Tenets of Marxism

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Tenets of Marxism
Topic Started: Jul 6 2009, 02:39 AM (23 Views)
Algol	Jul 6 2009, 02:39 AM Post #1
Private Senior First Class Posts: 84 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 3, 2009 Political Alignment: Conservative/Libertarian Xbox Live Gamertag: GRX Dragon PSN Alias: GRX3000	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 degrees, 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 of 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 the most advanced countries, the following will be 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 right 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 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 population 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, etc.



CWolf	Jul 6 2009, 11:17 AM Post #2
Novice Posts: 5 Group: Members Member #14 Joined: Jul 6, 2009	I don't really think fighting against free education is a very good idea. It's a fairly well proven fact that educated people are worth considerabely more. And you can't expect all parents to be able/feel like paying for an education. Before we had compulsory schools, most people were almost illiterate. Losing most government owned schools is a good idea, as is abolishing the DoE. However, we do need schools to be there.



Algol	Jul 6 2009, 12:00 PM Post #3
Private Senior First Class Posts: 84 Group: Admins Member #1 Joined: May 3, 2009 Political Alignment: Conservative/Libertarian Xbox Live Gamertag: GRX Dragon PSN Alias: GRX3000	CWolf Jul 6 2009, 11:17 AM I don't really think fighting against free education is a very good idea. It's a fairly well proven fact that educated people are worth considerabely more. And you can't expect all parents to be able/feel like paying for an education. Before we had compulsory schools, most people were almost illiterate. Losing most government owned schools is a good idea, as is abolishing the DoE. However, we do need schools to be there. I agree, that's why while I argue for abolishing public education, I think the public library system should itself remain entact for those who may be orphaned or what have you that're even unable to afford even the cheapest of private education. Or at least it should be up to the local city people to determine whether or not they want to keep public schools around.



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