Points 8 and 9 sound like deliberate misreadings of the manifesto. The actual text says:
"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."
8 is calling for a regimented, organized worker mass that operates like an army. Marx/Engels might have been calling for worker conscription too, but I don't know enough about the context.
9 is calling for a closer bond between agriculture and industry, since that was a real problem of supply chains in 1848. There were still a whole lot of subsistence farming peasants. The abolition between town and country represents the same problem. Resource distribution was lopsided.
I think I've read Marx/Engels correctly. Certainly they didn't mean "corporate farms."
Points 8 and 9 sound like deliberate misreadings of the manifesto. The actual text says:
"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."
I think I've read Marx/Engels correctly. Certainly they didn't mean "corporate farms."
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