Communism aims at abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of one's own labour

Negation: Communism does not aim at abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of one's own labour 0 0 0

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If it is true that...

Communism aims at abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of one's own labour 1 0 2

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Wage-labour does not create any property for the labourer but creates capital, a kind of property that exploits wage-labour 1 0 2

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Capital is a collective product and a social power 1 0 2

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The average price of wage-labour is the minimum wage that suffices to prolong and reproduce bare existence 1 0 2

Then it must be true that...

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

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Karl Marx/The Communist Manifesto

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