marx and stalin contd

here's the program from toward the end of the communist manifesto :

Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.

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

5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.

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

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.

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

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.

10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.

ok, then. let's start with this. once you centralize the means of production, education , communication, transportation; once you manufacture industrial armies and wipe out the very idea of the rural; once you assign an exclusive monopoly on banking and credit to the state, etc: watcha got? true democracy? or, let's see: forced collectivization of agriculture; rapid industrial growth in a command economy; idiotic propaganda rather than a press; a one-party dictatorship. and once you've got that job done, you're a fool if you don't expect executions of "class enemies" (i.e. anyone who dissents from the lobotomized marxist ideology you're spouting); and all the other wonderful hallmarks of the most thorough totalitarianism the world has ever known. that is what marx wanted. that is what he predicted. deep, deep inside - and for that matter right on the surface - that's who he was.