> It appears as though Stalin was not wrong about everything: the key is
> to get the
> children young.
>
> Travis
HEH. Have you been taken in by this right-wing hoax? http://www.snopes.com/language/document/commrule.htm Communist Rules for Revolution
In May 1919 at Dusseldorf, Germany, the allied forces discovered a copy of these 'Rules.' They were first printed in the United States in the 'Bartlesville (Oklahoma) Examiner-Enterprise' the same year, 1919.
Almost 20 years later, in 1946, the attorney general of Florida obtained them from a known member of the Communist Party, who acknowledged that the 'Rules' were then still a part of the Communist program for the United States.
1. Corrupt the young; get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness.
2. Get control of all means of publicity, thereby:
3. Get people's minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books, plays and immoral movies.
4. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.
5. Destroy the people's faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and disgrace.
6. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.
7. By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce years of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.
8. Incite unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.
9. Cause breakdown of the old moral values - honesty, sobriety, self-restraint, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.
10. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscate them and leaving the populace helpless. -- Michael Pugliese