c. Warning that allowances must be made for different conditions in different countries, Marx lays out the following general objectives for the communist movement:
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 hands of the Sate, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusively monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of wastelands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
7. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
8. 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.
9. 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. (CM)
