For anybody who believes that ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM is advocating communist principles, here are the ten planks of the Cummunist Manifesto, along with my own critical analysis of the frenzied allegations made against both the filmmakers and Project Venus.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
This is what is being used by critics of the film to discredit its philosophical essence, but at no point does anybody in the documentary call for the abolition of all property. What they do advocate however, is common ownership of the natural resources of the planet we share and a world without elitism.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Since the film calls for the abolition of money, this would be virtually impossible to implement in such a set of circumstances. However, this system has already been imposed upon every nation, enslaved by debts that can never be repaid.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
At no point in the film does anybody advocate this policy.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
Since the filmmakers and Project Venus would be targets of this order, it is already self-evidently irrelevant to this discussion.
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
The abolition of money would necessitate the abolition of the banking industry, therefore the accusation that the filmmakers advocate this cannot be sustained. Nevertheless, what we are currently witnessing across the world is state monopoly of the high street banks and mortgage companies, pure and simple.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.
This has already been done by the bankers and their puppet governments right across the globe and is at no point advocated by the filmmakers.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
Western governments, who are secretly controlled by the international banksters, are currently implementing these policies by taking ownership of the commercial banking industry and all the property and assets contained within it, while the privately-owned central banks are already synonymous with the state.
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
Since the fimmakers predict that technology can and should replace the vast majorty of the human labour force, for the greatest benefit of all, this is both irrelevant to the discussion and the means by which the Nazis almost completely eradicated unemployment from 1933-36.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
Commonly known as global monopolisation of the food industry and urbanisation of the rural heartlands. This is in no way alluded to or implied by any of the values, opinions and beliefs expressed in the film.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.
I suspect most of the people on this forum would agree with one or two of these policies. The makers of the film advocate education that empowers our children with knowledge and technical ability, rather than the mandatory system that we have now, which coerces young people into becoming compliant wage-slaves who never question what they are told by established authority.
With respect to the comments of the much-admired Mr Griffin, I can only imagine that he has misconstrued the filmmakers' philosophy, or that he is too long in the tooth to change his fundamental beliefs about why the corrupt system doesn't work. Otherwise, I find it difficult to imagine how he could aim so wide of the mark in his accusation of an obvious communist agenda.
As for the genuinely disappointing Mr Jones, he does himself more discredit than his ever-increasing number of critics could ever hope to sustain every time he advocates violent revolution and free market capitalism, while raking in advertising revenue by ramping up the fear factor to the max. If the best solution to our problems he can offer is to give everybody a bible and a gun, it is time for the truth movement to tune out of his frequency.
Peace, freedom, love and light,
Z
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