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1.     Abolition* of property in land and application of all rents of land 

        to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition* of all rights of inheritance.

4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

5.     Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means 

        of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.

6.     Centralization of the means of communication and transport 

        in the hands of the state.

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.

8.     Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial 

        armies, especially for agriculture.

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.

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.

*  Abolition is the act of formally repealing an existing legal practice, either by making it illegal, or simply no longer allowing it to exist in any form.

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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels

Manifesto
of the Communist Party

1848

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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