Legos and Karl Marx?

If there is anyone around that thinks communism as a practical system was defeated when the Soviet Union crumbled, they should rethink that premise. The tenents of Marxism are alive and well and being diligently taught in our schools. We have all heard stories of left-leaning, America hating professors in our institutions of higher learning, but it starts much earlier than that....

Banning LEGOs

Teachers at a Seattle day care center decided to ban LEGO building blocks — those colorful little bricks kids use to build such creations as robots, monster trucks, space ships and vast futuristic cities. The Hilltop Children's Center bills itself as a nationally recognized, non-profit, non-religious facility. So why did the teachers toss the LEGOs?

We'll let them explain: "We agreed that we want to take part in shaping the children's understandings from a perspective of social justice. So we decided to take the LEGOs out of the classroom. The children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive."

After months of what the teachers called "social justice exploration" — they let the LEGOs back in — but kids were only allowed to build "public structures" of standard sizes in a village dedicated to what they called "collectivity and consensus." (Foxnews.com)

How many people really know what Marxism is? I know I was never taught in school or in college what Marxist philosophy was. We hear it often and think we know. But how many take the time to look for themselves?

The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848, listed Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as authors, but Engels later stated it was Marx who wrote it. If you have never taken the time to read it, it is important you do so. It openly and flatly calls for the overthrow of government by the working class. The basic tenets of the manifesto are posted below for your enlightenment. I hope it makes your skin crawl.

10 Planks of the 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 the property of all 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 liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, &c., &c.. (Wikipedia.com)

I hope this stimulates thought and, with that, some research of your own. What you don't know CAN hurt you....