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SeekLiberty
06-29-2007, 02:34 AM
TEN PLANKS OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

Could this be happening in America? If so, how?

Our "elected representatives" have passed laws implementing these anti-freedom concepts. The communists have achieved a de facto FEDERAL SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT in America.

In 1848 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote a book outlining a political ideology, titled "The Communist Manifesto". Marxism's basic theme is that the proletariat (the "exploited" working class of a capitalistic society) will suffer from alienation and will rise up against the "bourgeoisie" (the middle class) and overthrow the system of "capitalism." After a brief period of rule by "the dictatorship of the proletariat" the classless society of communism would emerge. In his Manifesto Marx described the following ten steps as necessary steps to be taken to destroy a free enterprise society!! Notice how many of these conditions, foreign to the principles that America was founded upon, have now, in 1997, been realized by the concerted efforts of socialist activists? Remember, government interference in your daily life and business is intrusion and deprivation of our liberties!

First Plank: Abolition of property in land and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.

(Zoning - Model ordinances proposed by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover widely adopted. Supreme Court ruled "zoning" to be "constitutional" in 1921. Private owners of property required to get permission from government relative to the use of their property. Federally owned lands are leased for grazing, mining, timber usages, the fees being paid into the U.S. Treasury. If you don't pay your tax, they then take your land. So nobody truly owns their property. Supreme Court ruling that the Eminent domain clause can be used for the benefit of corporations.)

Second Plank: A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

(Corporate Tax Act of 1909. The 16th Amendment, allegedly ratified in 1913. The Revenue Act of 1913, section 2, Income Tax. These laws have been purposely misapplied against American citizens to this day.)

Third Plank: Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

(Partially accomplished by enactment of various state and federal "estate tax" laws taxing the "privilege" of transfering property after death and gift before death. Wealthy people can use trusts to dodge estate taxes.)

Fourth Plank: CONFISCATION OF THE PROPERTY OF ALL EMIGRANTS AND REBELS.

(The confiscation of property and persecution of those critical - "rebels" - of government policies and actions, frequently accomplished by prosecuting them in a courtroom drama on charges of violations of non-existing administrative or regulatory laws.)

Fifth Plank: Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

(The Federal Reserve Bank, 1913- -the system of privately-owned Federal Reserve banks which maintain a monopoly on the valueless debt "money" in circulation.)

Sixth Plank: Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State.

(Federal Radio Commission, 1927; Federal Communications Commission, 1934; Air Commerce Act of 1926; Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938; Federal Aviation Agency, 1958; becoming part of the Department of Transportation in 1966; Federal Highway Act of 1916 (federal funds made available to States for highway construction); Interstate Highway System, 1944 (funding began 1956); Interstate Commerce Commission given authority by Congress to regulate trucking and carriers on inland waterways, 1935-40; Department of Transportation, 1966. The Internet is a notable exception to state control of communication, so far.)

Seventh Plank: 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.

(Department of Agriculture, 1862; Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1933 -- farmers will receive government aid if and only if they relinquish control of farming activities; Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933 with the Hoover Dam completed in 1936.)

Eighth Plank: Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies especially for agriculture.

(First labor unions, known as federations, appeared in 1820. National Labor Union established 1866. American Federation of Labor established 1886. Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 placed railways under federal regulation. Department of Labor, 1913. Labor-management negotiations sanctioned under Railway Labor Act of 1926. Civil Works Administration, 1933. National Labor Relations Act of 1935, stated purpose to free inter-state commerce from disruptive strikes by eliminating the cause of the strike. Works Progress Administration 1935. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, mandated 40-hour work week and time-and-a-half for overtime, set "minimum wage" scale. Civil Rights Act of 1964, effectively the equal liability of all to labor.)

Ninth Plank: Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country.

(Food processing companies, with the co-operation of the Farmers Home Administration foreclosures, are buying up farms and creating "conglomerates.")

Tenth Plank: Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.

