Woah! How many doughnuts did you bet? I owe you. Maybe it is the current political arena, but I just thought some of them sounded too....modern, perhaps? I tried searching for it on Snopes and truthorfiction, and couldn't find it so I gave up.
I guess I'll back up a step and say, I'd love to see those items listed in some 1963 Communist Manifesto. Me thinks Mrs. Nordman may have used some artistic license. I just don't believe the Communists were so thorough in enumerating the steps to their diabolical plan!
Edit: Number 23, for example. Really? That was a part of the plan?