PHIL 2010H Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Class Conflict, Classless Society, Progressive Tax
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Abolition of free trade, that is, of buying and selling as the basic operation of the economic system. Abolition of the bourgeois individual," that is, of the individual as the owner of private property. Abolition of the bourgeois family, that is, of treating wives and children as means of production. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. Centralisation 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.