It is in the second section of the Manifesto that Marx notes ten measures required for bringing about a Socialist State. These include the abolition of private property and the abolition of inheritance rights. Marx then calls for the centralization of both production and credit in the hands of the State.
Even more, he calls for the State to wield an “exclusive monopoly” on all credit and all means of production. Number six on the list asserts that all communication and “transport” is to be centralized and controlled by the State. Whereas, measure eight notes that there is an “Equal obligation of all to labor” with “industrialized armies” established for the carrying out of necessary labor.
Marx recognizes that these measures cannot be achieved peacefully.
“Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property,” he writes.
In other words; by force. Force is concentrated in the hands of the State and then leveraged to bring about a new Socialist order.
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