----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 11:32 AM Subject: [PEN-L:26763] Inheritance tax is Marxist
> Inheritance tax is Marxist > by Ian Murray > 12 June 2002 > > 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. Ian
