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Where is this descent into Marxism taking place?
Now, for future reference, though there are different types of communism and Marxism, these are the basic ten points described in the communist manifesto about what the proletariat should do once it takes over power:
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.
Now, the fact is that labor unions and communist parties around the world managed to get a lot of concessions for the general population, so radical ideas of communist parties of the past are basically taken for granted nowadays (public education, end of child labor), but the key points of communism remain, and so other than using it as scare tactics, I would love to see the actual examples of this descent into marxism.
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