Concerning Marxist Socialism

[Polynikes]

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx stated that the Communist revolution would inevitably lead to the following in most advanced countries:

(I'm only to discuss half right now)

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels

6. Centralization of trhe means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.

8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture

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.



Do you think we have implemented several of his recommendations, partially implemented or not implemented each of Marx's recommendations in the United States?

Give specific examples of laws, policies or traditions that suggest we have or have not, or partially.

 

[Khayembii Communique]

However much that state of things may have altered during the last twenty-five years, the general principles laid down in the Manifesto are, on the whole, as correct today as ever. Here and there, some detail might be improved. The practical application of the principles will depend, as the Manifesto itself states, everywhere and at all times, on the historical conditions for the time being existing, and, for that reason, no special stress is laid on the revolutionary measures proposed at the end of Section II. That passage would, in many respects, be very differently worded today. In view of the gigantic strides of Modern Industry since 1848, and of the accompanying improved and extended organization of the working class, in view of the practical experience gained, first in the February Revolution, and then, still more, in the Paris Commune, where the proletariat for the first time held political power for two whole months, this programme has in some details been antiquated. One thing especially was proved by the Commune, viz., that “the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes.”

-Marx, Preface to the 1872 German Edition