Аннотация: Коммунизм жив и будет жить вечно, но только по заветам Великого Руководителя Товарища Ким Ир Сена!
Some Western press and politicos have been saying that "Communism is dead" and that North Korea is the only remaining "Stalinist" country - which too is about to collapse.
The fact is that Communism is very much alive. Communism has not died, but it's main ideas have been absorbed into other political ideologies, just as pre-Christ religious beliefs were gradually adapted into Christianity and other religions (In fact, on e finds many Christian ideals in Communism.)
Where is Communism alive today? There are 'Communist' parties in many countries, but only few governments today are controlled by so-called 'Communists' (Cuba, China, N Korea, Vietnam, and a number of the former Soviet-bloc nations). It may sound stran ge but many Communist ideas are alive and well in the United States (there is 'Communist Party of USA' which has a presidential candidate for the November election) and other democratic, socialist and indeed, dictatorial nations.
Is America Red?
In the good old 'anti-Communist' US of A, one finds many Communist ideas in practice as expounded below: Ten Communist planks implemented in America. Communism USA
1)Abolition of property (rights) in land and application of all rents (taxes) of land to public purposes Zoning, School tax (from Property "rents") Equitable interest in land, no alodial title. No free holders. Accomplished: 14th Amend U.S. Const. 1868. Title 17 health and safety code.
2) A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 501 (c)(3) corporate churches/businesses. Income tax - IRS (Title 26) Fed. tax can take up to 88% of income. Social Security. Public Property (state police powers). Accomplished: 16th Amend U.S. Const. 1913. Social Security Act 1936. JHR 192, 1933
3) Abolition of all right to inheritance. Limited inheritance via inheritance tax. Accomplished: Estate tax 1916
4) Confiscation of the property of emigrants and rebels. Confiscation of drug-merchant property "War on Drugs" IRS confiscation of private property without due process. RICO Act (Racketeering Influenced & Corrupt Organizations) Imprisonment of "terrorist" and those who write or speak against the government. Accomplished: Public Law 99-570 1986. Established 1970. Sedition Act 1798 also used in 1940's and 1988.
5) Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. Federal reserve Banks. All local banks use credit & are members of Fed. reserve System and regulated by the U.S. Govt. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Accomplished: Federal Reserve Act 1913. Federal Reserve Act 1933.
6) Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state. Interstate Commerce Commission. Federal Communication Commission (FCC) US Civil Aeronautics. Federal Aviation Agency (FAA). Accomplished: ICC Act 1887. The Commissions Act 1934. Est 1938. Est 1958.
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 with a common plan. Anti-trust Acts. Department of Commerce and Labor. Dept. of Agriculture. Dept. of Interior (Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, Nat'l Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service). Accomplished: Established 1 902. Established 1903. Established 1862. Established 1849.
8) Equal liability of all labor (for the National debt). Establishment of industrial armies, especially for Agriculture. "Two income families" because of inflation and National debt. Woman's Suffrage. Affirmative action. Socialist Unions. International Workers of the World (Chicago). Accomplished: Women in the work place 1920's 19th Amend., U.S. Const. 1920. Civil Righ ts Act 1964. Established 1869. Established 1905.
9) Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country. Farms lost to "the suburbs" and manufacturing/commercialism. Perverted technology/corporate farms. National farmers Alliance and Industrial Union. Accomplished: 1880-1990's (Title 17 "Zoning") Took hold 1910-1990's/1870's-1880's.
10) Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. State run, tax financed schools. Socialized/progressive education. Child Labor Act, Pennsylvania. Children now work with State approval. Abolition of private education. Accomplished: Horace Mann 1837-1848. John Dewey 1870-1910. Established 1848.
It should be noted that not all 'Communists' practice the Communism in the 'pure' form envisioned by Marx and Engels. Stalin used Communism to enslave and hold together the Soviet Union. Mao Zedong used it to obtain funds and support from Commintern unt il his excommunication, Gen. Li Tong Whi (a Korean anti-Japanese partisan leader) joined the Party in order to be eligible for Lenin's rubles, Ho Chi-min joined the Party to feed and equip his anti-French troops. Both Mao and Ho hated Stalin's haughty at titude toward the 'fraternal Communist Parties', and both men had approached Uncle Sam for money and weapons, only to be rebuffed by the 'anti-Red' State Dept.
North Korea's Kim Il Sung joined the Communist Party in his teens and worshipped Stalin. The S Korean troops which occupied Pyongyang in 1950 found Kim's office adorned with numerous portraits and statues of Stalin. But Stalin's lukewarm support for his war efforts and even less support from Stalin's heirs put dampers on Kim's love for the Soviets. Kim realized that the Soviets were just another breed of imperialists looking for suckers.
After the Korean War, Kim became more nationalistic and less Communistic. He purged pro-Soviet Koreans and the old-guard Communists from S Korea and devised his own political ideology - juche. This earned him much scorn and derision from the 'authentic' Communists who broke ties with N Korea. For example, the Japanese Communist Party opposes N Korea, and the former Soviet Communist Party shunned Kim Il Sung.
While Communism was used by various nationalists and dictators, the 'anti-Communists' used it to their advantage. Communism has never been the monolithic evil Empire out to enslave every one. Domino theories and 'evil empires' existed only in the minds o f politicians who were more interested in protecting their dung hills than facing the truth.
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