Material abundance and socialism

[ind_com]

Do you think that material abundance to the proportions shown by developed capitalist countries, is necessary for a socialist revolution? Or do you think that it is all about the working classes wielding power?

With capitalism, there appeared the proletariat, whose natural class positions make it compatible with communism. Would you claim that other than this factor and the development of communist ideology itself, the world was ready for socialist revolutions from very ancient times when civilizations became advanced enough to interact with each other across continents? I have the slave societies of Greece etc in mind.

[Positivist]

Socialism arose as the ideological expression of the proletarian class interests, which had not been properly formed until the dispossession of the great masses of the population which effectively created said proletariat. This being the case, socialism deals directly with the resolution of the contradictions which are specific to capitalist production, and therefore socialism can only arise out of this mode of production.