Communist Manifesto

1- Abolition of private property in land, and the establishment of public
   use of land rent.
2- A graduated income tax.
3- Abolition of inheritance.
4- Confiscation of the property of political rebels or those exiting the
   country.
5- Establishment of a state banking monopoly, controlling all finance.
6- Establishment of thorough state oversight on transport and communications.
7- State planned and controlled soil management and improvement, and
   expansion of state industry.
8- Requirement that all able-bodied adults must have a full-time job,
   preferably in an industrial "army" of some kind, particularly in
   agriculture.
9- Merger of agriculture with large scale maufacturing.
10-Free education for children within a merger of education with industrial
   production, and the abolition of child labor.

           Communist Academy of the USSR, 1926

1- Public organization of production.
2- Communal ownership of the means of production.
3- Absence of private means of production, and of class domination or
   exploitation.

           Stalin's Definition, 1936

1- Public and collective ownership of the means of production.
2- Free association of rural and urban workers.
3- Planned industry and agriculture with highly mechanistic labor.
4- Resolution of urban vs rural antagonism.
5- From each according to ability, to each according to need rather than
   based on productivity.
6- Encouragement of science and arts.
7- Freer expression of noneconomic personality.



No mention of free elections or tolerance for ideological variance.


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