Demands of the Communist Party in Germany
독일 공산당의 요구 (1848)
The seventeen-point programme leaflet written by Marx and Engels in Paris between 21 and 29 March 1848 and issued in the name of the Communist League's Central Committee. Opening with "The whole of Germany shall be declared a united, indivisible republic", it demanded the vote at 21, a people's army, abolition of feudal burdens without compensation, state ownership of princely estates, mines and transport, a state bank, progressive taxation, national workshops and free education. It was the League's practical programme for the March Revolution.
In depth
The leaflet was printed in Paris around 30 March 1848 and in Cologne before 10 September, signed by Marx, Schapper, H. Bauer, Engels, Moll and W. Wolff. It also called for pay for deputies, free justice, state ownership of mortgages on peasant farms, equal pay for civil servants, separation of church and state, limitation of inheritance and abolition of consumption taxes. It concluded that these measures were in the interest of "the German proletariat, the petty bourgeoisie and the peasantry", showing the strategy of putting workers' and peasants' demands forward within the bourgeois-democratic revolution.