(Gradual shift from private education to publicly funded began in the Northern States, early 1800's. 1887: federal money (unconstitutionally) began funding specialized education. Smith-Lever Act of 1914, vocational education; Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 and other relief acts of the 1930's. Federal school lunch program of 1935; National School Lunch Act of 1946. National Defense Education Act of 1958, a reaction to Russia's Sputnik satellite demonstration, provided grants to education's specialties. Federal school aid law passed, 1965, greatly enlarged federal role in education, "head-start" programs, textbooks, library books.)

http://www.criminalgovernment.com/docs/planks.html

(Research source: Encyclopedia Britannica.)

ChooseLiberty
06-29-2007, 04:37 AM
Reading that now it just seems stupid doesn't it?

How did entire nations got suckered into that?

MsDoodahs
06-29-2007, 06:44 AM
Yep, it's here.

fsk
06-29-2007, 07:36 AM
I was about to post on this topic in my blog. By my count, 9/10 planks have been implemented. Wealthy people can use trusts to dodge estate taxes, so that plank isn't fully implemented. The Internet is a notable exception to state control of communication, so that plank isn't fully implemented.

http://fskrealityguide.blogspot.com/2007/06/communist-manifestos-successful.html

Let me know if you like any of the other content. I'm looking for feedback.

Man from La Mancha
06-29-2007, 07:45 AM
You can add to #1 that if you don't pay your tax they then take your land. So nobody really owns their property

tnvoter
06-29-2007, 07:57 AM
great post, very awakening

beerista
06-29-2007, 10:52 AM
Pretty unsurprising that this should happen in a country in which large numbers (by some reports, a majority) think that the words "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" appear in the Constitution.
To a disinterested observer, American history must be hysterical. Fear and loathing of Communism is used for decades to keep people scared and compliant while our own founding document is subverted and replaced little by little with the tenets of the founding document of the "enemy." As I'm not a disinterested observer, I don't find it very funny.

As a side note, it is the Tenth Plank that allows for all the others to go by unnoticed or to be eagerly embraced. Once you concede that one Plank, the others (or some other equal tyranny) are sure to follow.

SeekLiberty
06-29-2007, 12:14 PM
I was about to post on this topic in my blog. By my count, 9/10 planks have been implemented. Wealthy people can use trusts to dodge estate taxes, so that plank isn't fully implemented. The Internet is a notable exception to state control of communication, so that plank isn't fully implemented.

http://fskrealityguide.blogspot.com/2007/06/communist-manifestos-successful.html

Let me know if you like any of the other content. I'm looking for feedback.

Thank you for the addition. I've edited the list and added them in bold.

- SL

SeekLiberty
06-29-2007, 12:15 PM
You can add to #1 that if you don't pay your tax they then take your land. So nobody really owns their property

Thanks for your addition. I've edited the list and also added it in bold.

- SL

SeekLiberty
06-29-2007, 12:18 PM
I believe this list shows exactly what Ron Paul means when he says, "The American Republic is in remnant status."

It's hanging on by a thread. But we're all here to revitalize it with Ron! :D

- SL

Bryan
06-29-2007, 12:46 PM
Pretty unsurprising that this should happen in a country in which large numbers (by some reports, a majority) think that the words "from each according to his abilities,
The more typical phrased used in America is to "pay your fair share" - certainly a principle of Communism and completely unfounded in the US Constitution in any way.

lucius
06-29-2007, 02:37 PM
TEN PLANKS OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

Could this be happening in America? If so, how?

Our "elected representatives" have passed laws implementing these anti-freedom concepts. The communists have achieved a de facto FEDERAL SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT in America.

In 1848 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote a book outlining a political ideology, titled "The Communist Manifesto". Marxism's basic theme is that the proletariat (the "exploited" working class of a capitalistic society) will suffer from alienation and will rise up against the "bourgeoisie" (the middle class) and overthrow the system of "capitalism." After a brief period of rule by "the dictatorship of the proletariat" the classless society of communism would emerge. In his Manifesto Marx described the following ten steps as necessary steps to be taken to destroy a free enterprise society!! Notice how many of these conditions, foreign to the principles that America was founded upon, have now, in 1997, been realized by the concerted efforts of socialist activists? Remember, government interference in your daily life and business is intrusion and deprivation of our liberties!

First Plank: Abolition of property in land and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.

