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
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Private property in existing society is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population 1 0 2and
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 2Then it must be true that...
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 2Opposing Arguments
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Argument #ded2eb0a 1 0 2
If it is true that...
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 2and
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 2Then it must be true that...
Bourgeois society should have gone to dogs through idleness as those who work acquire nothing and those who acquire anything do not work 1 0 2Mentions
Karl Marx/The Communist Manifesto
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Modern bourgeois private property is based on class antagonisms and exploitation of many by few 1 0 2Communism aims at abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of one's own labour 1 0 2In 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 2Labour 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 2The abolition of bourgeois individuality, independence, and freedom is aimed at by communism 1 0 2Communism abolishes eternal truths, all religion, and all morality instead of constituting them on a new basis 1 0 2The 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 2In place of the old bourgeois society with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association where the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all 1 0 2The communists fight for the attainment of immediate aims and enforcement of momentary interests of the working class 1 0 2Communists openly declare that their ends can only be attained by forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions 1 0 2