfied until everything is owned
by the state.
If a business is worth $15 million, the
family of the deceased would owe $1.6 million. If they don’t have $1.6 million
hanging around, they might have to dismantle the business in order to pay the
taxes. That could mean a loss of good proletariat jobs and a hit to the economy.
The same could happen to a piece of land or estate that has been in the family
for generations. State level estate taxes add additional costs, sometimes with
lower exemptions.
But the communists are smart, they
demonize the people they rob. So no one feels bad for “the rich” because they
will have plenty left over when the government is done with them. Although that
too could change…
Let’s start with
the Exit Tax. Why don’t you just move out of America if you don’t like the taxes?
Well, America taxes it’s citizens worldwide, even if they do not live or work
in the USA. Why not renounce your citizenship then? That is one option. But it’s actually not free. In fact, the U.S.
confiscates a serious percentage of property from emigrants. It is called the Exit Tax. It
gets complicated, but basically, the government is going to tax you on your net
worth, as if you just sold all your assets.
If you don’t have the liquid cash to cover that, you would actually have to
start selling assets–property, stocks, etc.–in order to pay the Exit Tax. Of
course, you would be taxed on the income or capital gains first, and then would have to pay the
exit tax with what is left over… The good news (?) is you would have less
overall net worth to be taxed upon your renunciation.
Okay, but again, a big part of being a
communist is hating rich people. People with less than $700,000 of capital
gains in their net worth are much less affected by the exit tax.
So let’s turn to confiscation of rebel’s
property that affects the poorest proletariat… civil asset forfeiture.
This is often used again poor people who
cannot afford to defend themselves in court. The police simply steal property
or cash that they “suspect” was involved in some type of crime, without having
to prove anything. You have to prove your innocence if you want your car,
house, or cash back.
So if cops think a wad of cash came from
selling drugs, it’s theirs. If they think your car was bought with the proceeds
of drug sales, maybe because they found an ounce of weed and some baggies, they
can take the car, without charging you with a drug dealing.
Police seized over $50,000 from a
Christian Rock band that had collected donations for an orphanage. Between 2001 and 2016,
“more than $2.5 billion in cash seizures had occurred on the nation’s
highways without either a search warrant or an indictment.”
And that’s not even counting the more
than $3.2 billion the DEA has seized since 2007 without filing civil or criminal
charges.
Just having cash is a pretty low bar to
be considered a rebel. Then again, what should we expect from a communist
doctrine?
I wonder if today’s communists are
aware of this one. They can’t possibly think the Federal Reserve helps the
proletariat, yet that is exactly what the manifesto describes.
Some people might disagree that the
Federal Reserve is state owned. Technically it has a private board, although board members are appointed by politicians. I suppose in that sense you could call
it more fascist than communist–the government doesn’t own the bank, the bank
owns the government.
The Fed sets the interest rates, prints
money, and finances much of the debt of the United States government. Without
the Fed, it would be much harder for the government to control the people–the
homes they buy, the loans they get, the interest on their savings, and even how
much of that savings is robbed through inflation.
This is nothing new. Around the same
time, Marx was writing the manifesto, Lysander Spooner was doing something
productive with his time. Spooner started the American Letter Mail Company to compete with the U.S. Postal
Service. He undercut their prices and provided better customer service, but was
fined and cited for breaking laws which protected the government monopoly. He
was forced out of business in 1851.
The government doesn’t quite have
control over the internet, but they did create the conditions to allow a handful of companies control
access to the internet.
The NSA monitors every communication,
and the Department of Homeland Security commissioned a database to track all
journalists and media influencers who mention the DHS. Customs and Border Protection performs unconstitutional searches at the
border, whether you are
an American or foreign.
And of course, you can’t go out in
public without running the risk of being harassed by local, state, and federal police. You don’t have the right to
travel without justifying every action to a police officer, while they often get off scot-free for
murder.
