The immediate aim of communists is formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of bourgeois supremacy, and conquest of political power by the proletariat

Negation: The immediate aim of communists is not formation of the proletariat into a class, not overthrow of bourgeois supremacy, and not conquest of political power by the proletariat 0 0 0

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If it is true that...

Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working-class parties 1 0 2

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Communists do not have interests separate from those of the proletariat 1 0 2

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Communists represent the interests of the proletarian movement as a whole 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

The immediate aim of communists is formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of bourgeois supremacy, and conquest of political power by the proletariat 1 0 2

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Argument #d8b90029 1 0 2

If it is true that...

The immediate aim of communists is formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of bourgeois supremacy, and conquest of political power by the proletariat 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

All property relations have been subject to historical change consequent upon change in historical conditions 1 0 2

Argument #dc9035e6 1 0 2

If it is true that...

The immediate aim of communists is formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of bourgeois supremacy, and conquest of political power by the proletariat 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

The first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy 1 0 2

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Karl Marx/The Communist Manifesto

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The bourgeoisie has called into existence the men who are to wield these weapons — the modern working class, the proletarians 1 0 2 As the bourgeoisie develops, so does the proletariat, a class of laborers who live only as long as they find work and who find work only as long as their labor increases capital 1 0 2 The essential condition for existence and sway of bourgeois class is formation and augmentation of capital which rests on wage-labour and competition among labourers 1 0 2 Communists represent the interests of the proletarian movement as a whole 1 0 2 In bourgeois society, living labour is a means to increase accumulated labour while in communist society, accumulated labour is a means to promote existence of the labourer 1 0 2 The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest all capital from the bourgeoisie and centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the state 1 0 2 The first direct attempts of the proletariat to attain its own ends failed due to the undeveloped state of the proletariat and absence of economic conditions for its emancipation 1 0 2 The communists fight for the attainment of immediate aims and enforcement of momentary interests of the working class 1 0 2 The communists turn their attention chiefly to Germany because it is on the eve of a bourgeois revolution that will be followed by a proletarian revolution 1 0 2 Communists openly declare that their ends can only be attained by forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions 1 0 2