Property in Land There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe .... -William Blackstone, Commentaries (1766)' The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all

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... ments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organized as the ruling class.... [I]n the most advanced countries, the following [measures] will be pretty generally applicable.