The state has certainly dabbled in
factory ownership, like the GM bailout. They
control utilities like water and power. And they have certainly subsidized
their fair share of business from oil and solar panels to
sugar and corn.
We can refer back to #1 to see how much
land the government controls, often under the auspices of improving soil and
protecting wastelands.
Then there are plenty of government
contractors which are basically the same thing as a government-owned company.
If 100% of their revenue comes from the government, they are not a private
company. This is especially prominent in the defense industry, which is where
the term military-industrial-complex
comes from. And then think about the roads the government contracts out to
build. The government spends about 34% of the GDP every year. That is a significant percentage of
the economy which the government owns.
Now, it might not seem like the U.S.
government forces people to work. But you have to make money just to park your
ass on a plot of land. Local governments want property taxes, which means you
must make a certain amount of money just to have a place to live.
Otherwise, you could conceivably save up
for a piece of land, and once you buy it outright, you would be done. But even
renting has the built-in costs of property tax. And the fact that the
government claims the authority to tax you on everything you earn basically
means you have a liability to labor for the government if you want to labor at
all.
Most of us cannot go through life
without earning something to pay for necessities. But we can’t just earn what
we need, we must earn way more than we need because the government will take a
huge chunk of our income.
We tend to think about taxes as a
percentage of our income. But what about as a percentage of our time? The
government forces you to work as its slave from about January through April
every year. In a typical career, you will spend in total more than 14 full
years working as a slave for the government.
Reason reports that
USDA regulations have forced small slaughterhouses to close in favor of large
factory-style slaughterhouses. This might sound like a good idea at first. But
consider that when one infected animal makes its way to a slaughterhouse, it
can contaminate so much meat.
Having many slaughterhouses distributed
across the U.S. meant that any infections were localized, and affected far
fewer people. Plus when the slaughterhouse is local, it is easier to know the
owners and see the conditions for yourself. The animals are raised closer to
home, also providing more opportunity for market oversight of the process. No
hiding away from the consumers on a vast gated factory ranch.
The U.S. government has long subsidized
large crop producers, which makes it that much harder for smaller farms to
compete. It started with the Farm Bill in 1933 and continues to this day. What we get is cheap, but unhealthy
products. And even though the products on the shelf look cheap, we already paid
for them with our tax dollars. The problem is, I don’t want to buy unhealthy
things loaded with high fructose corn syrup. But my money will pay for that
crap whether I like it or not. Then I have to spend my money on healthy items
that are more expensive because they have to compete with subsidized products.
That’s where the government incentives for factory farming have got us.
American communists got this goal in
place just four years after the Communist Manifesto was published, with
Massachusetts enacting the first compulsory public education law in 1852. After
that, it was only a matter of time until the population was indoctrinated to
believe whatever the government taught them.
The book Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the
Torment of Adolescence delves in depth into the history and injustice of
compulsory schooling. It was designed so that the state and corporations could
work together to train an obedient workforce, with the public footing the bill.
The point was not open minds and a
desire to learn. The aim of the education was setting students up for whatever
mediocre to low paying jobs the industrialists wanted them to fill.
The communists succeeded in getting
exactly what they wanted out of American schools. And today we see the growing gap
between what people learn in school, and what skills they actually need for
good jobs. The communists have got the American education system stuck in a
stagnant philosophy of industrial labor.
Of course, they did it with supposedly
the best intentions. Sounds like a good idea to save kids from dangerous work.
But in the process, they also robbed children and young adults of their autonomy and choice. They forced kids against their will into
a government institution and set the course for their entire lives. And that is
the most important lesson that the communists want to teach in schools. It is
all about obedience to government.
Karl
Marx is like the anti-Midas. Everything
his philosophy touches turns to shit. Is it any wonder that America is stagnating?
You cannot grow with a communist philosophy. It doesn’t take into account the
beautiful creative independence of individuals. It treats people like cattle.
It robs people of the rewards of their labor. I rue this day, 200 years ago.
You don’t have to play by the rules of the corrupt politicians, manipulative
media, and brainwashed peers.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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