Marx wrote in 1844:
“...to meet with success, industrial competition requires numerous armies that can be concentrated in one place and copiously decimated.”
A FEW YEARS LATER " . . . in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm
How to decimate the peasantry. Works the same in any country.
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