This is an ignorant misrepresentation of the Communist Manifesto and an ignorant demonisation of Marx--no wonder it's a hit here in conservative heartland!'The author of the article is clearly an unthinking zealot and I shall not attempt to disabuse him.

Kenny,
The Communists and Hitler actually signed a treaty.

The Acolyte Rizla
Please note the communists also hated, interned and killed communists.

David f,
actually the German Industrial Complex was allowed to prosper but only under the direction of the National Socialist Party. Any funding was by way of taxation.

Sorry but you are both wrong. The National Socialists were socialist ... that they morphed into tyranny and slaughtered 'all commers' isn't at all unique to the German National Socialist outfit.

I don't know of any liberal/conservative party that endorses nationalisation of Banking functions, Infrustructure, Unions and the means of production of food and essential supplies... which was the policy of the German National Socialists and is what they did.

What has been left out of the article was the Marxist desire to destroy families, believing that families accumulated property and wealth, and this eventually lead to inequalities amongst the population.

There are major instances of this belief still evident in our Marxist/feminist society, where 30% of children are now born outside of marriage, meaning that the majority of these children will not have a father within a few years of birth.

This destroys the family unit, and normally leads to the child living in poverty. As seen in some countries, it costs the mother more in day care fees than what she can earn at a job, so the mother is forced to live on welfare, and the child is likely to live on welfare also, for most or all of their life.

Marxism is very much alive in many countries, but now comes under the banner of feminism.

Sorry Runner, but both hospitals and schools were started long before Christ was born. Did you think that only the humans post Christ could heal or teach others? Many other history books existed before the Bible was written.

"The earliest documented institutions aiming to provide cures were ancient Egyptian temples. In ancient Greece, temples dedicated to the healer-god Asclepius, known as Asclepieia , functioned as centers of medical advice, prognosis, and healing"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital

" It is believed that the first formalized schooling occurred in Egypt in 3000BC. This was for young boys to learn how to become scribes as few people could read and write. In ancient India Gurukuls ran schools that taught subjects such as medicine and philosophy to any child or person who attended."
http://wanttoknowit.com/when-was-school-invented/

What has been omitted from the article is the actuality that it is "mankind" collectively who is capable of cold and calculated savagery whatever his level of civilisation or form of culture.

imajulianutter,

Sorry to rain on your parade, old boy, but substituting your anti-left ideology for historical fact won't actually retro-actively render the far-right National Socialist Party a left-wing party, no matter how long nor how loudly you repeat your paralogism.

Poirot,

Excellent point. Communism, Christianity, atheism, etc. don't kill people: people kill people.