(Zoning - Model ordinances proposed by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover widely adopted. Supreme Court ruled "zoning" to be "constitutional" in 1921. Private owners of property required to get permission from government relative to the use of their property. Federally owned lands are leased for grazing, mining, timber usages, the fees being paid into the U.S. Treasury. If you don't pay your tax, they then take your land. So nobody truly owns their property. Supreme Court ruling that the Eminent domain clause can be used for the benefit of corporations.)

Second Plank: A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

(Corporate Tax Act of 1909. The 16th Amendment, allegedly ratified in 1913. The Revenue Act of 1913, section 2, Income Tax. These laws have been purposely misapplied against American citizens to this day.)

Third Plank: Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

(Partially accomplished by enactment of various state and federal "estate tax" laws taxing the "privilege" of transfering property after death and gift before death. Wealthy people can use trusts to dodge estate taxes.)

Fourth Plank: CONFISCATION OF THE PROPERTY OF ALL EMIGRANTS AND REBELS.

(The confiscation of property and persecution of those critical - "rebels" - of government policies and actions, frequently accomplished by prosecuting them in a courtroom drama on charges of violations of non-existing administrative or regulatory laws.)

Fifth Plank: Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.

(The Federal Reserve Bank, 1913- -the system of privately-owned Federal Reserve banks which maintain a monopoly on the valueless debt "money" in circulation.)

Sixth Plank: Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State.

(Federal Radio Commission, 1927; Federal Communications Commission, 1934; Air Commerce Act of 1926; Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938; Federal Aviation Agency, 1958; becoming part of the Department of Transportation in 1966; Federal Highway Act of 1916 (federal funds made available to States for highway construction); Interstate Highway System, 1944 (funding began 1956); Interstate Commerce Commission given authority by Congress to regulate trucking and carriers on inland waterways, 1935-40; Department of Transportation, 1966. The Internet is a notable exception to state control of communication, so far.)

Seventh Plank: 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.

(Department of Agriculture, 1862; Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1933 -- farmers will receive government aid if and only if they relinquish control of farming activities; Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933 with the Hoover Dam completed in 1936.)

Eighth Plank: Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies especially for agriculture.

(First labor unions, known as federations, appeared in 1820. National Labor Union established 1866. American Federation of Labor established 1886. Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 placed railways under federal regulation. Department of Labor, 1913. Labor-management negotiations sanctioned under Railway Labor Act of 1926. Civil Works Administration, 1933. National Labor Relations Act of 1935, stated purpose to free inter-state commerce from disruptive strikes by eliminating the cause of the strike. Works Progress Administration 1935. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, mandated 40-hour work week and time-and-a-half for overtime, set "minimum wage" scale. Civil Rights Act of 1964, effectively the equal liability of all to labor.)

Ninth Plank: Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country.

(Food processing companies, with the co-operation of the Farmers Home Administration foreclosures, are buying up farms and creating "conglomerates.")

Tenth Plank: Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.

(Gradual shift from private education to publicly funded began in the Northern States, early 1800's. 1887: federal money (unconstitutionally) began funding specialized education. Smith-Lever Act of 1914, vocational education; Smith-Hughes Act of 1917 and other relief acts of the 1930's. Federal school lunch program of 1935; National School Lunch Act of 1946. National Defense Education Act of 1958, a reaction to Russia's Sputnik satellite demonstration, provided grants to education's specialties. Federal school aid law passed, 1965, greatly enlarged federal role in education, "head-start" programs, textbooks, library books.)

http://www.criminalgovernment.com/docs/planks.html

(Research source: Encyclopedia Britannica.)

Thanks for bringing this up. There is a glaring piece of the puzzle in the British Museum: two checks for several thousand pounds each made out to Karl Marx, and signed by Nathan Rothschild. Marxism has always been a manual of action, well funded and benefits, the world financial elite.

No matter, I got a big grin on my face today; the immigration bill is dead! The winds-of-change are starting to rise. The sleeping giant, America, slowly awakens. Go Dr. Paul Go!

Interesting link:

http://www.alor.org/Library/FabianSo...tAdvance.h tm

The Fabian Socialist Contribution to the Communist Advance

ecliptic
06-30-2007, 04:39 PM
To a disinterested observer, American history must be hysterical. Fear and loathing of Communism is used for decades to keep people scared and compliant while our own founding document is subverted and replaced little by little with the tenets of the founding document of the "enemy."

