the fun part is that in context it's a list of short term, immediate demands that should be made of European nations in 1848
right wingers have misread it and characterize the fulfillment of those demands as being full communism (even when their examples aren't truly the demands being fulfilled)
I've had a lot of fun telling them "No, no, those ten points are Step 1"
The only one of those that's communism is also the only one of those we don't have
Literally every bullet point comes directly from the Communist Manifesto.
I guess I have to be the one to tell Karl Marx that he's not a real communist.
the fun part is that in context it's a list of short term, immediate demands that should be made of European nations in 1848
right wingers have misread it and characterize the fulfillment of those demands as being full communism (even when their examples aren't truly the demands being fulfilled)
I've had a lot of fun telling them "No, no, those ten points are Step 1"
Well, technically step one is that the working class must win the battle of democracy, and elevate themselves to the position of the ruling class.
We certainly don't have that here in the States.
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