ate property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. 2.A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. 3.Abolition of the rights of inheritance. 4.Confiscation of the property of 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 wastelands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. 8.Equal liability of all 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 equitable distribution of the population over the country. 10.Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. Marx concludes the chapter by repeating his claim that once the proletariat achieve political power, the eventual result will be a classless society. Abolishing bourgeois modes of production undermines the continued existence of class antagonisms, and without class antagonism, the proletariat will lose their own class character. As Marx famously closes the chapter, "In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all" (105). Chapter 2 Analysis: Proletarians and CommunistsThe most important theses advanced in this section relate to Marx's response to bourgeois criticisms of communism. The first and most important charge Marx entertains is that the abolition of private property destroys the "ground work of all personal freed...