Later, a new threat was needed to frighten the People into "agreeing" to further destruction of the Constitution and voila! Terrorism appeared right on cue! ( ... almost as if we had trained and armed (http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html) the very enemy who "attacked" us - or at least whom we were told attacked us )

Nathan Pannbacker
07-03-2007, 10:35 PM
This is a bit on the radical side. The old 10 planks argument should be presented in a minimalist form for public consumption and no more. For the sake of our credibility when trying to show this to others present as "done and lost" only those planks for which an overwhelming argument as free as possible of nitpicks can be made.

timosman
07-28-2018, 02:44 AM
Thanks for bringing this up. There is a glaring piece of the puzzle in the British Museum: two checks for several thousand pounds each made out to Karl Marx, and signed by Nathan Rothschild. Marxism has always been a manual of action, well funded and benefits, the world financial elite.

No matter, I got a big grin on my face today; the immigration bill is dead! The winds-of-change are starting to rise. The sleeping giant, America, slowly awakens. Go Dr. Paul Go!

Interesting link:

http://www.alor.org/Library/FabianSo...tAdvance.h tm

The Fabian Socialist Contribution to the Communist Advance

http://www.alor.org/Library/Butler%20ED%20-%20Fabian%20Socialist%20Contribution%20to%20the%20 Communist%20Advance.htm



The Fabian Socialist Contribution
to the Communist Advance
by Eric Butler

"...who, remembering that those (policies of high taxation and centralisation of credit) were the demands of the Manifesto (issued by Marx and Engels in 1848), can doubt our common inspiration." - Professor Harold Laski, famous Fabian Socialist theoretician in his Appreciation of the Communist Manifesto for the Labour Party (1948).

INTRODUCTION

This booklet is an expansion of a paper I gave at the 1963 Annual Seminar of The Australian League of Rights. The considerable interest in this paper clearly indicated that the subject matter of the paper should be dealt with more extensively. This booklet does not pretend to be an exhaustive examination of what is a vast and complex subject. But it does seek to provide sufficient evidence to demonstrate that so far from providing a defence against the Communist advance, the Fabian Socialist movement has materially aided and abetted that advance.
It is not suggested, however, that every person attracted to the Fabian-Socialist movement is a conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy. Far from it. The truth is that many sincere and well-meaning people, concerned about the problems of society, and lacking any clear understanding of the values upon which western civilization has been erected, have been attracted towards the idea of extending State power, but have selected what has appeared to be the more moderate approach of the Fabian Socialists as distinct from the more openly revolutionary approach of the Marxist Socialists.
But once those balances in society which protect the individual against tyranny, are upset to a certain stage by the many legal techniques of concentrating power devised by the Fabians, Parliament itself could be used to bring the Communists to power.
Khrushchev clearly had this in mind when in his historic report to the 20th Communist Congress in Moscow, February 14, 1956, he raised the question of whether is it possible to go over to socialism by using parliamentary means.
This is a question which must concern all those who want to gain an understanding of all policies which today aid the world-wide forces of revolution. It is hoped that this booklet will make a contribution towards developing this understanding.
ERIC D. BUTLER. Melbourne, February, 1964.

The Fabian Socialist Contribution to the Communist Advance

The great Lord Acton, famous for his observation that all power tends to corrupt, also made the penetrating statement that "Few discoveries are more irritating than those which expose the pedigree of ideas".
The purpose of this study is to trace the pedigree and the development of the ideas which have produced the Fabian Socialist movement as one of the principal contributions to the mounting forces of a world-wide revolution threatening the basic foundations of Western and Christian civilization.
The very suggestion that the Fabian Socialist movement has played a vital role in furthering the Communist advance, still less has had any close connection with Communism, will naturally be regarded with great indignation by all those who have uncritically accepted the widespread view that the Fabians have been a "moderate" influence in politics and economics. And the very fact that the Fabians and other Socialist groups have been attacked by the Marxist-Leninists, is offered as sufficiently convincing evidence that so far from "moderate" Socialists assisting the Communist advance, they are in fact the only real barrier to Communism.

