ACHIEVING COMMUNISM BY REVOLUTION
Marx’s most famous words come from the end of the Communist Manifesto. He says:
“The Communists disdain [look down upon and refuse] to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Proletarians of all countries, unite!”.
The key words here are: “the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions”.
This is not limited. This is a broad, comprehensive, all-inclusive call for violent destruction. Anyone who opposes this destruction is to be killed.
Marx says “The Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things.”.
He specifically names “the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc.” as part of the “bourgeoisie”, that is, part of the enemy. If you rent out a room, you are a landlord. If you run a store, no matter how small, you are a shopkeeper. That makes you the enemy. That makes you part of the “ruling classes”. He says you should “tremble at a communist revolution”. You are to be killed, and your property is to be stolen.
Marx wants to correct all injustice and to create a society of universal love. He wants to do it by killing everyone who owns anything and by stealing their property.
He wants to create universal peace by creating universal war.
How smart is that?
ACHIEVING COMMUNISM BY DEMOCRACY
In the Communist Manifesto, Marx says:
“The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of the ruling class to win the battle of democracy. The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest [take away by brute force], by degree [one step at a time], all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state.”.
In other words, in a democracy, the workers have the votes. They should elect their own people and should gradually confiscate all businesses so that all businesses are owned by the government.
This contradicts Marx’s statement that Communist “ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.”. In a democracy, they can also be attained by majority vote.
This is a more mild approach than “the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions”. It does not involve killing people. But it does involve confiscating all business property from its owners, so that the government now owns all business property.
This means that there cannot be any businessmen. Businessmen are part of the “bourgeoisie”. Businessmen are the enemy. This includes small businessmen. Anyone who hires another person is “exploiting” that other person. This cannot be allowed.
This means that everyone works for the government. There can be no other employers.
Even buying something from one person and selling it to another person for a profit cannot be allowed. That would be business property. That would be “capital”. That would be like being a shopkeeper.
No one can own any property that is used in a business.
In fact, Marx goes farther than that. He says “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”.
He says “You reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend.”.
He says “The bourgeois … the middle-class owner of property … must, indeed, be swept out of the way, and made impossible.”.
No one can own any property at all.
SOCIALISM IS COMMUNISM BY DEMOCRACY
Marx gives two methods for the achievement of Communism. One is revolution. The other is democracy. He says “The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of the ruling class to win the battle of democracy.”.
Socialism is the gradual confiscation of all businesses by the government. Thus Socialism is the second road to Communism. The two roads are Revolution and Socialism.
Of course, Socialists don’t say and won’t admit that Socialism is simply a road to Communism. It is the essence of Communism to be covert and secretive about what they are doing. Why? Because their objective is to kill all the business owners and to confiscate all their property. Naturally this is going to be a lot harder if they boldly announce this to all the business owners whom they want to kill and to steal from.
So even though Marx says “The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.”, this is not entirely true. They are happy to announce their goals of murder and confiscation to the “workers” they are hoping to recruit into their revolutionary cause. But when they are pursuing Communism through democracy, they do not want to reveal their ultimate objective. That is why Marx says it should be done “by degree” – a little bit at a time. The reason is so that the victims will not realize what is happening until it is too late.
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