Living as I do in a communist country, I have paid attention to Karl Marx’s work.\u00a0 Apparently he was a brilliant man.\u00a0 Have you heard of him?\u00a0 In 1848, with Engels he wrote The Communist Manifesto.\u00a0 Although many American professors are thoroughly Marxist, few students study Marx himself, or read the Manifesto. Few Americans under the age of 40 have heard of him.<\/p>\n
I asked a Chinese professor about Marx and his ideals.\u00a0 I asked how China reconciled those ideas with the current capitalist policies.\u00a0 I asked how people saw their own country.\u00a0 He said, “China——is just China.”<\/p>\n
In my travels here, I have seen many tourist shops.\u00a0 These typically offer for sale items such as ash trays, book bags, and tee shirts showing a picture of Mr. Obama wearing a revolutionary soldier’s cap, holding his head in that classic Mao pose, and printed with the word,\u00a0 “Obamao.”\u00a0 Chinese people say they love Mr. Obama.\u00a0 In China we love our leaders, the sky is blue and the water is clean, everyone is living harmoniously.\u00a0 It is a happiness thing.<\/p>\n
Take a close look at that Manifesto, if you haven’t already.\u00a0 Scan through the first parts and get down to the ten point platform.\u00a0 You will see that the USA has fully accepted at least half of the points, and partially accepted most of the others.\u00a0 Rights of inheritance, for example, are so complicated by tax laws that the average person finds it difficult to pass down property to his descendants. We haven’t totally abolished inheritance, but it’s on the way out.\u00a0 Certainly we have a “heavy progressive income tax” far heavier than China’s.\u00a0 With the new executive order, points 7 and 9 of the Manifesto are now in place.\u00a0 One of the points we’re missing,however, is “an equal obligation of all to work.”<\/p>\n
So, when I go home, it will be to a somewhat different country than the one I left.\u00a0 But, I have learned how to live in a communist country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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