From: Ernesto Screpanti (screpanti@UNISI.IT)
Date: Wed May 26 2004 - 03:53:34 EDT
At 22.01 19/05/2004 +0100, you wrote: >Anders Ekeland wrote: > >> >>At 22:16 15.05.2004, Paul Cockshott wrote about progressive taxes: >> >>>In this sense European social democracy has already incorporated many >>>communist principles. >> >> >>One might discuss if progressive taxes is a communist principle, in any >>case it is one of the important slogans of the Manifesto that the >>soc.dems Here is Engels' thought: "...on propose dans ce meme plan un impot général progressive sur le capital; son taux augmenterait avec le volume du capital. De cette manière, la charge de l'administration serait supportée par chacun selon ces capacités... Aux fond le principe de l'imposition est comuniste, car le droit de lever des empots est déduit dans tous les pays de ce que l'on appelle la propriété nationale". Engles, "Discours d'Elberfeld" in Reinische Jahrbucher zur gesellschaftlichen Reform, 1845. I have only a French transaltion of this discours, which I took from Engles-Marx, Utopisme et communauté de l'avenir, Maspero, Paris, 1976, p. 44. Perhaps somebody can give me the reference of an English translation Ernesto
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