Monday, March 21, 2016

Communism, "The German Ideology"

"Communism is for us not a state of affairs to be established, an ideal to which reality must conform. We call communism the real movement that supersedes the present state of affairs. The conditions of this movement derive from presuppositions that presently exist."

"The proletariat can thus only exist world-historically, just as communism, the action of the proletariat, can be present at all only as a 'world-historical' existence [...] But with the supersession of the basis [of this relationship], the supersession i.e. of private property, with the communist regulation of production and what that regulation implies, namely the destruction of the estrangement with which men relate to their own product, the power of the relationship of supply and demand dissolves into nothing and men regain power over exchange, production, and the way they relate to one another."

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