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... communism [is] therefore... the complete return of man to himself as a social (i.e., human) being -- a return become conscious, and accomplished within the entire wealth of previous development. This communism... equals humanism...

wages and private property are identical: where the product, the object of labor pays for itself, the wage is but a necessary consequence of labor's estrangement, for after all in the wage of labor, labor does not appear as an end in itself but as the servant of the wage.