Kez
22nd December 2001, 15:00
THE CAPITALIST SOCIAL ORDER
The small group of the wealthy owns everything; the huge masses of the poor own nothing but the hands with which they work. This monopoly of the means of production by the capitalist class is the second leading characteristic of the capitalist system.
The difference between the capitalist economy and the simple commodity economy consists in this, that in the capitalist economy labour power itself becomes a commodity. Thus, the third characteristic of the capitalist system is the existence of wage labour.
The first reason for the disharmony of capitalist society is the anarchy of production, which leads to crises, internecine, and wars.
The second reason for the disharmony of capitalist society is to be found in the class structure of that society.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM
The number of the capitalists grows smaller, but these few capitalists grow richer and stronger; the number of the workers continually increases, and working class solidarity likewise increases, though not to the same extent; the contrast between the workers and the capitalists grows even greater. Inevitably, therefore, the development of capitalism leads to a clash between the two classes, that is, it leads to the Communist revolution.
Capitalism does not merely create its own enemies and does not only lead to the communist revolution, but it brings into being the economic basis for the realization of the communist social order.
CAPITALISM LEADS TO REVOLUTION
'Free competition' has been replaced by the dominion of capitalist combines, by the rule of syndicates and trusts.
SECOND AND THIRD INTERNATIONAL
The workers' communist movement can conquer only as an international communist movement.
Pacifism tends to prevent the workers from concentrating their attention upon the armed struggle for Communism.
COMMUNISM AND RELIGION
The transition from socialism to communism, the transition from the society which makes an end of capitalism to the society which is completely freed from all traces of class division and class struggle, will bring about the natural death of all religion and all superstition.
The small group of the wealthy owns everything; the huge masses of the poor own nothing but the hands with which they work. This monopoly of the means of production by the capitalist class is the second leading characteristic of the capitalist system.
The difference between the capitalist economy and the simple commodity economy consists in this, that in the capitalist economy labour power itself becomes a commodity. Thus, the third characteristic of the capitalist system is the existence of wage labour.
The first reason for the disharmony of capitalist society is the anarchy of production, which leads to crises, internecine, and wars.
The second reason for the disharmony of capitalist society is to be found in the class structure of that society.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAPITALISM
The number of the capitalists grows smaller, but these few capitalists grow richer and stronger; the number of the workers continually increases, and working class solidarity likewise increases, though not to the same extent; the contrast between the workers and the capitalists grows even greater. Inevitably, therefore, the development of capitalism leads to a clash between the two classes, that is, it leads to the Communist revolution.
Capitalism does not merely create its own enemies and does not only lead to the communist revolution, but it brings into being the economic basis for the realization of the communist social order.
CAPITALISM LEADS TO REVOLUTION
'Free competition' has been replaced by the dominion of capitalist combines, by the rule of syndicates and trusts.
SECOND AND THIRD INTERNATIONAL
The workers' communist movement can conquer only as an international communist movement.
Pacifism tends to prevent the workers from concentrating their attention upon the armed struggle for Communism.
COMMUNISM AND RELIGION
The transition from socialism to communism, the transition from the society which makes an end of capitalism to the society which is completely freed from all traces of class division and class struggle, will bring about the natural death of all religion and all superstition.