Warning: Are We Too Familiar With the Communist Manifesto of 1848?

Examine the 10 planks of Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto and see if they seem to be "present" in our society and government today.

1.           Abolition of private property

2.           Heavy progressive income tax

3.           Abolition of rights of inheritance (say, a 51% inheritance tax?)

4.           Confiscation of property rights

5.           Central Bank

6.           Government ownership of communication and transportation

7.           Government ownership of factories and agriculture

8.           Government control of labor

9.           Corporate farms, regional planning

10.       Government control of education.