The Pelosi Manifesto – Plank #3: A Ban On Inheritance
Here’s a very scary portion of the Communist Manifesto
The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involved the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.
But let us have done with the bourgeois objections to Communism.
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.
Why does it scare me?
Because the US House under Pelosi’s command, voted to restore the Death Tax. IE: The end of inheritance. IE: What your family worked to build up and earn is now the property of the state.
That’s right, the fruits of your or your parents labor now belongs to the Federal Government.
MN’s Delegation was split 4 – 4 on the Death Tax which narrowly passed 225 – 200 (26 Democrats bucked their party and sided with Republicans to protect family businesses from the predatory IRS)
Oddly enough Democrat Peterson from the farm rich 7th District voted with Pelosi in favor of the Death Tax, as did urbanites Ellison & McCollum and the Iron Range’s Jim Gas Tax Oberstar has never met a confiscatory tax increase he hasn’t supported.
Our 3 Republicans, Bachmann, Kline, and Paulsen voted against the Death Tax as did a Pelosi lapdog who has come under GOP scrutiny of late: Democrat Tim Walz bit the hand that feeds.
If you read through the 10 Communist Manifesto planks, you may find it odd that it doesn’t appear to be that far from what Democrats (aka Progressives) stand for. And what is scarier, it seems some of them have already been accomplished.
