This story now breaking in the British news discusses a coming Obama Admin plan to begin depopulating cities that have fallen to the avarice of America’s ruling elites == those who have sold out our nation by undercutting its economic independence.  Cities in the rust belt, cities that the Obama Admin will now finish off via state owned means of production.

That story in the media brought the following list to mind.  The bold have all accelerated in the past four months, have they not?

Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.

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.

SOURCE:  The Communist Manifesto of 1848

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