Posted on 02/01/2019 4:15:04 AM PST by vannrox
It is impossible, of course, to carry out all these measures at once (i.e. the ten planks of communism), but one will always bring others in its wake. Once the first radical attack on private property has been launched, the proletariat will find itself forced to go ever further, to concentrate increasingly in the hands of the state all capital, all agriculture, all transport, all trade. All the foregoing measures are directed to this end; and they will become practicable and feasible, capable of producing their centralizing effects to precisely the degree that the proletariat, through its labor, multiplies the countrys productive forces.Merely a means to an end. As people are entrapped by economic freedom in the one-Party state in Red China, the allies of that Party in the country that has been the one biggest historical enemy of communism make things difficult in its most important economic centers and unable to fight back.
Finally, when all capital, all production, all exchange have been brought together in the hands of the nation, private property will disappear of its own accord, money will become superfluous, and production will so expand and man so change that society will be able to slough off whatever of its old economic habits may remain.
The Principles of Communism
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