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Communists saw Capitalism as Feudalism evolved, and eventually things would get so bad everyone would revolt against the landlords and the factoryowners whose ownership of everything forced the masses to work for starvation wages. This shared experience made Communism inevitable, so the working people of the world would cooperate and never live this way again.

Reading this optimism now is quite painful.

We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For [...] he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger.