Month: May 2020

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. Marx, Private Property and Communism (1844) Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement […]

Marx. Letter to Annenkov Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. Without slavery there would be no cotton, without cotton there would be no modern industry. It is slavery which has given value to the colonies, it is the colonies which have created world […]