ENGELS ADVOCATED NATIONALIZATION OF INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION AS STEPS TO COMMUNISM

Far from starting futile quarrels with the democrats, in the present circumstances, the Communists for the time being rather take the field as democrats themselves in all practical party matters. In all civilised countries, democracy has as its necessary consequence the political rule of the proletariat, and the political rule of the proletariat is the first condition for all communist measures. As long as democracy has not been achieved, thus long do Communists and democrats fight side by side, thus long are the interests of the democrats at the same time those of the Communists. Until that time, the differences between the two parties are of a purely theoretical nature and can perfectly well be debated on a theoretical level without common action being thereby in any way prejudiced. Indeed, understandings will be possible concerning many measures which are to be carried out in the interests of the previously oppressed classes immediately after democracy has been achieved, e.g. the running of large-scale industry and the railways by the state, the education of all children at state expense, etc.

Source

The first part in German:

Friedrich Engels, „Die Kommunisten und Karl Heinzen“, 1847

„Die Kommunisten, weit entfernt, unter den gegenwärtigen Verhältnissen mit den Demokraten nutzlose Streitfragen anzufangen, treten vielmehr für den Augenblick in allen praktischen Parteifragen selbst als Demokraten auf. (…) Solange die Demokratie noch nicht erkämpft ist, solange kämpfen Kommunisten und Demokraten also gemeinsam (…)“

MEW a.a.O. 4, 317.

And now John Ray concludes:

This passage is of course a classical formulation of the “fellow-traveller” doctrine. As we see repeatedly in his writing, Engels despised democracy but above he sees Communism as the ultimate endpoint of democracy so says that Communists and democrats should work together to achieve State control of industry and education as the final steps before Communism is achieved.

The State control of industry has fallen by the wayside in modern times but education still seems to be well on track.

If you can’t see what’s happening, I’ll try to type really slow so I can spell it out for you. Engel sees the democrats working alongside the communists to accomplish their goals, and that is, in fact what has happened. When John Kerry was campaigning for president, the CPUSA said this:

…a spokesman of the CPUSA in Georgia said in a letter: ” The CPUSA supports the John Kerry campaign with donations and volunteer effort. We believe that defeating George Bush is the single most important issue this November …”

Interestingly, one of Kerry’s campaign themes was ” Let America be America Again.” This slogan was borrowed from a Communist poet, Langston Hughes. This is not common knowledge to the average American.

“Let America be America Again” sounds good but is a rambling, gloomy poem. Another poem by Langston Hughes is even more revealing; “Goodbye, Christ Jesus, Lord, God, Jehova, Beat it on away from here now. Make way for a new guy with no religion at all — A real guy named Marx, communist, Lenin, Peasant, Stalin, Worker, ME — I said, ME!”

Then, if this was not enough to convince me that the Democratic party has lost it, a third discovery!

American Communists’ Top Ten Reasons to Defeat George W. Bush (emphasis in original):

1. Bush is destroying workers rights and outsourcing jobs instead of protecting the right to organize and creating new jobs rebuilding schools, bridges, roads and hospitals.

2. Bush is privatizing Medicare, Social Security and public education with phony reforms instead of enacting health care for all, protecting retirement funds and full funding for public education through college.

3. Bush is bankrupting the Federal Government with giant tax cuts for the very rich and super-funds to the military instead of securing the budget for human needs by taxing the rich and spending on human needs.

4. Bush is rolling back civil rights gains instead of enforcing and expanding affirmative action to end racism in all areas of life.

5. Bush is curtailing women’s rights and choice by undermining Roe v. Wade instead of upholding the right to choice and ending the gender wage gap.

6. Bush is abusing immigrant workers in low-wage jobs instead of providing a clear path to citizenship and equal rights.

7. Bush is exploiting and ruining the environment by protecting corporate polluters instead of conserving our natural resources for the public good.

8. Bush’s war in Iraq is a disaster for our security and economy. He is pushing for more preemptive wars and for first strike nuclear military policy instead of negotiations and cooperation utilizing the UN.

9. Bush is denying civil liberties and free speech in the name of fighting terrorism instead of repealing the USA Patriot Act and helping cities, towns and states fund firefighters and police.

10. Bush discriminates against Gays and Lesbians with a Constitutional Amendment instead of expanding civil rights and liberties for all.

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Let me introduce you to John Ray, the prolific writer who supplies me with so much of my reference material, making it so easy to point out the similarities between the leftists of today and Marx and Engels’ ideology. You have to take it further than the manifesto, dears. The Manifesto is only the beginning. If that’s all you’re relying on, then it’s no wonder you don’t have a clue.

Dissecting Leftism

Greenie Watch

Political Correctness Watch

Gun Watch

Socialized Medicine

Leftists as Elitists

Marx Words

and he’s also published at frontpage magazine

Eugenics and the Left

Psychology Underlying Liberalism

Leftwing Fascism: An Intellectual Disorder

Leftist Racism

Dr. John J. Ray maintains a website at http://geocities.com/jonjayray. He is such a prolific writer and quotes texts from Marx and Engels among others…so you will see in the upcoming weeks a lot of references to this material as I continue to nail the donks against the wall with their empty socialist rhetoric, and their cheap totally transparent slogans. The cheap shots are all they’ve got; it doesn’t hold up under intellectual scrutiny.

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