Way to communism is defined by Friedrich Engels as:-
- Limitation of private property through progressive
taxation, heavy inheritance taxes, abolition of inheritance
through collateral lines (brothers, nephews, etc.), forced loans,
and so forth. - Gradual expropriation of land owners, factory owners,
railway and shipping magnates, partly through competition by
state industry, partly directly through compensation in the
form of bonds. - Confiscation of the possessions of all emigres and rebels
against the majority of the people. - Organization of labour or employment of proletarians
on publicly owned land, in factories and workshops, thereby
putting an end to competition among the workers and compelling
the factory owners, insofar as they still exist, to pay the
same high wages as those paid by the state. - An equal obligation on all members of society to work
until such time as private property has been completely
abolished. Formation of industrial armies, especially for
agriculture. - Centralization of the credit and monetary systems in
the hands of the state through a national bank operating with
state capital, and the suppression of all private banks and bankers. - Increase in the number of national factories, workshops,
railways, and ships; bringing new lands into cultivation and
improvement of land already under cultivation — all in the
same proportion as the growth of the capital and labour force
at the disposal of the nation. - Education of all children, from the moment they can
leave their mothers’ care, in national establishments at national
cost. Education and production together. - Construction on national lands, of great palaces as communal
dwellings for associated groups of citizens engaged in
both industry and agriculture, and combining in their way
of life the advantages of urban and rural conditions while
avoiding the one-sidedness and drawbacks of either. - The demolition of all unhealthy and jerry-built dwellings
in urban districts. - Equal right of inheritance for children born in and out
of wedlock. - Concentration of all means of transport in the hands
of the nation.