Analyst's note:  Absolutely must read.  Here is a well done juxtaposition of the Manifesto’s 10 planks against our modern day American society. The strategic picture revealed is both shocking and extremely revealing.  You will want to want to read the entire original article, but here are the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto ... which should help you to understand what is to be associated with each of the points.

1. Abolition of private property

2. Heavy progressive income tax

3. Abolition to all rights of inheritance

4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants & rebels

5. Centralization and monopolization of credit by means of a national bank

6. Centralized control of communication & transportation

7. Government ownership of factories

8. Equal liability of all to labor

9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries

10. Free education for all children in government controlled schools

[....] Some balk at the use of the word “Communism,” dismissing its invocation as hyperbole. Yet when dissecting actual policies, laws, regulations and bureaucratic government approaches which Americans are increasingly subjected to, and weighing them against the 10  progressive “rules to live by,” the facts scream loudly and clearly in the face of those who deny the ever-creeping onset of Socialism. Marx’s Communist “utopia” is only one evolutionary stage away from reality.