But as one of the famous architects of the British Welfare State, Sir William Beveridge, said, his programme was one of going "half-way to Moscow". Beveridge was a leading Fabian. His description of Socialism is a realistic one; an admission that it is moving in the same direction as the Marxists, only not as fast, and, as many sincere Socialists believe, not as far.

Must Look Beyond Labels
It cannot be stressed too often that those who are going to make an effective contribution to the struggle against the Communist challenge, must always look beyond political labels, propaganda, smokescreens, and mere verbal battles to the reality behind them.

And what is the basic reality shared by all brands of Socialists?
They all believe in the centralisation of power; they all advance the idea that the power of Government should be increased. Some Socialists - and many who call themselves anti-Socialists - genuinely believe, of course, that it is possible to implement a policy of centralised control and centralised planning, and then successfully call a halt at a certain stage. They are like the girl who argued that just a little bit of pregnancy was all right!

Unfortunately history has proved that once policies of centralised control are set in motion, they progressively gain momentum, and that as the momentum grows, the moderates responsible for the initial impetus either have to become more ruthless in order to attempt to deal with the results of the increased momentum, or they are pushed aside by those who have no scruples about being ruthless in the exercising of centralised power.

Every increase in the power of Government is at the expense of the individual, who, as he loses not only power to make decisions for himself, but also loses his sense of personal responsibility, tends to become more and more satisfied to depend upon the State. It is the undermining of the individual's belief in the basic principle of true freedom and the personal responsibility which goes with it, that has had such a deadly "softening up" effect on the peoples of the non-Communist world, and thus seriously lowered their resistance to the Communist challenge.

The Fabian Socialists have not only made a major contribution towards this weakened resistance; they have provided a smokescreen which has hidden the activities of both secret and known Communists. In a secret message sent from London to the Internationale in Geneva in 1870, Karl Marx said that the English would never make their own revolution, and that foreigners would have to make it for them.
But there are not only violent revolutionary activities; there is such a thing as a silent revolution, the undermining of a nation and its institutions from within. This is what the Fabian Socialists set out to accomplish.

Their policy was one of influencing all other political groups by infiltration and permeation. This policy has been aptly described as one of Sovietism by Stealth. The Fabian Society, which took its name from Fabius Cunctator, the Roman dictator who eventually defeated Hannibal as a result of a policy of gradualness, was launched in the winter of 1883-84 under the leadership of Professor Thomas Davidson, "an ethical Anarchist Communist".
He was soon superseded by the Webbs and George Bernard Shaw, who played a dominant role in the Society for nearly half a century.

The policy of permeation soon started to bear fruit. Politicians of all parties were influenced. George Bernard Shaw has frankly described this policy:
"Our propaganda is one of permeating - we urged our members to join the Liberal and Radical Associations in their district, or, if they preferred it, the Conservative Associations - we permeated the party organisations and pulled all the strings we could lay our hands on with the utmost adroitness and energy, and we succeeded so well that in 1888 we gained the solid advantage of a Progressive majority full of ideas that would never have come into their heads had not the Fabians put them there."

The essence of the Fabian's Soviet-by-Stealth programme was to exploit the natural tendency of all politicians, irrespective of label, to concentrate power. The Fabians set about influencing all politicians to support legislation which would so start centralising power that a process of delegation of power to a bureaucracy would become inevitable. Once the bureaucracy was empowered to make regulations and decrees having the force of law, responsible Parliamentary Government would be undermined, and the traditional Constitutional safeguards of the individual's rights destroyed.
In other words, the Fabians set out deliberately to pervert the Parliamentary system.

One of the great figures of the Fabian Socialist movement, Professor Harold Laski, clearly outlined the Fabian technique in the Fabian journal, New Statesman, September 10, 1932, as follows:
"The necessity and value of delegated legislation and its extension is inevitable if the process of socialisation is not to be wrecked by the normal methods of obstruction which existing parliamentary procedure sanctions."

In his book, Democracy in Crisis, Laski said that the first task of a Socialist Government would be
"to take vast powers and legislate under them by ordinance and decree."
It is significant that in recent times the Communists have admitted the possibilities of using the Parliamentary system to further their programme.

