Now the program does not deal with this nor with the future state of communist society. They are a mere echo of the bourgeois People's party , of the League of Peace and Freedom . They are all demands which, insofar as they are not exaggerated in fantastic presentation, have already been realized . Only the state to which they belong does not lie within the borders of the German Empire, but in Switzerland, the United States, etc. But one thing has been forgotten.
Taxes are the economic basis of the government machinery and of nothing else.
In the state of the future, existing in Switzerland, this demand has been pretty well fulfilled. Income tax presupposes various sources of income of the various social classes, and hence capitalist society. Universal and equal elementary education by the state. Universal compulsory school attendance. Universal compulsory school attendance.