‘10. Progressive income and property taxes to meet all public expenditure, so far as these are to be covered by taxation. Duty of making one’s own return of income and property. Succession duty to be graduated according to amount and relationship. Abolition of all indirect taxes, customs, and other financial measures which sacrifice the collective interest to the interests of a privileged minority. ‘For the protection of the working class the Social Democratic party of Germany demands— ‘1. An effective national and international protective legislation for workmen on the following bases:— ‘(_a_) Fixing of a normal working day of not more than eight hours. ‘(_b_) Prohibition of money-making labour of children under fourteen years. ‘(_c_) Prohibition of night work, except for those branches of industry which from their nature, owing to technical reasons or reasons of public welfare, require night work. ‘(_d_) An unbroken period of rest of at least thirty-six hours in every week for every worker. ‘(_e_) Prohibition of the truck system. ‘2. Supervision of all industrial establishments, investigation and regulation of the conditions of labour in town and country by an imperial labour department, district labour offices, and labour chambers. A thorough system of industrial hygiene. ‘3. Agricultural labourers and servants to be placed on the same footing as industrial workers; abolition of servants’ regulations. ‘4. The right of combination to be placed on a sure footing. ‘5. Undertaking of the entire working men’s insurance by the Empire, with effective co-operation of the workmen in its administration.’ If we consider the above programme we shall see that collectivism is set forth as the goal of a long process of historical evolution. But this goal is to be attained by the conscious, intelligent, and organised action of the working class of Germany in co-operation with the working classes of other lands. This is the twofold theme of the first part of the programme. The second part is a detailed statement of the social-political arrangements and institutions, by which on and from the basis of the existing society the German Social Democracy may move towards the goal. The goal, collectivism, is therefore the central point of the programme.