Communist Party statement on prostitution
“…for the rest it is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of production must bring with it the abolition of the community of women springing from the system i.e. of prostitution both public and private!”
(Marx & Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party, 1848)
Read More »The economic oppression of the workers inevitably calls forth and engenders every kind of political oppression and social humiliation, the coarsening and darkening of the spiritual and moral life of the masses. The workers may secure a greater or lesser degree of political liberty to fight for their economic emancipation, but no amount of liberty will rid them of poverty, unemployment, and oppression until the power of capital is overthrown. Religion is one of the forms of spiritual oppression which everywhere weighs down heavily upon the masses of the people, over burdened by their perpetual work for others, by want and isolation. Impotence of the exploited classes in their struggle against the exploiters just as inevitably gives rise to the belief in a better life after death as impotence of the savage in his battle with nature gives rise to belief in gods, devils, miracles, and the like. Those who toil and live in want all their lives are taught by religion to be submissive and patient while here on earth, and to take comfort in the hope of a heavenly reward. But those who live by the labour of others are taught by religion to practise charity while on earth, thus offering them a very cheap way of justifying their entire existence as exploiters and selling them at a moderate price tickets to well-being in heaven. Religion is opium for the people. Religion is a sort of spiritual booze, in which the slaves of capital drown their human image, their demand for a life more or less worthy of man.
The protectionists have never protected small industry, handicraft proper. Have Dr. List and his school in Germany by any chance demanded protective tariffs for the small linen industry, for hand loom-weaving, for handicraft production? No, when they demanded protective tariffs they did so only in order to oust handicraft production with machines and patriarchal industry with modern industry. In a word, they wish to extend the dominion of the bourgeoisie, and in particular of the big industrial capitalists. They went so far as to proclaim aloud the decline and fall of small industry and the petty bourgeoisie, of small farming and the small peasants, as a sad but inevitable and, as far as the industrial development of Germany is concerned, necessary occurrence.
The Protectionists, the Free Traders and the Working Class
I finished reading Capitalism and Disability, earlier. The last chapter is about Nazi eugenics.
Now to push myself to finish The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.
The more democratic the system of government is, the clearer it will be to the workers that the root of the evil is not the lack of rights, but capitalism.
Vladimir Lenin
Under capitalism democratism is restricted, cramped, curtailed, mutilated by all the conditions of wage slavery and of the poverty and misery of the masses.
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Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich: this is the democratism of capitalist society
Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution
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I just finished listening to three chapters of Capitalism and Disability. I haven’t read any more of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, though. I’m not sure if I’ll get to it, this weekend, or not. I still have to set up my laptop and backup my iPad so that I can reset it.
I just finished listening to two Chapters of Capitalism and Disability and reading one chapter of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State.
I was able to listen to two Chapters of Capitalism and Disability, earlier. I’ve been experiencing quite a bit of pain, lately. When I’m in pain, I can’t concentrate, so I didn’t even attempt to read The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. Hopefully, the pain subsides some, soon.
In other news, I found this funny. Fairbanks Morse Defense isn’t far from me, so I liked their Facebook page to stay up-to-date. They make engines for naval vessels. The Little Crappy Ships are the only ones that I’m aware of (one reason why I’m interested in them). In fact, those ships were made at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard up North. Someday, I’ll have to look into Fairbanks Morse’s history.
Anyway, good night or morning, depending on your sleep schedule.
I finished listening to Chapter 9 of Capitalism and Disability. I haven’t attempted reading any of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State yet. Maybe later tonight.
I listened to Chapters 6, 7, & 8 of Capitalism and Disability, earlier. As for The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, I was able to get through The Monogamous Family. Meanwhile, I’m currently listening to a lecture on Women, the Family, and the Russian Revolution.
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