The Communist Manifesto

by Karl Marx

a revolution by legal means.

Interesting..

The human condition is, first, one of “alienating” dependence on nature, which man invents tools to master. Technological development, however, leads to a “division of labor” which creates the further alienation of humanity split into warring social classes, thereby sundering the primal unity of the species. Marx’s idea of “emancipation” from these dehumanizing forms of servitude, therefore, does not mean individual freedom. It means, rather, liberation of the species over the long haul of history from the socioeconomic shackles of its own creation.

The same can be said for any movement or string of thought that categorises humans!

The proletariat is the agent of this emancipation because it is the only class whose particular interest is synonymous with the general interests of humanity. And it is charged with this supreme mission precisely because it is the most exploited and hence most dehumanized class in existing society.

Boj proti normam: nasprotujejo seveda tisti, ki problema ne trpijo. Za spremembe bodo vedno tisti, ki zaradi trenutnih stanji, trpijo največ in imajo zato tudi dober razlog.

it was as the victim class that it became the redeemer class, the class to end all classes.

Marx’s answer was by destroying the false gods of liberal individualism: private property and the market.

“movement meant everything” and the “final goal nothing.”

Pizdakati ljudem o problemih sveta brez ideje kako bi situacijo izboljšali je huje, kot če o njih sploh ne bi govorili. (komercialno je, samo promocija v obliki samopotrdila. Komerciala pa je znak kapitalizma!)

The outcome was the War Communism of 1918–21: private property, profit, the market, and indeed money were abolished (at least on paper);

Leninova ideja komunizma je bila ta, da Vangarda vodi nad ljudmi. Marxova ideja je bila bolj racionalne narave in je govorila o boljši kolektivni usodi ljudi. P.S. Veljati na papirju in veljati med človekom in človekom sta dve zelo različni zadevi.

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other—bourgeoisie and proletariat.

Sistem slojev se ni spremenil v ničemer, razen v tem, da se je posplošil na le dve nasprotujoči si sili. Danes lazje kot kadarkoli prej razdelimo ljudi med oppressorje in the oppressed!

Meantime the markets kept ever growing, the demand ever rising. Even manufacture no longer sufficed. Thereupon, steam and machinery revolutionised industrial production. The place of manufacture was taken by the giant, modern industry, the place of the industrial middle class by industrial millionaires, the leaders of whole industrial armies, the modern bourgeois.

Kosovel - proti mehanizaciji človeka!

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his “natural superiors,” and has left no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous “cash payment.”

Zgolj zamenjali smo starega boga za novega.. ..ime mu je Denar.

The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society.

The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.

Ta potreba je pošast (ne le specter), ki dirja okoli sveta. Pošast, ki bo znova in znova potolkla vse, pa če tudi je moznost tako majhna, da bo dobila "upper hand" v dirki lastne kreacije.

It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.

Pravila so zastavljena v obliki ultimata - pridruzite se v pošastni dirki, ali pa vas bo potolkla v "point of no return".

Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian and semi-barbarian countries dependent on the civilised ones, nations of peasants on nations of bourgeois, the East on the West.

Kot dober (beri najhujši mozen) diler, ti dajo "a taste of the good stuff" povlečejo te noter, nato pa te ne spustijo - odvisen si!

Subjection of nature’s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground—what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?

Burzuazije pričarajo največjo delovno silo v vsej zgodovin. Mehanizacija ljudi, stroji mašine.. človek, ki dela, je le še izkoriščen (v imenu boga "Denarja")!

Owing to the extensive use of machinery and to division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for his maintenance, and for the propagation of his race. But the price of a commodity, and therefore also of labour, is equal to its cost of production. In proportion, therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases. Nay more, in proportion as the use of machinery and division of labour increases, in the same proportion the burden of toil also increases, whether by prolongation of the working hours, by increase of the work exacted in a given time, or by increased speed of the machinery, etc.

Mehaniziranje ljudi vodi v izgubo človeškosti /osebnosti, človek ni nesmrten (nesmrtna je le v smisl delovne sile - burzuazija zeli uvesti delavcem v glavo nesmrtnost na mesto disposable), zgolj stroj postane /objekt (kar v svetu lastnine ni dobro biti), kot takeg ga tudi dojemajo.