The Fabian technique of perverting the Parliamentary system to destroy responsible Government was warned against by the famous former Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord Hewart, in his great classic, The New Despotism (1929).
Lord Hewart made the following serious charge:
"A mass of evidence establishes the fact that there is in existence a persistent and well-contrived system, intending to produce, and in practice producing, a despotic power which at one and the same time places Government departments beyond the sovereignty of Parliament and beyond the jurisdiction of the Courts."
The "persistent and well-contrived system" has been expanded enormously since Lord Hewart wrote his book

The second World War, which the Marxist-Leninists claimed was necessary to advance their revolutionary strategy for world conquest, not only resulted in a major expansion of the Communist Empire; it also gave the Fabian Socialists the opportunity of expanding bureaucracy in every part of the English-speaking world, including the U.S.A.
This expansion of bureaucracy, which enables the Fabians and other planners to exercise growing power over all aspects of the life of the individual by holding key bureaucratic positions, also provides the Communists with a perfect cover for their contribution to the revolution. The New Deal programme which President Roosevelt set in motion in 1933, allegedly to deal with the Great Depression crisis, was in fact Fabian inspired, with influential Fabians on both sides of the Atlantic being directly involved in the programme.
The New Deal required a tremendous expansion of bureaucracy. And this bureaucracy provided the perfect protection for large numbers of top Communist agents who progressively worked their way right into the very heart of the Roosevelt Administration, which from 1938 onwards was practically controlled by Communists.

It is important to note that while the greatest rate of expansion takes place when there is a Government openly committed to increased Government planning, the expansion of bureaucracy has also continued under professed anti-Socialist Governments. These Governments are also subject to the influences of the Fabians, particularly in the field of economic and financial policy.

They must continue to move, however reluctantly, in the same direction as the Socialists until such time as they are prepared to implement economic and financial policies which are designed to place the full benefit of the free-enterprise and private ownership economy at the disposal of the individual.
Such policies would require less Government and a substantial reduction in bureaucracy.


...... snip ......

The Reality of Socialism

The underlying philosophy of all Socialist policies, whether advanced by the Marxist-Leninists, the Fabians, or any other brand of Socialists, is collectivist, reactionary, and opposed to the freedom of the individual. All central planners fear individual freedom, because no one can predict how the individual is going to use his freedom.
Central planning requires that planners have effective control of all aspects of human activity. The exercising of freedom by the individual is essentially a creative and spiritual activity.
Self-development depends not only on freedom of choice,
but the acceptance of personal responsibility for the choices made.

Now the basis of true freedom is economic freedom. The widespread ownership of private property, decentralised and genuine competitive free enterprise, the inheritance of any form of property or money from one's forebears, the obtaining of dividends from investments , and the making of financial profits are all detested by the Socialists.
The Fabian Keynes and his followers have done even more than the Marxist-Leninists to make ""profit motive" a dirty term. And their effect has been so pervading that even private businessmen feel inhibited against making a positive defence of the profit principle. The Fabians have also joined with the Communists in attacking the inheritance principle. The attack on the inheritance principle was included in Marx's ten steps in The Communist Manifesto. Along with Marx, the Fabians have claimed that the inheritance principle can be attacked by high taxation and heavy death duties.

One of Keynes' main contributions to the Socialist advance, was to attack the principle of private savings and private investment. According to Keynesian economics, the economy should be increasingly geared to Government investment for '"social purposes", the "'social purposes" to be decided, not by the free choice of individuals, but by Government planners.

Centralised control of the creation, issue and cancellation of financial credit is essential to operate the Keynesian policies, while high taxation becomes progressively more of an instrument of control rather than a necessity for raising money for Government requirements.
This Fabian program accepts inflation, an insidious form of hidden taxation with far-reaching and destructive social as well as economic consequences, as one of its inevitable byproducts, and insists that so long as inflation is also "controlled", it should be acceptable. Any who may be so bold as to protest that "controlled inflation" as official Government policy is in fact open Government endorsement of stealing from those who have acquired honest savings of various forms, are threatened that the only alternative is economic depression and unemployment.
Those who suggest that it is possible to have economic and financial policies genuinely benefiting all individuals, without either inflation or deflation, are dismissed as '"cranks".

