[GregoTX]

Communist Manifesto
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 right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of all property of emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands 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….
9. … gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equitable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools….

Sounds to me like all of these goals are well covered by US Bureaucracies already.
1. HUD, FLC, All bureaucracies that make eminent domain claims.
2. IRS - Tax Reform
3. IRS - Estate Tax (aka Death Tax)
4. IRS - Liens and Seizures
5. The Federal Reserve
6. FCC and US Dept of Transportation (FAA, FHA, FRA, NHTSA, OIG) along with DHS (TSA)
7. OSHA - Cap and Trade regulations in the name of the "Climate Change" crisis. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, giving federal control over industries that receive money.
8. Replaced by government dependency
9. All Federal bureaucracies that claim national regulatory power as opposed to State and local control
10. US Department of Education

[NYer]

Sounds to me like all of these goals are well covered by US Bureaucracies

Hence the author's final admonition ..

Communism is not a good idea, in theory or practice, and likewise for its ugly stepsister: socialism. Both are about statism, collectivism, redistribution, nationalization, appropriation, excessive taxation, the inane assertion that public services are “free” services, and, overall, government control. They—along with modern progressivism—differ in degree.

Americans must understand this. They must in order to know what not to support, and, most important, who not to vote for.

Under the US constitution, we the people still have the inalienable right to vote these socialists out of office. Too often, though, American continue to re-elect the same people because they are too lazy to investigate the other candidates.