How America Became a Communist Nation

Feb 1st, 2011
By Porter Stansberry
The root of the problem the world is facing right now isn’t really governments… or banks. The real problem is simply a very bad idea – the idea that the State ought to sit in the center of society. And the foundations of our modern State are based on the demands of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto. Let me explain…
The last 100 years (since 1914) saw not only the end of the classic gold standard, but also the fantastic ascendancy of the nation-state.
These two trends are inherently and dangerously related.

Until World War I, the central government of the United States, for example, played a small role in the lives of its citizens. Its powers were strictly limited, as were its revenues. It was specifically barred from taxing citizens directly. It was a humble government that interacted with the individual states in the union, but didn’t interact much with individual citizens.
The first signs of change came after the Civil War. “Progressive” ideas began to emerge. Most of these ideas came from Germany, from philosophers like Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The core of these ideas was that the State itself was superior to its citizens. Therefore, the argument went, society ought to be organized to better accomplish the goals of the State.


Today, most Americans have no idea that the foundations of our modern State are based – nearly verbatim – on the demands of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto.
In 1848, Marx threatened to organize a worker’s revolution unless European governments:
1. Abolished property rights and applied all rents towards public purposes.
[Modern corollary: Don't pay your property taxes, lose your house. So who really owns your house?]
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