A Thought About Communism for my Sister

I know that you don't care much for socialist ideas that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels brought about.  I don't even agree with it all myself, but we need to recognize the ideas that have seeped into our own society that actually do work.  The Japanese would say "mottainai" if we completely ignored the ideas they came up with.  

Despite the historical figures like Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin using their "communism" to make themselves head of fascist states, Marx and Engels talked mostly about making the working class strong and not whole dependent on the the rich class that they refer to as the bourgeois.  Some ideas we haven’t adopted like the “Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.” and the “Abolition of all rights of inheritance.” as the stated in their manifesto.  We generally think of this redistribution of land when we think of communism.  However, a few ideas our country and many others have adopted readily.  

Ideas we had that we didn’t realize are communist:

Who Has Control, Our Government?

by Sam Derby

As a young boy, my dream was to join NASA and to go to other planets and explore new worlds. However, as time pasted and as I continued reading my Air & Space magazine I realized that NASA was becoming stagnant and underfunded.  Hopes of even witnessing the building of a base on the moon or colonizing Mars were not just diminishing for me but for a whole generation.  Then, years later came a new breakthrough.  A rocket that can not only take off but land fully intact.  This may seem minor but it is an unprecedented technological advance and all done by Elon Musk's SpaceX company.  A private institution and not the government's fallen NASA.



Just look at how appealing it is to support Elon Musk; in his biography is he is quoted to have said:

"I would like to die thinking that humanity has a bright future.  If we can solve sustainable energy and be well on our way to becoming a multi-planetary species with a self-sustaining civilization on another planet to cope with a worst-case scenario happening and extinguishing human consciousness, then I that would be really good." -Elon Musk