It ' s interesting to me that he completely avoids things that have been so traditionally celebrated by former US presidents race , creed and cultural diversity . To me , those are pretty fundamental concepts that can ' t be ignored if the message is calling for ALL people of the US to unite . <| sep |> Communist Manifestomanifestoch 02 . htmChapter II . Proletarians and CommunistsOf course , in the beginning , this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property , and on the conditions of bourgeois production by means of measures , therefore , which appear economically insufficient and untenable , but which , in the course of the movement , outstrip themselves , necessitate further inroads upon the old social order , and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production . These measures will , of course , be different in different countries . Nevertheless , in most advanced countries , the following will be pretty generally applicable . 1 . Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes . 2 . A heavy progressive or graduated income tax . 3 . Abolition of all rights of inheritance . 4 . Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels . 5 . Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state , by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly . 6 . Centralisation 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 to work . Establishment of industrial armies , especially for agriculture . 9 . Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country . 10 . Free education for all children in public schools . Abolition of children ' s factory labour in its present form . Combination of education with industrial production , c , c . When , in the course of development , class distinctions have disappeared , and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation , the public power will lose its political character . Political power , properly so called , is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another . If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled , by the force of circumstances , to organise itself as a class , if , by means of a revolution , it makes itself the ruling class , and , as such , sweeps away by force the old conditions of production , then it will , along with these conditions , have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally , and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class . 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 .