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Edited on Fri Jan-07-05 01:51 AM by LoZoccolo
...why anarchists are left-wing, or why communists in the Marxist sense are somewhat like anarchists in the long run.
When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organise itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.
This is from the end of part II of The Communist Manifesto, titled "Proletarians and Communists". (That's right FReepers, I've read The Communist Manifesto! Your wacko conspiracy theories about liberals are right moooohahahaha!)
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