Can you list the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto?
The ten planks:
1. Abolition of Property in Land and Application of all Rents of Land to Public Purpose.
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 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 Waste Lands, 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 it’s Present Form. Combination of Education with Industrial Production.
I would make this recommendation. On understanding how Marx reached this level of thinking and imagining how this would all ‘fit’...one might want to pick up Chris Jennings book “The Story of American Utopianism”. He picks up the introduction of several experimental communist-like groups in the US (1600s-1800s). Each had this vision like Marx....each had financial backing to start them up...each reached a peak...each came to a dramatic failure.
A lot of the early success of these attempts were written up and published. Marx had access to the newspapers and information on the attempts. His planks go along the lines of many of these American society attempts to create an urbanized society...all in one collective body. The American system gave them the luxury of conducting the experiment...but it also helped in ways to ensure each failed in the end.