on proto-socialism in capitalism

Marx , of course, doesn't ignore that the bourgeoisie use many of what he lists as proto-socialist forms against the working class in the class struggle while still under capitalist relations of production and property. Be clear . Marx is not , and I am not, saying that the US or France or Scandinavia are socialist. But it is fundamental to Marxism that some of socialism is formed within capitalism. The socialist revolution is a dialectical super-cession or sublation of capitalism. That means it both overcomes or negates _and_ preserves some of capitalism. It negates the capitalist private property for and preserves the socialized production. Capitalism prepares the ground for socialism in things like socializing ,to an enormous extent , and on a worldwide scale ( a worldwideweb ) labor. That's why you can't get directly to socialism from feudalism. Feudalism has not prepared things for socialism. As China found out, there is no road to socialism bypassing capitalism. These principles are very basic , fundamental and _necessary_ for espousing Marxism. We know that Marx considered the socialist revolution a dialectical process because of his use of terms like "negation of negation" in the following: "The capitalist mode of appropriation, the result of the capitalist mode of production, produces capitalist private property. This is the first negation of individual private property, as founded on the labour of the proprietor. But capitalist production begets, with the inexorability of a law of Nature, its own negation. It is the negation of negation. This does not re-establish private property for the producer, but gives him individual property based on the acquisition of the capitalist era: i.e., on cooperation and the possession in common of the land and of the means of production. " https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch32.htm Economic Manuscripts: Capital Vol. I - Chapter Thirty Two www.marxists.org Capital Vol. I : Chapter Thirty-Two (Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation)

The emotional thing to get over is that in some ways, socialism is not that different from capitalism. The revolution is not all exciting and new. Some of it is very mundane and boring. Logical but the same old same old.