Communism in Today’s America
By Ela Mukosiej⎪February 7, 2025
My birth country, Poland was under the Communist regime for 37 years. I was only 6 when it officially ended in 1989; however, several years had passed before we experienced some sort of stability when it came to an access to necessities or comfort in daily life.
I’ll never forget the site of a long line of people waiting hours, sometimes even days, just to get a loaf of bread, sugar, or flour. And they didn’t pay with money, but coupons, so that no one acquired more products than it was allowed.
Scarcity and control is what I recollect from that time in Polish history. Below are a couple of photographs of Poland under the rule of USSR.
Warsaw 1980’s, photo: Chris Niedenthal
Meat store, Warsaw 1982, photo: Chris Niedenthal
Today we say that it [communism] would never happen again, and definitely not in America.
Obviously, we need to go to the source to find out the truth.
In The Communist Manifesto (1848), Karl Marx writes: “the theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
In other words, it’s abolition of individual sovereignty / end of natural rights (as all rights are property rights).
But let’s be thorough and go point by point of the Communist ideology.
As I do, I’ll add a check mark (☑️) if the agenda is being played out (in full or partially) in America nowadays. I also invite you to do your own reading on the subject and inspect the following.
TEN PLANKS OF THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
1 - Abolition of property in land and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.
If you want to find out on your own skin if this is already manifested here in America, try to stop paying property taxes, especially after you paid off your mortgage. The rule of thumb is that if you pay others for the right to use it, you are not the owner. ☑️
2 - A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
The tax bracket is from 10% to 37% depending on the income. The more you make the more you pay, which doesn’t necessarily make sense because the wealthier you are the more likely you’re going to use private services instead of public aid. But, the format perfectly goes with the Communist agenda. ☑️
3 - Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
Even though you still can pass on your wealth to your family after you die, it is being taxed (again). So back to the plank #1 - if it was yours you didn’t have to pay to gift it to others, but since you own no property you can’t freely give it away. ☑️
4 - Confiscation Of The Property Of All Emigrants And Rebels.
This point is about the “exit tax” as well as the simple fact that U.S. Citizens are tax liable anywhere in the world. Besides the income and capital gain, the government taxes immigrants the net worth of all their assets (often forcing them to sell those assets in order to pay the exit tax). ☑️
5 - Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
How about the Federal Reserve, does it fit the description? Perfectly, and it hasn’t changed since 1913, having exclusive monopoly on banking and the creation of money. ☑️
6 - Centralization of the means of communications and transportation in the hands of the State.
It’s been pretty clear for those who pay attention that the means of communication has been heavily guarded by the federal government/state: mainstream media, flow of internet, etc. As far as the transportation goes, well it’s quite obvious too (Air Commerce Act of 1926; Federal Highway Act of 1916; Interstate Highway System, 1944; Interstate Commerce Commission given authority by Congress to regulate trucking and carriers on inland waterways, 1935-40; Department of Transportation 1966). ☑️
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.
It’s basically about controlling of the flow of resources. This violates the free will and natural rights of people to decide What is produced, Who produces it, Where it’s being made, and What Allocation of resources go there. The state/government is the ruling class and individual freedoms are destroyed. ☑️
8 - Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies especially for agriculture.
Everybody must work and must work equal hours. An average American works nearly 38 hours per week having no wealth or savings, being in debt, and living paycheck to paycheck. About 50% of earnings goes into taxes (that is six months of a ‘slave work’ for the government). To survive in today’s America one simply has to work his/her entire life. ☑️
9 - Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country.
Top down/arbitrary control of the flow of resources; over who can do what (licensure, permits), and what is or isn’t made, and also where people live (transportation and land control). ☑️
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.
The main purpose of the public education was to create a work force - obedient employees who are smart enough to follow directions and perpetuate the arbitrary system of slavery, but not smart enough to realize that their individual rights are being violated. ☑️
Different Abolition Needed
What at first seems a ridiculous idea — that there’s communism in America — becomes a difficult truth to swallow when you examine the facts. But truth is what the world needs now.
Yes, our stores are abundant in all kinds of products and there are certain freedoms that Americans are allowed to exercise, but at the end of the day, legally, people have no [property] Rights and are coerced to serve the state/government.
So how do we turn it around?
We need to ABOLISH the blind trust in authorities and our cowardice to stand up to the bullies. Sadly, many people condone slavery as they see the wrongs of governments and refuse to do something about it.
But cowardice ends with confidence that comes with Knowledge. Therefore, the first and most important step to freedom is education.
Next month I will be diving deeper into the blueprint of American Freedom aka the Constitution that appears to have less in common with America today than the Communist manifesto.