The Manifesto

[Aurora]

In The Communist Manifesto in chapter 2 it says


"8. Equal liability of all to labour.Establishment of industrial armies,especially for agriculture."

"9. Combination of agriculture with the manufacturing industry;gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country,by a more equable distribution of the population over the country."

"10. Free education in public schools.Abolition of children's labour in its present form.Combination of education with industrial production etc etc"



What is an industrial army?

How would we go about combining agriculture with the manufacturing industry?

What does it mean to combine education with industrial labour? Is this child labour?


Thanks in advance :)

[nickdlc]

Those revolutionary demands are very old and outdated and no sane marxist would advocate them for todays conditions, hell marx said they were outdated in 1872! Industrial armies i would guess is concentrating/centralizing production so more of a given product can be produced. Combination of education and industrial production im guessing is the different form child labour takes :ph34r:

[Taboo Tongue]

Could be hella off but...

8.
Large ammounts of people (armies) to grow food. This would be needed in a society around 1890's where people could take what they needed for food. They didn't have the machines or all the crop fields we have now.
9.
Not just having the large factories in what were at the time before revolution cities, but spereading them out to the rural areas.
10.
Having a large emphasis on children learning how the current technology and workplace functions.

10 seems kinda weird to me so I may be off, I do remember a thread on this quite awhile ago though, and this one idea put forth by somone.

[EusebioScrib]

Marx was basically calling for the further proletariazation of society. Which was entirely necessary at that time. Today, not so much.