Marxism in America!

[Guest oldfella]

This man is very credible, check it out - check out the other videos as well

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"Marxism in America" Lt. Gen. (Ret.) W.G. Boykin Video |

VOTE SMART!

[styx]

Yes, it is definately wakeup time for this country!!

[Guest 6.8 AR]

Everything he said is right. I hope that video is seen by all.

[East_TN_Patriot]

As a fellow who is almost done with his PhD in one of the social sciences, I can speak first-hand at how neo-Marxist ideas permeate politics, economics, and education in the US. It has been a very slow progression since the early 1900s when 'progressive' politics was imported from Europe and it accelerated after WWII. It has been such a subtle and gradual process that the majority of Americans have no idea it has happened and they naturally assume it is just part of the way of the world. It exists through the labor unions - all of them, yes, all of them since they all have their origins in the Marxist ideology in some way. It exists through ideas such as 'social justice' and 'progressive' politics. The minimum wage, public schools, estate and inheritance tax, and the progressive income tax that we have in the US are straight from the Communist Manifesto and related ideology. If you have not actually read that document, you need to. It's as essential as the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence because it serves as the most concise statement of how the socialist movement intends to destroy the democratic republic we have in the US. From the Manifesto:

We have seen above, that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.

Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production.

These measures will, of course, be different in different countries. 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. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6. Centralisation 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 liability 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 labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c, &c.

Here is an excerpt of a document titled "A Communist Confession of Faith" published in 1847:

Question 15:

Do you intend to replace the existing social order by community of Property at one stroke?

Answer:

We have no such intention. The development of the masses cannot he ordered by decree. It is determined by the development of the conditions in which these masses live, and therefore proceeds gradually.

Question 16:

How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected?

Answer:

The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.

Question 17:

What will be your first measure once you have established democracy?

Answer:

Guaranteeing the subsistence of the proletariat.

Question 18:

How will you do this?

Answer.

I. By limiting private property in such a way that it gradually prepares the way for its transformation into social property, e. g., by progressive taxation, limitation of the right of inheritance in favour of the state, etc., etc.

II. By employing workers in national workshops and factories and on national estates.

III. By educating all children at the expense of the state.

Question 19:

How will you arrange this kind of education during the period of transition?

Answer:

All children will be educated in state establishments from the time when they can do without the first maternal care.

Take this info for what it is and interpret as you wish. The link to these documents in full is here: Manifesto of the Communist Party

[Guest 6.8 AR]

That was a great post

East_TN_Patriot. That's the way I learned it, too, but

I stopped a bit earlier in the degree dept. Congrats to the future doctorate.

And, being a union member, I can vouch for that part, intimately.