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The proposition that men and women are first and foremost producers radically challenged basic assumptions about society that had been accepted by almost all earlier thinkers.
Alex Callinicos • The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx
Marxism-Leninism is a science with a sound economic and philosophical foundation. Mankind moved from slavery to feudalism to capitalism. The logical next and final step is communism.
Capitalism is based on the exploitation of workers by the rich owners of the means of production. The Marxist maxim, “From each according to his ability, to each
Capitalism is a historical form of life in which wage labor is the foundation of social wealth. The deepest stakes of Marx’s critique of capitalism reside in his critique of the measure of value that is entailed by the dependence of society on wage labor.
Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
In this process, Marx saw the seeds of a society that would eventually be reduced to two classes—owners and workers.
Matthew Wizinsky • Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow
Marx & Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848
It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom — Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.