See if you see the similarity between the 1776-ILLUMINATI and Marx & Engels Manifesto.



On 1 May 1776 Adam Weishaupt formed the "Order of Perfectibilists". He adopted the name of "Brother Spartacus" within the order. Though the Order was not egalitarian or democratic, its mission was the abolition of all monarchical governments and state religions in Europe and its colonies.

Weishaupt was initiated into the Masonic Lodge "Theodor zum guten Rath", at Munich in 1777. His project of "illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason, which will dispel the clouds of superstition and of prejudice" was an unwelcome reform. Soon however he had developed gnostic mysteries of his own, with the goal of "perfecting human" nature through re-education to achieve a communal state with nature, freed of government and organized religion. He began working towards incorporating his system of Illuminism with that of Freemasonry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Weishaupt
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07661b.htm
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, 1911 11th Edition
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Illuminati
http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/I27_INV/IL...nare_.html
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, 1902 9th Edition
http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/I/ILL/illuminati.html
1828 Webster's Dictionary
http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/word/illuminati
George Washington, letter, October 1798
http://memory.loc.gov/mss/mgw/mgw2/021/2010195.jpg
Thomas Jefferson, letter, January 1800
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Weisha...loc.gov-20
http://encyclopediaoffreemasonry.com/i/i...f-bavaria/





Manifesto of the Communist Party
by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
1848 (excerpt)

The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favor of bourgeois property.

The distinguishing feature of communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.

Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.

The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.

The charges against communism made from a religious, a philosophical and, generally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination.

"There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience."

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution!
http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classi...roletarian

Know that the soviet union was not communism and that China is also not communism.

There is a philosophy that describes communism. It is negative towards capitalism, mostly about the relation between the worker and the owner. But that is also not the definition of communism.

I think Americans need to be educated about it. Not because I want them to accept communism, but because they need to be able to freely criticize capitalism and not be called a communist.

So what is communism, for real? Please also don't tell me it is everybody getting equal wages.