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Why so many corpses?

By David Fisher - posted Tuesday, 4 October 2011


Nothing can left to our children.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

I left the US to live in Australia.  I still get pensions and social security from the US. If the US had followed the Manifesto the price of leaving would be losing everything I have worked for.

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6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.

There goes free expression, a free press and even owning a bicycle.

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.

The main factor in the loss of biodiversity is habitat destruction.  The cultivation of waste lands would accelerate that process. Marx and Engels were probably not aware of ecological considerations.

8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.

The armies would probably be staffed by conscription. There goes the right to decide what one wants to do for a living and where one wants to work.

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9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.

Presumably the equable distribution would be effected by the state determining where people live. The individual would not have a choice.

The above points specify a powerful state. As it is we can go where we will and decide where we will live and what we will do for a living.

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