Karl Marx believed and taught that a Democracy can be conquered at the ballot box. Marx believed that Communism can “win the battle of democracy” through Marxist class struggle where the tax-eating, labor-challenged (lazy) proletariat class, with the aid of an effete tax-eating Marxist ruling class of intellectuals, can expropriate the property of the laboring tax-paying middle class. The end of Marxist class struggle is a homogenized and economically equalized class of serfs – the proletariat class plus the newly impoverished former middle class. The two non-laboring classes (Proletariat and Marxist leadership) can legally vote themselves the property of the laboring class in a pure democracy. Marx didn’t mention a Constitutional Republic in the Manifesto – I believe he knew that a middle class majority could not be defeated if they were empowered to limit taxation through an amendment process – which would be the death of Marxism. BTW – the amendment will have to originate from State Legislatures – too many Federal Senators and Congressmen from both political parties would prefer to leave things as they are – they have in effect become our Marxist Ruling Class.

“The proletariat [non-disabled poor] will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital [property] from the bourgeoisie [middle class], to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state [Marxist Government]… Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property… In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements, they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time… We have seen above that the first step in the revolution by the [non] working class is to raise the proletariat [another lie] to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.” Karl Marx

http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html

Karl Marx understood that a Democracy can be perverted into totalitarian government. This occurs when enough of a population goes over to the Proletariat Class – with outstretched hands – voting for the Party which will rob the laboring Middle class on their behalf. Eventually under Marxism the Middle class is worn down – exhausted and demoralized by what amounts to slave labor. When the Middle class finally succumbs there will be a dramatic fall off in production of food and other goods and services – anarchy ensues – and who “comes to the rescue” but the Marxist leadership class (the Pigs of Animal Farm) who robbed the workers to buy the votes of the lazy in the first place. Envision a cruise ship where more and more passengers run over to the left side looking for “free stuff” from government – of course the “free stuff” is the fruit of other men’s labor – the laboring men still slogging it out on the right side. Eventually there will not be enough laborers and entrepreneurs on the right side of the ship to prevent it from capsizing. Voila: Social Justice ends in Dictatorship – not a “dictatorship of the proletariat” – that is another of Marx’s lies – it will be a Dictatorship of the Marxist Ruling Class.

Marxism is the road to both serfdom and tyranny; serfdom because the work ethic is destroyed in the middle class as they become exhausted through excessive taxation of their labor while the proletariat class remains in serfdom because there is no need for them to labor – they can live off the labor of others; tyranny because the whole Marxist system is based on inequality before law (unequal tax law) and destruction of the individual’s God-given rights to liberty and property.