Does it take vision to understand that in mind, the views and understanding of men -- in short, human consciousness -- changes with every change in the conditions of his material life, in social relations and in his social life? What else is evidenced by the history of thought, except that the changing nature of his intellectual production equal to the production of material things that have changed? The thoughts that dominate in each era is always the thoughts of the ruling class.
When people talk about the thoughts that revolutionize the society, it is nothing but express the fact, that within the old society, the elements of a new society has been created, and that the melting of old thoughts are running with the same steps with the melting of old life terms.
However the shape, the reality is the same for all times in the distant past, namely, the exploitation of the people by a majority of the other part. So it is not surprising that the social consciousness of past ages, and even if there is a whole spectrum of shades, engaged in certain forms of the same, or general ideas, which can not be lost entirely except with the disappearance at all the class antagonisms.
If in the course of development, the class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated into the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, public power will lose its political character. Political power, in the proper sense of the word, only the organized power of one class for oppressing another class. If the proletariat during its struggle against the bourgeoisie is forced, because of the pressure of circumstances, to organize itself as a class, if, by way of revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as the ruling class, eliminating the violent relations of production that long, so it, together with these terms will eliminate the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and the existence of classes generally, and will thereby eliminating its own power as a class.
And as a replacement of the old bourgeois society with its classes along with class antagonisms, we will have a community life in which the free development of each person becomes a condition for the free development of all.
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[CZ-lacalifusa 021514/to you, dahling]
What is this, Cisca? Please give an explanation, because it is not much better than saying you love him.Is this your kind of love letter to him, hm?
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