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Marx did not only outline what is wrong with capitalism; he also illustrated ideas of how he wanted his ideology to be implemented. In “The Communist Manifesto,” he describes a world without private property or inherited wealth, with a steeply graduated income tax, and centralized control of the banking, communication, and transport industries, and free public education (Marx et al., 1992). Marx also expected a communist society would allow people to develop various different sides of their natures. In a communist society he wrote, it is “possible to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic” (Marx, 1845).