Capital is a collective product and a social power

Negation: Capital is not a collective product and not a social power 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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As industry, commerce, navigation, railways extended, so did the bourgeoisie develop and increase its capital 1 0 3 The means of production and exchange on which the bourgeoisie built itself up were generated in feudal society 1 0 2 Modern industry has converted the small workshop into the great factory of the industrial capitalist 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 Wage-labour does not create any property for the labourer but creates capital, a kind of property that exploits wage-labour 1 0 2 In bourgeois society, capital is independent and has individuality while the living person is dependent and has no individuality 1 0 2 Labour can no longer be converted into capital, money, or rent into a social power capable of being monopolised when individual property can no longer be transformed into bourgeois property 1 0 2 Communism deprives no man of power to appropriate products of society but deprives him of power to subjugate labour of others by means of such appropriations 1 0 2 The present family, the bourgeois family, is based on capital and private gain 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