Hindsight is 20/#@?! Part 2
A Series on America’s Inclination toward Communism
In his own mind, Marx made it clear that the 10 planks of the Communist Party (he published in 1848) were the necessary steps America would need to take, in order for 
Communism’s utopia to finally “win-over the hearts and minds” (to paraphrase with a popular slogan) of the American people. Many years later, the Soviet Dictator, and Marxist devotee, Vladimir Lenin, when remarking about the transition strategy of Marx, said, “Communism is Socialism in a hurry.”
In my previous column, we barely scratched the surface of the beliefs of the old-world communists – briefly touching on the first 3 of the 10 planks produced by Karl Marx in the year 1848. In this article, we will pick up where we left off and continue examining the remainder of Marx’s dangerous ideals.
1848 Communist Plank no. 4: Confiscation of property from those who “misbehave.”
2005: Kelo v. City of New London. Obama’s former “Diversity Czar” praises Hugo Chavez’s recent Argentinean revolution against property owners! (See “A Call to Action,” Fox News, Friday, August 28, 2009.)
1848 Communist Plank no. 5: Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
1913: Democrat President Woodrow Wilson advocates the creation of a Federal Reserve. Congress responds by passing the Federal Reserve Act on December 23, 1913. (Marx enjoys a fleeting moment of serendipity from his prison chamber in Hades.)
2009: Democrat President Barak Obama takes unprecedented control of the banking industry in a shocking big government power grab. (See “Obama Grabs Reigns of Financial Regulation”, CBS News, June 17, 2009.)
1848 Communist Plank no. 6: Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
2009: Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia produces a 55 page bill called the “Cybersecurity Act of 2009” (S.773) that would give President Obama control of the internet. (See “President Obama’s Radical Advisors are Fighting for Revolution” Fox News, August 31, 2009.)
1848 Communist Plank no. 7: Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State…
2009: Democrat President Obama seizes power of the U.S. auto industry. (See “Washington’s Unprecedented Power Grab” by the Heritage Foundation, November 15, 2008. Also see “Obama Tougher on Autos” Associated Press, March 30th, 2009.)
1848 Communist Plank no. 10: Free education for all children in public schools.
1867: Despite the fact that the Constitution gives no power to the Federal Government to regulate education (a de-centralized system, by design, heretofore left to the regulation of the parents of local communities where educational needs were most efficiently addressed), the federalization of education begins with the formation of the original Department of Education.
1958: The first comprehensive federal legislation is passed by Congress, called the National Defense Education Act. Act is passed by congress, ironically, in response to the “Soviet Threat” in the wake of the Sputnik launch. (Karl Marx enjoys a second brief burst of pleasurable irony, as he considers how the “threat” of his communism is used to justify America’s march toward it. His delight is short-lived as he’s abruptly plunged beneath the lake of fire, by an underworld sentinel.)
2001: The largest move in the history of the nation toward rendering parental, local, and state control of education obsolete is passed through the joint effort of President George W. Bush and the late Senator Ted Kennedy. It is called “No Child Left Behind.”
Summary: Americans gradually adopted the plan of Karl Marx and bought-in to fallacy that education is a “civil-right” (rather than a privilege) about 150 years ago… Education has grown steadily worse for 100 years.
Having thoroughly examined the parallels between today’s Democratic party (a story of emergent ignorance and free-market deterioration), and 1948’s Communist Manifesto, the last thing I would want to do would be to depress anyone so unfortunate to read this series of articles, who, prior to the discovery of the facts here outlined, had been taking pleasure in their political and historical naïveté. But then, public ignorance, as seen spread over the last century, has been the greatest prevailing force in the fulfillment of Karl Marx’s dream for America’s transition from capitalism to communism. So, maybe this is just the kind of medicine we all need…a bold and fresh confrontation with political clarity!
As the legendary late Irving Kristol, (winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom) once told his friends, “A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.”
