From The Communist Manifesto written by
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848.
Goals, "Communist Manifesto"
The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single
phrase: Abolition of private
property.
(page 82)
In bourgeois society, therefore, the
past dominates the present; in communist society, the present dominates the
past. In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while
the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
And the abolition of this state of
things is called by the bourgeoisie, abolition of individuality and
freedom! And
rightly so. The abolition of
bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is
undoubtedly aimed at.
(page 84)
You reproach us with intending to do
away with your property. Precisely
so; that is just what we intend. (page 85)
. . . the
middle-class owner of property.
This person must, indeed, be swept out of the way, and made
impossible. (pages 85-86)
Abolition of the family! (page
87)
The Communists are further reproached
with desiring to abolish countries and nationality." (page 90)
Communism abolishes
eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality.
(page 92)
Communists everywhere support every
revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of
things. (page 116)
Goals of Communism (page 94)
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. Centralization of credit in the hands 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 wastelands, and the improvement of the
soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to labor. 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 equable
distribution of the population 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., etc.
Note: the above pages reflect the
paperback version, 14th printing, April 1976
Note: the above quotes also reflect the
tenets of the religion of humanism.
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