----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 9:45 AM Subject: [PEN-L:26838] Inheritance tax is Marxist
> Inheritance tax is Marxist > by Ian Murray > 12 June 2002 19:09 UTC > > > > > > Manifesto > > of the Communist Party > > 1848 > > > > http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html#Proletarian > > Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means > of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of > bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear > economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the > movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old > social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing > the mode of production. > > > > These measures will, of course, be different in different countries. > > > > Nevertheless, 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 ( emphasis added -CB) > > > > ===================== > > The philosophical and legal arguments for abolishing inheritance had > been around before KM was even born. > > ^^^^^^^^ > > CB: You provided the heading - "Inheritance tax is _Marxist_". What is the significance of it being Marxist, since, no doubt, the inheritance tax was around before KM was born , too ? > ==================== Because Phil Gramm, incorrectly, asserted it was a Marxist idea. That Marx was even mentioned by a major US politician in the 21st century is interesting no? Ian Ian
