Marx expected the abolition of private property and the institution of common ownership of the means of production and exchange to bring about a society in which people were motivated more by a desire for the good of all than by a specific desire for their own individual good. In this way individual and common interests could be harmonized. Coercion would be unnecessary because communism would end the conflict between individual interests and the common good. The state, as an agent of coercion, could then wither away, leaving only administrative functions to be run by the workers.
