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cthulu2016

(10,960 posts) Sat Apr 14, 2012, 12:18 PM Apr 2012

...you just may be a Communist

Some demands made in the Communist Manifesto (1848)

• A heavy progressive or graduated income tax

• Centralisation of credit by means of a national bank

• Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State

• Free education for all children in public schools

• Abolition of children's factory labour

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...you just may be a Communist (Original Post) cthulu2016 Apr 2012 OP

Tee-hee. Interesting to contrast with these snippets of the 1956 Republican Party platform coalition_unwilling Apr 2012 #1

Yup. cthulu2016 Apr 2012 #2

coalition_unwilling

(14,180 posts)

1. Tee-hee. Interesting to contrast with these snippets of the 1956 Republican Party platform

Reply to cthulu2016 (Original post)

Sat Apr 14, 2012, 12:22 PM

Apr 2012

which sounds suspiciously similar, if not even further to the left:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002560884

cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)

2. Yup.

Reply to coalition_unwilling (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 14, 2012, 12:27 PM

Apr 2012

One the other hand I am surprised that more conservatives today do not use the Communist Manifesto to denounce things like public education, or the income tax.

Fortunately they are a pretty ignorant lot.

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