In his Appreciation of the Communist Manifesto for the Labour Party, issued in 1948 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Marx's basic document, Fabian Harold Laski asked the revealing question,
"Who, remembering that these (policies of high taxation and centralisation of credit) were the demands of the Manifesto, can doubt our common inspiration?"

The Fabians openly proclaimed early in their history that the use of high taxation was one of their chief means of reaching the Socialist State. They also stated that "'to the Socialist, the best of Governments is that which spends most." Although both the Fabian and the Marxist Socialists direct much of their propaganda at the evils of Monopoly, this is but another example of throwing up a smokescreen to mask the truth that the progressive concentration of economic power is welcomed.
According to the Marxists, the development of ""Monopoly Capitalism" is an essential part of that "historical inevitability" which they claim leads to Communism. So far from the free-enterprise / private-ownership system inevitably developing into Monopoly, a number of surveys have shown that high taxation and centralised credit policies have been the main causes of economic concentration.

It is the Keynesian Socialist financial and economic policies which are aiding the Communists by making it appear that this concentration is inevitable, and inherent in the free-enterprise economic system. There is no doubt that Keynes set out deliberately to foster economic concentration and to undermine the middle class - "the Bourgeoisie".

Joseph Schumpeter, the neo-Marxist from Harvard University, summarised the Keynesian view in the following passage in his book, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1950). "The perfectly bureaucratized giant industrial unit not only ousts the small or medium-sized firm and 'expropriates' its owners, but in the end it also ousts the entrepreneur and expropriates the bourgeoisie as a class which in the process stands to lose not only its income - but also what is infinitely more important, its function."

The well-known American Fabian and admirer of Keynes, Stuart Chase, in his book, A New Deal, a slogan which President Roosevelt borrowed for his Administration, wrote: "Mr. Keynes, following Karl Marx,. used the great cooperation as an institution increasingly ripe for state control or outright ownership. He finds many parallels with the state trusts of Soviet Russia."

In an article in the London Sunday Express, 1920, H. G. Wells made the following lucid comment concerning the same point made by Chase:
"Big business is by no means antipathetic to Communism. The larger big business grows the more it approximates to Collectivism. It is the upper road of the few instead of the lower road of the masses to Collectivism."

Fabian-Socialist financial and economic policies produce the economic centralisation which the Communists then claim proves that Marxism-Leninism has '"scientifically" demonstrated that capitalism develops "inevitably" through monopoly-capitalism to Socialism.

Basic Economic Truths

The current policies of centralisation in the spheres of industry, Government and finance are not going to be halted by merely attempting to draw attention to the evils resulting from these policies, and not demonstrating that a study of basic economic truths reveals that alternative policies leading to greater individual freedom and security are possible.
The first essential for an effective counter-offensive against the centralisers, irrespective of whether they call themselves Fabians, Keynesians or Communists, is to attack their basic economic teaching that labour produces all wealth. It is the widespread uncritical acceptance of this teaching which inhibits anti-socialists from seizing the offensive on the question of the inheritance principle.
It is a major fallacy that labour produces all wealth, and that therefore any individual enjoying, in any form whatever, economic benefits from either inheritance or from dividends, is a "'parasite living on the workers".

The basis of all wealth is sunshine, solar energy, water and the soil.

It is self-evident that no individual, or group of individuals, produced this wealth. The Christian could put the position as follows: Sunshine, solar energy, water, soil, are a part of God's capital. They were a gift to the human being in the same way that a father gives a property to his son. The fact that some individuals might use an inherited asset, one towards which they contributed no labour whatever, in a wasteful or immoral manner, is not a legitimate reason for abolishing the principle of inheritance. It is simply an argument in favour of developing a greater sense of responsibility and morality in individuals inheriting wealth.

Thousands of years of human history have clearly demonstrated that collectivism encourages a far more irresponsible and anti-social attitude towards wealth of any kind than does private personal control. Not only has the human being inherited the basic capital wealth mentioned; he has also inherited the truths of the Universe.
Labour did not create the truth which man has termed the "'mechanical advantage". Man discovered this truth when he found that by using a log as a lever he could easily lift a weight which he could not even budge with his own muscle power. The mechanical advantage and many other similar truths, provided the very foundations of the modern industrial system. Having been discovered by earlier generations of men, knowledge of these truths, and how to use them, was passed down to succeeding generations. This is called the cultural heritage.
It is this cultural heritage, making use of the vast capital resources of the Universe, which has made possible not only higher material standards of living for present generations, but which has made it possible for individuals to have greater time to devote to activities, cultural and otherwise, other than those forced upon them by economic necessity. The development of automation is the end product of the process of using solar energy to power automatic or semi-automatic machinery.

