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> Demands of the Communist Party in Germany
>
> “Workers of all countries, unite!”
>
> 1. The whole of Germany shall be declared a single
> and indivisible republic.
>
> 2. Every German, having reached the age of
> 21, shall have the right to vote and to
> be elected, provided he has not been convicted
> of a criminal offence.
>
> 3. Representatives of the people shall
> receive payment so that workers, too, shall
> be able to become members of the German
> parliament.
>
> 4. Universal arming of the people. In future the
> armies shall be simultaneously labour armies, so
> that the troops shall not, as formerly, merely
> consume, but shall produce more than is necessary
> for their upkeep. This will moreover be conducive
> to the organisation of labour.
>
> 5. Legal services shall be free of charge.
>
> 6. All feudal obligations, dues, corvées,
> tithes etc., which have hitherto weighed
> upon the rural population, shall be abolished
> without compensation.
>
> 7. Princely and other feudal estates,
> together with mines, pits, and so forth,
> shall become the property of the state. The
> estates shall be cultivated on a large scale and
> with the most up-to-date scientific devices in the
> interests of the whole of society.
>
> 8. Mortgages on peasant lands shall be
> declared the property of the state. Interest
> on such mortgages shall be paid by the peasants
> to the state.
>
> 9. In localities where the tenant system is
> developed, the land rent or the quit-rent shall be
> paid to the state as a tax. The measures specified
> in Nos. 6, 7, 8 and 9 are to be adopted in order
> to reduce the communal and other burdens hitherto
> imposed upon the peasants and small tenant farmers
> without curtailing the means available for
> defraying state expenses and without imperilling
> production. The landowner in the strict
> sense, who is neither a peasant nor a
> tenant farmer, has no share in production.
> Consumption on his part is, therefore, nothing but
> abuse.
>
> 10. A state bank, whose paper issues are legal
> tender, shall replace all private banks. This
> measure will make it possible to regulate the
> credit system in the interest of the people as a
> whole, and will thus undermine the dominion of the
> big financial magnates. Further, by gradually
> substituting paper money for gold and silver
> coin, the universal means of exchange (that
> indispensable prerequisite of bourgeois trade
> and commerce) will be cheapened, and gold
> and silver will be set free for use in foreign
> trade. Finally, this measure is necessary in order
> to bind the interests of the conservative
> bourgeoisie to the Government.
>
> 11. All the means of transport, railways,
> canals, steamships, roads, the posts etc.
> shall be taken over by the state. They
> shall become the property of the state and
> shall be placed free at the disposal of the
> impecunious classes.
>
> 12. All civil servants shall receive the
> same salary, the only exception being that
> civil servants who have a family to support and
> who therefore have greater requirements, shall
> receive a higher salary.
>
> 13. Complete separation of Church and State.
> The clergy of every denomination shall be
> paid only by the voluntary contributions of their
> congregations.
>
> 14. The right of inheritance to be curtailed.
>
> 15. The introduction of steeply graduated
> taxes, and the abolition of taxes on
> articles of consumption.
>
> 16. Inauguration of national workshops. The
> state guarantees a livelihood to all workers
> and provides for those who are incapacitated for
> work.
>
> 17. Universal and free education of the people. It
> is to the interest of the German
> proletariat, the petty bourgeoisie and the
> small peasants to support these demands with
> all possible energy. Only by the realisation of
> these demands will the millions in Germany, who
> have hitherto been exploited by a handful
> of persons and whom the exploiters would
> like to keep in further subjection, win the
> rights and attain to that power to which
> they are entitled as the producers of all wealth.
>
>
> The Committee Karl Marx, Karl Schapper, H. Bauer,
> F. Engels, J. Moll, W. Wolff, 1848
>
>
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/downlo
> ad/pdf/Manifesto.pdf
And you have a problem with this I take it?