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“4.Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.

6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.”
On the plus side, a lot of stress on education and freedom from religious dogma (except for Marxism ironically)

“What else does the history of ideas prove, than that intellectual production changes its character in proportion as material production is changed?”

“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths.”

“Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion.

Capital is, therefore, not a personal, it is a social power.”

“The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”

“The old order of the shopkeepers, the handcraftsman are conservative and are a part of the “revolution” only to save their skin.”
Its amazing how this book is not considered “hate speech”.

“Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labor, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman.”
Parallels with rise of AI and also discussion of economic crises.

“Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.”

Reminded of the song
“bourgeoisie, bourgeoisie, who the f is bourgeoisie ?”

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”