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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 accord- ance 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 the

distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of the popula- tion over the country 10. Free education for all children in public schools; abolition of child factory labor
in its present form; combination of education with industrial production.

His next publication was "Das Kapital" which became the bible of the communist party. He felt that capitalists robbed laborers of ther output - that laborers were exploited and would face increasing misery if capitalism developed further. Marx preached revolution after which a dictatorship of the proletariat would emerge in which the workers would exercise control through the state. After all elements of capitalism were erased, the state would die on the vine leaving a classless, communal society; thus the communist doctrine: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". Let's look at a modern version of communism to see if this is how it works.

Todd Bensman, a staff writer for the Dallas Morning News wrote an article entitled Students' Cuba Trip Revealing; UTD business group finds stifled capitalists. In May of 1996 the UTD students took a nine day fact finding trip to Cuba. The class instructor, Enrique Santos had fled Cuba as a child. What the students found there was bartenders paying for a shot at working one shift a week in the tourist hotels in the hope of putting a few dollars in their pockets. Some perservering capitalists were taking weeks to compile the components of a single cigar they would sell for $15.00. Acquiring land was so complicated and difficult that some couples divorced so that one could marry a landowner in a previously arranged agreement that the new couple would divorce, and the first couple remarry and keep some land.

Gentry Sharpe, a Nortel employee and one of the students said that he met intelligent, capable black people like himself in Cuba who crave opportunity. Others said that the series of official and not very revealing lectures by socialist academics and industry officials at the University of Havana were not very enlightening, but that the mingling

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