MARX: Karl Marx: The Manifesto of the Communist Party

KARL MARX – The Manifesto of the Communist Party

pg. 419 - 429
commentary, not quotes:
Arguments for elimination of the eternal basic unit of society (family), inalienable rights, agency, personal ownership, enterprise, incentive, religion, and even eternal truth are listed. The arguments are justified by examples of the history of evil or conspiring men abusing their power. No acknowledgment of the conspiring secret society promoted by the communist manifesto itself, nor its own history. This is not new; the ideals new, but have existed since the beginning of society. The Communistic view attempts its argument by simply stating that there is NO religion – same argument as proposed by the Gadiantons or the Kingmen (for those familiar with that society)

Marx writes:These measures will of course be different in different countries.
Karl Marx – The Manifesto of the Communist Party, pg. 428


Marx writes:
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
Karl Marx – The Manifesto of the Communist Party, pg. 429

Marx writes:2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
Karl Marx – The Manifesto of the Communist Party, pg. 429

Marx writes:3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
Karl Marx – The Manifesto of the Communist Party, pg. 429

Marx writes:
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
Karl Marx – The Manifesto of the Communist Party, pg. 429

Marx writes:5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the state by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
Karl Marx – The Manifesto of the Communist Party, pg. 429

Marx writes:
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the ahnds of the state.
Karl Marx – The Manifesto of the Communist Party, pg. 429

Marx writes:
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the brining into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
Karl Marx – The Manifesto of the Communist Party, pg. 429

Marx writes:
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
Karl Marx – The Manifesto of the Communist Party, pg. 429


Marx writes:9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
Karl Marx – The Manifesto of the Communist Party, pg. 429

Marx writes:
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of child factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.
Karl Marx – The Manifesto of the Communist Party, pg. 429


Marx writes:

When in the course of development class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a bast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another.
Karl Marx – The Manifesto of the Communist Party, pg. 429


Vocabulary

Bourgeoisie, pg 419
capitalist – owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour

proletariat, pg. 419
wager labourers, have no means of production of their own, sell their own labour power