I changed it a little bit

[Tom MacDonald]

In a mud-slinging election year, I just couldn't help myself.
Everything I changed is in uppercase.  I will keep this as the
quintessential way to denounce those who may hold a different
opinion than the politically correct one.

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             Comments on the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO (CM)

               Tom (politically incorrect) MacDonald
		       TWIN PEAKS UNIVERSITY
			   BLACK LODGE

The CM is a cynical attempt to pass off a private bill as if it were a public
service when in fact it will do the public a severe disservice.  The latest 
MANIFESTO offers a proforma but not material response to the objections raised
over earlier MANIFESTOS, as if the MANIFESTO's authors felt no embarrassment
when their tendentious rationalizations contradict their own statments of aims
in the MANIFESTO's first pages.  The MANIFESTO is couched in a dense notation
as if it were some kind of ECONOMICS; but in fact it is a pseudo-ECONOMIC
pastiche, imposing restrictions here and relaxing them there without any 
obvious reason apparent through the fog of symbols.  There is an unobvious
reason for the authors' whimsy; the promulgation of the CM as an inter-
national ECONOMY would redound to the commercial advantage of just one 
COUNTRY.  By cloaking their proposed standard in ECONOMIC obscurantism,
the authors may succeed in getting it past both that COUNTRY's competitors
and an unalerted public.

The community of producers AND CONSUMERS, the community the CM purports to
serve, has not yet awakened to the threat posed by the CM.  Such protests
as have come from that community have been disregarded by THE COMMUNIST PARTY
and the SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY for lack of expertise in an admittedly
mysterious ECONOMY.  Thus those bodies are relegated to the status of a
Court of Appeal preoccupied solely with procedural matters since it cannot
pass on a lower court's illogic nor on the validity of new evidence.  Thus,
THE COMMUNIST PARTY and the SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY are posed to inflict
harm they cannot understand upon a community they intend to help.

A better procedure would be to send the MANIFESTO back for a considered re-
evaluation by its prospective victims.  At the very least, the CM should be 
subject to unhurried public debate in appropriate forums like ...
	In the USA,	REPUBLICAN PARTY
			DEMOCRATIC PARTY
			LIBERTARIAN PARTY

	In the UK,	IRA

	    etc.
Their silence in the past cannot be construed as consent.

Nobody has presented evidence that the CM's promulgation would enhance the 
quality or availability of GOODS AND SERVICES; such evidence as exists points
to the contrary.  Why rush to force upon us all what only its proponents want?