Go suck a hog's ass. On Oct 12, 3:06 am, "\"Lone Wolf\"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the > right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man’s own > labour, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal > freedom, activity and independence. > > Hard-won, self-acquired, self-earned property! The abolition of this > state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of individuality > and freedom! > > You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. > But in your existing society, private property is already done away > with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is > solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths. You > reproach us therefore, with intending to do away with a form of > property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non- > existence of any property for the immense majority of society. > > In one word, you reproach us with intending to do away with your > property. Precisely so; that is just what we intend. > > From the moment when labour can no longer be converted into capital, > money, or rent, into a social power capable of being monopolised, > i.e., from the moment when individual property can no longer be > transformed into bourgeois property, into capital, from that moment, > you say, individuality vanishes. > > You must, therefore, confess that by “individual” you mean no other > person than the bourgeois, than the middle-class owner of property. > This person must, indeed, be swept out of the way, and made > impossible. > > Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of > society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate > the labour of others by means of such appropriations. > > It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property, all > work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us. > > According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to > the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members, who work, > acquire nothing, and those who acquire everything do not work. The > whole of this objection is but another expression of the tautology: > that there can no longer be any wage-labour when there is no longer > any capital. > > All objections urged against the Communistic mode of producing and > appropriating material products, have, in the same way, been urged > against the Communistic mode of producing and appropriating > intellectual products. Just as, to the bourgeois, the disappearance of > class property is the disappearance of production itself, so the > disappearance of class culture is to him identical with the > disappearance of all culture. > > That culture, the loss of which he laments, is, for the enormous > majority, a mere training to act as a machine. > But don’t wrangle with us so long as you apply, to our intended > abolition of bourgeois property, the standard of your bourgeois > notions of freedom, culture, law, &c. Your very ideas are but the > outgrowth of the conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois > property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class > made into a law for all, a will whose essential character and > direction are determined by the economical conditions of existence of > your class. > > The selfish misconception that induces you to transform into eternal > laws of nature and of reason, the social forms springing from your > present mode of production and form of property – historical relations > that rise and disappear in the progress of production – this > misconception you share with every ruling class that has preceded you. > What you see clearly in the case of ancient property, what you admit > in the case of feudal property, you are of course forbidden to admit > in the case of your own bourgeois form of property. > > Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this > infamous proposal of the Communists. > The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the > hallowed co-relation of parents and child, becomes all the more > disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all the family > ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children > transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of > labour. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum
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