The Communist Manifesto calls for the overthrow of capitalism and the development of socialism.
It has four sections.
In the first section, it discusses the historical materialist view of history and the relationship between workers and capitalists.
The second section explains the relationship between Communists and other workers.
The third section addresses looks at previous utopian socialist theories, and shows how they are different from scientific socialism.
The final section discusses the relationship between the Communist parties, and other parties.
The manifesto also contains a list of reforms
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 an elected government of workers councils, by means of a national bank with commonly owned capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of elected workers' councils.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the people in common; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal opportunity of all for labor. Establishment of workers councils for agriculture and all industries.
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
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