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The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the one writing that would change the world forever. In theory, communism solves some problems, and creates other problems. If it actually worked according to theory, it might not be half bad. In practice, communism has NEVER been an effective form of government. Nor has socialism.

A communism puts limits on everything. You are told what to do and how to do it. You are not taught HOW to think, you are taught WHAT to think. You can look at examples from the past. Many countries, Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia, and actually, examples can be found in present day text books of this, in schools, ask the students questions that don't teach them to think, but what to think. If I ask you "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" And tell you to give me a Yes or No answer, no matter WHAT you say, the result is the same. By answering Yes, you say that you USED to beat your wife but have quit. If you answer NO, then you are still beating her. There is no room in such systems for anything the government disagrees with.

In communism, people are expendable. Government has the least respect for it's people. In fact, the less people the better, fewer people to feed, clothe, and house. In essence, Communism puts man above God, provided of course, it doesn't say there IS no God in which case, man becomes God. The people under communism are controlled and manipulated, usually through fear and threats. A communist form of government doesn't want the people to have anything, as is made clear in the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto.

Before I delve deeper into these matters, what are the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto?

1. Abolition of private property and the 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 hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communications and transportation 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 liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition

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