What Is The Meaning Of Specific Measures Called For By The Communist Party By Karl Marx

I am really interested in philosophical theory, but I often become frustrated when theory is not put in to practice. I am interested in Marx’s “Specific measures called for by the Communist Party” because it meant to serve as the concrete goals or methods of a specific theory. Some of these measures seem better or more attainable than others, and I am interested in reflecting on each of them to gain a better understanding of how each measure could (or should) work. I have always been attracted to Communism on a theoretical level, but the historical circumstances surrounding it have left me somewhat wary. By reflecting on these measures, I seek to understand the sources of possible (and past) abuses and how these abuses could be addressed.

1. Abolition of property in land and application of

If the economic system was set up fairly and everyone had access to their own private property, I don’t think private property in and of itself would necessarily be bad. Private property only becomes a problem when exploited workers or people who are unable to work cannot possibly own private property, so that the majority of land falls into the hands of a few people. However, is it possible for there to be private property without abuses? Is it even possible for a government to own all property and there be no abuses? Marx’s ideas on private property appear to be influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau , who, in the Discourse on Inequality (1755), stated that: “The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.” Thus, for Rousseau, private property is not what he would call a natural right but a civil (man-made) right. Rousseau later echoes this idea in The Social Contract