From The Communist Constitution vs. The United States Constitution
by Whitney, H. Slocomb, 1955

The following are the ten articles of the Communist Manifesto, as written by Karl Marx in 1848 and taken from �Capital, and other writings�, edited by Carl [Max?] Eastman, page 342 ; a �Modern Library� book :

�We have seen that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of the ruling class ; to win the battle of democracy.

�The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie (i.e., the property owners) ; to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the State . . .

�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 . . .

�These measures will, of course, be different in different countries.

�Nevertheless in the 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) 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 labor. 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 labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc., etc.�

The above might be said to be the ten articles of the constitution of the �Organization to Establish Communism.�

It is the �Communist Constitution.�

In the above, it says, �We have seen that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of the ruling class. . . . .�

Who is this �proletariat,� as separate from the working class ?

Let us substitute the name �minority group� for �proletariat,� and then fill in what seems to be left out, and then see what we have :

�We have seen that the first step in the revolution is to amalgamate the minority group with the working class and raise it to the position of the ruling class ; to win the battle of democracy.

�The minority group will then use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the ruling class (i.e., the property owners) ; to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state. . . . .�

What better program could any minority want, in order to gain a vengeful domination of present-day rulers?

Boston : Meador, 1955, pages 38 - 40.