Masses of labourers, crowded into the factory, are organised like soldiers. As privates of the industrial army they are placed under the command of a perfect hierarchy of officers and sergeants. Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois state; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overlooker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.

Sodobna oblika suzenjstva. Stroj je v lasti nekoga - človek ni lastnina - mehanizacija človeka (obljuba nesmrtnosti) - človek = stroj = lastnina

All are instruments of labour, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex.

Vsi morajo delati, a starost in spol pogojujeta plačo. Enakost a ne enakost (ze takrat)!

In the conditions of the proletariat, those of old society at large are already virtually swamped. The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois family relations; modern industrial labour, modern subjection to capital, the same in England as in France, in America as in Germany, has stripped him of every trace of national character. Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.

Burzuazija začenja svoje dolged mastne prste vtikat v vse v čemer je vsaj kanček moznosti dobička! Religija, pravo in druge idelologije postanejo trzno fetišizirane. Kapitalizem je nenehni boj, kolo, ki se nenehno obrača - tudi, ko je bil še v zibelki, burzuazija ni popuščala.. Tako dolgo je hlipala in se vlekla v nadajne boje, da je so njeni nasprotniki (vseh hoda) v boju izgubili svoj karakter.

The modern labourer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the progress of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth. And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an overriding law.

Ko ljudje postanjajo vedno bolj odveč, razlog tega v interesu čim večjega keš zasluzka.

It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society.

Zgodba v oppressorjih in the oppressed je vedno temeljila na taktičnem manevru oppressorjev: Daj ljudem toliko, da se jim ne bo splačalo upreti (a niti ficka več kot to).

The distinguishing feature of communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few. In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

To be a capitalist, is to have not only a purely personal, but a social, status in production. Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion. Capital is therefore not a personal, it is a social power.

The average price of wage labour is the minimum wage, i.e., that quantum of the means of subsistence which is absolutely requisite to keep the labourer in bare existence as a labourer.

1. Ljudjed smo ze sami tako grajeni, da v temi prvo pogledamo proti svetlobi...

the labourer lives merely to increase capital, and is allowed to live only in so far as the interest of the ruling class requires it.

2. …a okoli svetlobe je še vedno velika strašno lačna tema.

On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among proletarians, and in public prostitution.

Elitizem: Kapitalizem je druzina za le izbrano peščico, ki ima kapital. Ti starši mnozično zlorabljajo svoje otroke v dejanju hiperproukcije za cash payment.

The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women. He has not even a suspicion that the real point aimed at is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production.

Burzuazija dojema zenske kot stroj za proizvodnjo, kot take ne zna drugače - jih zlorablja, ker ima nekaj od tega.

What else does the history of ideas prove, than that intellectual production changes its character in proportion as material production is changed? The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

“Undoubtedly,” it will be said, “religious, moral, philosophical and juridical ideas have been modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality, philosophy, political science, and law, constantly survived this change.”

Sodoben kapijtalizem je velik in lepo rejen. S svojo zlato mrzlico je okuzil vse okoli sebe - ideologije pridejo iz zaprtih krogov v javnost le, ko so trzno fetišizirane (pripravljene za vesela potrošniška usta ali pa pozrešnemu apetitu lastnikov kapitala.) kastracija in utišanje umetnost, banalikziranje filozofije, trzenje znanosti, manipuliranje prava. ^naked self interest

reforms, therefore, that in no respect affect the relations between capital and labour, but, at the best, lessen the cost, and simplify the administrative work of bourgeois government. Bourgeois socialism attains adequate expression when, and only when, it becomes a mere figure of speech. Free trade: for the benefit of the working class. Protective duties: for the benefit of the working class. Prison reform: for the benefit of the working class. This is the last word and the only seriously meant word of bourgeois socialism. It is summed up in the phrase: the bourgeois is a bourgeois—for the benefit of the working class.

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Hence, they reject all political, and especially all revolutionary action; they wish to attain their ends by peaceful means, and endeavour, by small experiments, necessarily doomed to failure, and by the force of example, to pave the way for the new social gospel.

Ljudje hlapčujejo, na pol so prepognjeni. Videli so in občutili kako gospodar vihti bič za zabavo (entertainment). Bojijo si ga občutiti v krvavem boju, pri tem pa pozabljajo, da je gospodar le eden, hlapčevskih rok pa je mnogo!

The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!