Back in the USSR

professor rat pro2rat at yahoo.com.au
Mon May 9 00:49:10 PDT 2022


"Our current economical market system is unfit to meet the needs of our Armed Forces and of the entire country under these conditions. We need to move on to another system, I will tentatively call it 'military socialism' but any other title could also be used," the analyst, Konstantin Sivkov, stated in a video of a broadcast that was widely viewed Saturday, adding that "all strategic resources, without exceptions, like land, factories and everything else have to be placed under government control and develop according to a centralized plan."

https://www.newsweek.com/russian-state-tv-analyst-urges-military-socialism-amid-ukraine-invasion-1704540

Manifesto of the Communist Party - Karl Marx

"...in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.

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 rights of inheritance.
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.
6. Centralisation 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 liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture...."



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