Monday, November 21, 2022
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From: Charles Brown
Socialism overcomes and preserves capitalism
This is our goal : " the transformation of capitalistic private
property, _already practically resting on socialized production_, into
socialized property. " We can preserve practically all of that is
already practically resting on socialized production and overcome the
private property with socialized property so that property relations
match productive relations.
David I think the west is eventually (in the next generation) going
to actually embrace socialism, and from there, it will likely develop
and become full-blown communism. That's my two cents.//// I have
substantial agreement with you on this. I think more in terms of
objective tendencies within capitalism to prepare the ground for
socialism, such as Lenin's reference to monopoly as proto-socialism
still within capitalist relations of production. (See _Imperialism:
the Highest Stage of Capitalism_) Also, things like socialized
medicine in Canada or Scandinavia or France. Healthcare would be
substantially the same in socialism, as far as I see. Socialism is a
supercession or sublation of capitalism, meaning it overcomes and
preserves capitalism. Some of what is capitalism now will be preserved
as socialism.
Karl Marx: "One capitalist always kills many. Hand in hand with this
centralization, or this expropriation of many capitalists by few,
develop, on an ever-extending scale, the cooperative form of the
labour process, the conscious technical application of science, the
methodical cultivation of the soil, the transformation of the
instruments of labour into instruments of labour only usable in
common, the economizing of all means of production by their use as
means of production of combined, socialized labour, the entanglement
of all peoples in the net of the world market, and with this, the
international character of the capitalistic regime. Along with the
constantly diminishing number of the magnates of capital, who usurp
and monopolize all advantages of this process of transformation, grows
the mass of misery, oppression, slavery, degradation, exploitation;
but with this too grows the revolt of the working class, a class
always increasing in numbers, and disciplined, united, organized by
the very mechanism of the process of capitalist production itself. The
monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production,
which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it.
Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labour
at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their
capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of
capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are
expropriated."/////////
/////////// comment CB : "the cooperative form of the labour process,
the conscious technical application of science, the methodical
cultivation of the soil, the transformation of the instruments of
labour into instruments of labour only usable in common, the
economizing of all means of production by their use as means of
production of combined, socialized labour, the entanglement of all
peoples in the net of the world market, and with this, the
international character of the capitalistic regime..." and
"Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labour
" are all socialist forms developed in monopoly capitalism that are
preserved in some sense in socialism.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch32.htm
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