re: "Answer the question, where in Marx's manifesto does it state that individuals cannot own or build prosperity? "
From the Communist Manifesto:
"The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state..."
"Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore, which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionizing the mode of production. "
"...Neverheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable."
"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 rights of inheritance."
"4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels."
"5. Centralization of credit in the banks 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 he hands of the state. "
Numbers 7-10 deal with things like labor, education, where and how people live. |
