SOME FORGOTTEN MARXISM
How capitalism is setting the scene for its own departure
8500 words
This booklet looks at how capitalism removes what were previously insurmountable barriers to a classless communist society.
Capitalism's economic development reaches a level where classless equality would no longer mean shared poverty and toil, something which history tells us is impossible. Its undermining of traditional culture makes us readier for the new society. And its transformation of people from peasants and petty producers into employees means that most people have no vested interest in a system based on private property.
This task of capitalism is far from complete with much of the world still quite backward. So the more that can be accomplished in the coming years the better our prospects.
The mainspring of the new post-capitalist society will be the relations of production based on social ownership and a culture of mutual regard; and its result will be the free all-round development of the individual. In the past such a society was just a utopian pipe dream. Now it becomes something made possible by historically created conditions.
But while capitalism makes this new society possible, it still requires us to create a powerful revolutionary movement to overcome its tenacious and powerful supporters.