Isn’t this pretty much in line with the current administration’s agenda?

(Parentheticals are my own paraphrasing)

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Democracy would be wholly valueless if it were not immediately used as a means for putting through measures … ensuring the livelihood of the people. The main measures, emerging as the necessary result of existing relations, are the following:

• Limitation of private property through progressive taxation, heavy inheritance taxes.
• Gradual expropriation of landowners, industrialists, railroad magnates and shipowners … through competition by state industry
• (Civil asset forfeiture)
• Organization of labor in factories and workshops, with competition among the workers being abolished and with the factory owners, in so far as they still exist, being obliged to pay the same high wages as those paid by the state. (National Card Check)
• Centralization of money and credit in the hands of the state through a national bank
• Increase in the number of national factories (Nationalization of banks, the auto industry, medicine)
• Education of all children, from the moment they can leave their mother’s care, in national establishments at national cost.
• Concentration of all means of transportation in the hands of the nation. (Public transportation, high-speed rail, light rail)

It is impossible, of course, to carry out all these measures at once. But one will always bring others in its wake. Once the first radical attack on private property has been launched, the people will find itself forced to go ever further, to concentrate increasingly in the hands of the state all capital, all agriculture, all transport, all trade.

All the foregoing measures are directed to this end; and they will become practicable and feasible, capable of producing their centralizing effects to precisely the degree that the people, through its labor, multiplies the country’s productive forces.

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Hmmm.