The transition from Capitalism to Communism

[Red Shaker]

Some interesting comments on the transition from Capitalism to Communism.

http://critiqueofcrisistheory.wordpress.com/money-wage-labor-and-marxs-critique-of-the-gotha-program/

The points raised in this article need to be carefully discussed if we are to get over the failures of the old communist movement.

[tuwix]

I find nothing pretty interesting in terms of transition from capitalism in this article. Because one phrase of Marx describe it very well:

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly -- only then then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch01.htm

It indicates that automation in production will build it.

[Red Shaker]

I said it was interesting not completely right. The article has an aspect of the same weakness that the quote from Marx you cite has. The transition to communism requires more than the development of the productive forces of society, it also requires the development of the political consciousness of the working class. Today it is the lack of consciousness that holds back the transition to communism, not the lack of productive forces.