As if on cue...

Check out my November 1st post "Marxism Part II", then read this.

This is what we're in for in an Obama presidency. Don't be surprised if not only home schooling goes away, but private schools as well.

Edit: 11/27/08
A German family is seeking asylum in the US for being persecuted for homeschooling their children. This centralization of education under the state is straight out of the Communist Manifesto and should not be ignored. Unfortunately, I can not help but think that the US will head down this very same path.

Marxism, Part II

Earlier, I listed the first five tenets of Marxism. I'd like to now add the last five:

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
8. Equal liability of all labor
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools.

I want to briefly talk about number six and number ten.

When the "means of communication" is in the hands of the state, "Big Brother is watching" become more than just a punchline.

Well, number 10 seems harmless enough, doesn't it? When you read The Communist Manifesto, it becomes a little scarier. Here's how it reads:

"Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty. But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social."

Marx fully admits his disdain for parental rights. He believes the state can educate children better than parents and replaces "home education" with "social". Leon Trotsky said in 1932, "The majority of proletarian parents reconcile themselves to the loss of part of their parental authority the more readily as the state takes over the greater part of their parental cares."

If Obama is elected, you can count on home schooling to go by the wayside. You can count on private schools being regulated by the government and told what to teach and how to teach it.

More freedoms removed...

Marxism, Part I

“Spread the wealth around”

With those four words, Barack Obama has revealed exactly what his plans are - income redistribution.

From The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx:

“…the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man's own labor, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence.”

He continues…

“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.

From the moment when labor can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rent, into a social power capable of being monopolized, i.e., from the moment when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, from that moment, you say, individuality vanishes.

You must, therefore, confess that by "individual" you mean no other person than the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property. This person must, indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible.”

Finally, the first five of his ten tenets of society:

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.



What concerns me the most is that this class warfare that has been stoked for so long is going to lead us straight down a path that’s been tried before, with miserable results.

Marxism doesn’t work.

It never has.