Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Communist Manifesto

Is this the jist Communist Manifesto?

The premise presents an idea how to oppose communism?
The rich and the poor, the “oppressor and oppressed” are always in constant opposition to one another. (“Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted fight.”) Recent (and probably historical) American political stances mostly involve descrepancies between the two classes: abortion, welfare, taxation, etc.
“This struggle is between those who own the means of production and those who labor for a wage.”
This means that the means to succeed contradict the forces and relations of production.

You have to sacrifice yourself in order to connect with other people… a “cash payment” ... for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions.

Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from earlier ones

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Political power is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another. If the working man organizes itself as a class and it makes itself the ruling class, it would flatten the social infrastrucutre.

They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains or dignity. They have a world to win.

WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!
A set of short-term demands, the abolition of both land ownership and of the right to inheritance, a progressive income tax, universal education, centralization of the means of communication and transport under state management, and the expansion of the means of production owned by the state. The implementation of these policies, would, the authors believed, be a precursor to the stateless and classless society.

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