The Crying Policeman

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Sadly, communism is gradually winning thanks to democracy.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. In other words, property tax/real estate tax
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. Check
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance. Inheritance tax.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly. Check
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State. LTO & NTC
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. Dept of Agrarian Reform
8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. Dept of Labor
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of the population over the country. Not there yet
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form and combination of education with industrial production. Check

-Communist Manifesto

DEMOCRACY:

• A government of the masses.
• Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.
• Results in mobocracy.
• Attitude toward property is communistic--negating property rights.
• Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
• Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

REPUBLIC:

• Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
• Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.
• A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.
• Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy.
• Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.
• Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.

Training Manual No. 2000-25