Ten Blunders in Communism

Robert Higgs writes “the list of ten measures that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels presented in the Manifesto of the Communist Party as "pretty generally applicable" for the establishment of communism "in the most advanced countries."

 I reproduce the same ten blunders below:

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 waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between towns and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of child factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.