When Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto, which makes thinking about the excesses and abuses of the industrial revolution. Marx was a bourgeois exploiter that dehumanizes workers, wretchedly paid, with excessive hours of working time no matter who exploit children and women in industry. So writes a manifesto defending the class (proletariat) had so few opportunities.
However, this does not justify the radical methods suggested in its manifesto. Historical determinism (the influence of Hegel) is based on two classes have always existed in a constant struggle between patricians and plebeians in ancient times, the feudal lord and his servants in the Middle Ages, and its present: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. For Marx, the motor of history is the struggle of these classes: There is no other!
What this means is that you can not exist at any moment in history because it is determined, reconciliation or negotiation between the bourgeois and the proletarian struggle only, only war.
Marx says in his manifesto "In outlining the general stages of development of the proletariat, we followed the course of the civil war more or less hidden to be developed within existing society, up to the time of transformed into open revolution, and the proletariat by the forcible overthrow of the bourgeoisie lays the foundation domination. "
Then How does this proletariat to impose its domination? First instance must create a new man free from concepts like private property (the bourgeois) or family (also bourgeois), in addition to the opium of the people as referred to religion. This should be implemented
a revolution for the proletariat comes to power and then a dictatorship. This must have more or less the following characteristics:
"1) Abolition of property in land and application of the rent of land for state spending.
2) Strong progressive tax.
3) Abolition of inheritance rights.
4) Confiscation of property of all emigrants and rebels.
5) Centralization credit in the hands of the state through a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6) centralization in the hands of the State of all means of transport.
7) Multiplication of manufacturing firms belonging to the State and instruments of production, reclamation of waste lands and improvement of land, according to a general plan.
8) Obligation to work for all; Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9) Combination of agriculture and industry measures to gradually do away with the opposition between town and countryside.
10) Public education and free all children, abolition of child labor in their factories as practiced today, the education system combined with material wealth. "
When these objectives are achieved in this dictatorship, then the state will disappear in an anarchist conception of the political system, because society will be perfect and happy. That is, strangely disappear dialectical synthesis to reach perfection: communism. We have therefore a Candido who travels the world dreaming of utopias and perfect worlds.
short, Karl Marx saw the imperfection of the world was that there an oppressive class and its thesis is based on that if it is eliminated, all the world's ills will disappear. Communism is therefore a Utopia which fantasized over Thomas More and laughed Voltaire.
Man as a person clearly person can point to perfection, but the perfect world can not refuse to his "other" or turning his ideological opponent in strategic enemy. It is impossible. It's inhumane.
recognize the good intentions of these "Candide" but you can not roam the world with a Utopia in the mind that is not consistent with reality. Dreams turn into nightmares and these, as in the etchings of Goya, monsters. Still less to impose a single way of thinking man. And Locke had said, the state may not be getting into the inner life of the individual. The individual is sovereign for their actions and free will.
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