The claim that "labour produces all wealth" is not only false; it becomes progressively more false as the cultural heritage is expanded with the result that labour as such is a diminishing factor in production.

Those who really desire to attack Socialist economic and financial policies which are driving the non-Communist nations towards the same centralization suffered by people living in the Communist nations, have got to expose and oppose every attack upon the inheritance principle. They must insist that the tremendous potential benefits from the accumulated knowledge of centuries are available to the individual. Present policies of economic and financial centralism, are rapidly leading to more and more control over productive resources being exercised by central planners acting in the name of the Government.

The essence of true economic democracy is that the individual consumer, using his money "'vote", induces a number of competing retailers and producers to compete for his ""vote" by offering him better and cheaper goods and services. The sane, realistic purpose of production should be to supply the genuine, freely-expressed desires of individuals. The free-enterprise, competitive system, based upon the concept of private ownership of property, operating in a society where the Government's main function is to uphold a rule of law which ensures that no individual can interfere with other individuals' rights, provides the basis for a major step forward in real freedom for all individuals.
But the policies of centralism rob the individual of his full heritage.

More and more Government intervention in the field of production and distribution as advocated by Keynes, produces an ever-increasing bureaucracy which decides how the . , nation's heritage is to be used. This is justified under the slogan that the Government must provide '"Full Employment".
It is also suggested that this is ""progressive," overlooking the fact that the pyramids of Egypt were also used to provide '"Full Employment" thousands of years ago. No doubt the slaves who toiled on the building of the pyramids would have preferred the opportunity of working on some project of benefit to themselves!

The real credit of a nation is its productive capacity.
All policies of centralised control seek to ensure that real credit is monopolised by Governments, thus preventing the individual to gain increasing benefits from what is, as has been pointed out, his rightful heritage. Those who argue that under Keynesian policies Government intervention into the economic field does not go as far as the Communists desire, overlook the fact that even the managers of the private-enterprise sector of the economy become so dependent upon the goodwill of the planners running the Government sector, that they are afraid to give offence in any way in case they should, for example, lose a Government contract.

Evidence of this development is already mounting in every Western nation where the Fabian tactic of gradualism is being applied. If the Communist strategy for obtaining a World Monopoly of Power is to be defeated, then not only must all policies for further centralising power be vigorously challenged; but there must also be a progressive decentralisation of all power, political, financial, and economic under the effective control of individuals who can then be made personally responsible for their actions.

If the supporters of the free society are not capable of advancing appropriate policies for decentralising power, for ensuring that the individual does gain access to his own heritage, then not only will they not defeat the Communist challenge; they will get what they deserve.

General Conclusions

Although far from being as exhaustive as it might be, this survey of the Fabian Socialist Movement in relationship to the Communist advance, forces the admission of the following general conclusions:
The Fabian Socialist movement grew out of the same collectivist philosophical soil as did the Marxist-Leninist movement.
So far from being a moderating influence on the world-wide revolutionary movement spear-headed by the Marxist-Leninists, the Fabian-Socialists have played a decisive part in advancing the revolution.
Particularly amongst the English-speaking peoples of the non-Communist world, they have furthered Socialist ideology and policies in a manner which the Marxist-Leninists could never have done on their own. They have in fact played the major role in preparing the Western nations for their eventual predicted take-over by their more violent Socialist brothers, the Communists.

The Fabian Socialists have not only produced a fertile recruiting ground for the Communists; many of them have actively collaborated with the Communists. And when they have not directly collaborated, they have provided an effective smokescreen for the Marxist-Leninists, both helping to shield Communist activities and to mask the Communist advance.
It is clear, therefore, that the Communist advance is not going to be halted until the Fabian Socialist smokescreen is swept away by effective exposure and, even more important, the Fabian economic, financial and political policies of gradualism are first halted and then reversed.