Karl Marx: Selected Writings - Editor: David McLellan - Softcover.

Karl Marx is absolutely brilliant concerning his approach to peasant revolution. Such examples of his brilliance is China, Russia, South-East Asia and Cuba. Marx understood the importance of the proletarian's existence in the social order and food chain. In these selected writings, Marx discusses the manipulation of the proletarian by the bourgeois social class, the importance of a collectivist society, the failures of capitalism, the advantages of socialism, etc... Ultimately, Marx states that, with the exception of China, capitalism will evolve into perfect communism. He also states on page 175, ten characteristic of a capitalistic society evolving into communism: 1) abolition of land property and rent, 2) a progressive income tax, 3) abolition of all inheritance, 4) confiscation of property, 5) centralization of credit into the state, 6) centralization of communication, 7) state-owned businesses, 8) equal liability to all labor, 9) abolition of difference between town and country, and 10) free education in public schools. This book is an excellent edition to any student of political philosophy.