Let me summarize, if I understand you, Mark: A Marxist is someone who advocates the use of any means (especially including violent revolution) to bring about socialist dictatorship with the following objectives, and with the following proof that the U.S. is Marxist:
1. Abolition of private property in land, and application of all rents of land to public purpose.
Mark, you believe that "eminent domain," the power that “takes” through judicial process and pays market value for land for public use is Marxist. You further believe that property taxes, "environmental" regulations that affect the use of private property, and the seizure of property through forfeiture actions from criminal syndicates or drug dealers, who purchase property with money obtained through illegal means, is Marxist.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Mark, you believe that “[t]he 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and various state income taxes established a major Marxist coup in the United States many decades ago. You believe that “taxes continue to drain the lifeblood out of the American economy and greatly reduce the accumulation of desperately needed capital for future growth, business starts, job creation, and salary increases.”
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
Mark, you believe that, “[a]nother Marxian attack on private property rights is in the form of federal & state estate taxes and other inheritance taxes, which you claim have abolished, or at least, greatly diluted the right of private property owners to determine the disposition and distribution of their estates upon their death. Instead, government bureaucrats get their greedy hands involved.”
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
I don’t see that this is much different than #1, above, but apparently, Mark, you believe that without justification and without due process, the government is unlawfully seizing property through tax liens, forfeiture actions, and unlawful imprisonment of terrorists and those who speak out or write against the "government."
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Mark, you believe that “the Federal Reserve System politically manipulates interest rates and holds a monopoly on legal counterfeiting [whatever that means] in the United States.”
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the state.
Mark, you believe that due to the U.S. and state governments’ “control” over communication, transportation, aviation, postal service, AMTRAK and CONRAIL, and other outright socialist (government-owned) enterprises, we are a Marxist nation.
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.
Mark, you believe that “while the U.S. does not have vast ‘collective farms,’ we nevertheless do have a significant degree of government involvement in agriculture in the form of price support subsidies and acreage allotments and land-use controls,” and that our management of federal lands (e.g., national forest), as well as the BLM, and “the IRS control of business through corporate regulations,” means that we are Marxist.
8. Equal obligation of all to work.
Mark, you believe that the U.S. has established “industrial armies,” especially for agriculture, through the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. You believe that the national debt and inflation, caused by the “communal bank,” has caused the need for a “two-income" family and that the following is Marxist: women in the workplace (since the 1920s), the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution (giving women the right to vote), the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted socialist unions (I guess this means all unions???), affirmative action, the Federal Public Works Program, Executive Order 11000, The Equal Rights Amendment (which you believe means that women should do all work that men do – including the military – and since passage, it would make women subject to the draft).
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.
Mark, you believe that through the “Planning Reorganization Act of 1949, zoning and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public "Law" 89-136, that these are Marxist, and the Gov’ment is somehow bringing this coast to coast equalization into being.
10. Free education for all children in government schools.
Mark, you believe that the abolition of children's factory labor, and educating kids in “public schools which train the young to work for the communal debt system,” along with the Department of Education, the NEA, and Outcome-Based "Education, are Marxist.
Loren M. Lambert © September 12, 2012
1. Abolition of private property in land, and application of all rents of land to public purpose.
Mark, you believe that "eminent domain," the power that “takes” through judicial process and pays market value for land for public use is Marxist. You further believe that property taxes, "environmental" regulations that affect the use of private property, and the seizure of property through forfeiture actions from criminal syndicates or drug dealers, who purchase property with money obtained through illegal means, is Marxist.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Mark, you believe that “[t]he 16th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and various state income taxes established a major Marxist coup in the United States many decades ago. You believe that “taxes continue to drain the lifeblood out of the American economy and greatly reduce the accumulation of desperately needed capital for future growth, business starts, job creation, and salary increases.”
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
Mark, you believe that, “[a]nother Marxian attack on private property rights is in the form of federal & state estate taxes and other inheritance taxes, which you claim have abolished, or at least, greatly diluted the right of private property owners to determine the disposition and distribution of their estates upon their death. Instead, government bureaucrats get their greedy hands involved.”
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
I don’t see that this is much different than #1, above, but apparently, Mark, you believe that without justification and without due process, the government is unlawfully seizing property through tax liens, forfeiture actions, and unlawful imprisonment of terrorists and those who speak out or write against the "government."
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Mark, you believe that “the Federal Reserve System politically manipulates interest rates and holds a monopoly on legal counterfeiting [whatever that means] in the United States.”
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the state.
Mark, you believe that due to the U.S. and state governments’ “control” over communication, transportation, aviation, postal service, AMTRAK and CONRAIL, and other outright socialist (government-owned) enterprises, we are a Marxist nation.
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.
Mark, you believe that “while the U.S. does not have vast ‘collective farms,’ we nevertheless do have a significant degree of government involvement in agriculture in the form of price support subsidies and acreage allotments and land-use controls,” and that our management of federal lands (e.g., national forest), as well as the BLM, and “the IRS control of business through corporate regulations,” means that we are Marxist.
8. Equal obligation of all to work.
Mark, you believe that the U.S. has established “industrial armies,” especially for agriculture, through the Social Security Administration and The Department of Labor. You believe that the national debt and inflation, caused by the “communal bank,” has caused the need for a “two-income" family and that the following is Marxist: women in the workplace (since the 1920s), the 19th amendment of the U.S. Constitution (giving women the right to vote), the Civil Rights Act of 1964, assorted socialist unions (I guess this means all unions???), affirmative action, the Federal Public Works Program, Executive Order 11000, The Equal Rights Amendment (which you believe means that women should do all work that men do – including the military – and since passage, it would make women subject to the draft).
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.
Mark, you believe that through the “Planning Reorganization Act of 1949, zoning and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public "Law" 89-136, that these are Marxist, and the Gov’ment is somehow bringing this coast to coast equalization into being.
10. Free education for all children in government schools.
Mark, you believe that the abolition of children's factory labor, and educating kids in “public schools which train the young to work for the communal debt system,” along with the Department of Education, the NEA, and Outcome-Based "Education, are Marxist.
Loren M. Lambert © September 12, 2012
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