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 right of inheritance.
4: Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5: Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6: Centralisation 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 liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9: Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equal distribution of the population over the country.
10: Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
I thought you said this was the Communist Manifesto; it sounds more like news headlines!
ReplyDelete"We're All Socialists Now" - Time
ReplyDeleteThat's true, it's not socialism because government isn't sharing.
ReplyDeleteNow, arresting Rothschild and Rockefeller, seizing their gold and distributing it among the people, that's the kind of socialism/crime reparation that I AM for! :)