“But they are all equally culpable in waging a campaign that sooner or later, must destroy civilization, if allowed to run its ruinous course.”
Socialism. Progressivism, Fabianism and Communism have the same goals. They simply had and have different means of achieving those goals.
The Marxist socialists and German national socialists under Hitler were impatient and willing to kill thousands to achieve their goals quickly.
The European Fabian Socialists believed in achieving power gradually. The Communists failed to achieve victory over the United States using external military force and failed to make progress with the American people because the population is armed. Therefore, for several decades, the Communists have used the gradual approach so as not to panic the armed American people.
Through the information media and education establishment, the Communists have gradually deceived, dumbed-down and brainwashed public school and college students, making it easy to elect communist sympathizers to public office. During his seven-year reign, President Obama has been able to implement numerous socialist programs including Obamacare. The next president could fully implement a socialist government and if so inclined enforce it with a dictatorship.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the Democrat Socialist candidate for president challenging Hilary Clinton, calls himself a Democratic Socialist. His long-term goals are the same as those of Karl Marx and Fredrich Engles. He is as patient as they were willing and anxious to use violence to speed up implementation.
The “Ten Planks of Communism” that were considered very radical when they were written by Marx, are almost universally accepted today. Republican President George W. Bush supported some and RINO Republican candidates advocate others to this day.
The “ten planks,” part of
the Communist Manifesto
written by Marx, are still used as goals by Democratic Socialists, Progressives, Communists and RINO Republicans currently:
1. Abolition of private property (land) ownership.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all immigrants 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 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 wastelands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability 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 equitable 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.
Numbers 2, 5, 6, and 10 have already been partially or completely implemented in the United States. Most of the others are well on their way to implementation.
Number 1, the ownership of private property has been partially achieved through excessive taxation, and confiscation if taxes are delinquent. Environmental regulations implemented through United Nations Agenda 21 have drastically limited the use and sale of private property.
The New American magazine has concluded that: “The Communist program of Karl Marx is being brought to fruition in the United States and the rest of the Western world, but largely without revolution, bloodshed and purges – at least not yet.
“But in America, the decades after the Civil War saw the birth of a new political movement every bit as foreign to American traditions and hostile to personal liberty as revolutionary communism, but with a gentler countenance: Progressivism!
“Birthed as a movement for broad social reform in Europe and the United States, by the end of the 19th century, the ‘Progressive’ Agenda had won many adherents in Washington, including Theodore Roosevelt and Indiana Senator Albert Beveridge”
Leading progressives were President Woodrow Wilson and educator John Dewey.
Returning to current presidential candidates, the New American concludes that the only difference between Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and Progressive Socialist Republicans is that Sanders is a “little more honest.”
