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Now - what about America is "capitalist"?
Plank 1 - the 14th amendment, eminent domain, etc
Plank 2 - beginning with the 16th amendment and every other tax...
Plank 3 - estate tax, inheritance tax...
Plank 4 - government seizures, tax liens, anti-terrorist/immigration laws, etc
Plank 5 - the federal, fucking, reserve.
Plank 6 - FCC, interstate commerce commission, department of transportation, Amtrak, the FAA, postal service...
Plank 7 - the desert entry act, department of agriculture, department of commerce and labor, department of the interior, the EPA, bureau of land management, bureau of reclamation, bureau of mines, national park service, the IRS...
Plank 8 - social security and all the right-to-work laws
Plank 9 - the planning reorginization act of 1949, amongst other federal laws
Plank 10 - public education, although it's not exactly what you would call "universal" - but not for lack of trying, though.
The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state, i.e., of the proletariat organized 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 revolutionizing 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. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
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; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation 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 labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.
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 revolutionizing 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. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
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; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation 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 labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.
Plank 1 - the 14th amendment, eminent domain, etc
Plank 2 - beginning with the 16th amendment and every other tax...
Plank 3 - estate tax, inheritance tax...
Plank 4 - government seizures, tax liens, anti-terrorist/immigration laws, etc
Plank 5 - the federal, fucking, reserve.
Plank 6 - FCC, interstate commerce commission, department of transportation, Amtrak, the FAA, postal service...
Plank 7 - the desert entry act, department of agriculture, department of commerce and labor, department of the interior, the EPA, bureau of land management, bureau of reclamation, bureau of mines, national park service, the IRS...
Plank 8 - social security and all the right-to-work laws
Plank 9 - the planning reorginization act of 1949, amongst other federal laws
Plank 10 - public education, although it's not exactly what you would call "universal" - but not for lack of trying, though.