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(2) The organization of labor itself as social labor through cooperation, the division of labor, and fusing of labor with the natural sciences. | (2) The organization of labor itself as social labor through cooperation, the division of labor, and fusing of labor with the natural sciences. | ||
Marx then notes that on both accounts (1) and (2), the capitalist mode of production ''abolishes'' private property and private labor, ''even if in antithetical forms''.<ref>Capital Volume III (Penguin), p. 375.</ref> | Marx then notes that on both accounts (1) and (2), the capitalist mode of production ''abolishes'' private property and private labor, ''even if in antithetical forms''.<ref>Capital Volume III (Penguin), p. 375.</ref> | ||
Marxism understands the capitalist development of the productive forces of social labor as its ''historic mission'' and ''justification''. For that very reason, it unwittingly creates the material conditions for a higher form of production. Capitalist production is not an absolute, but only a ''historical'' mode of production, corresponding to a ''specific'' and ''limited'' epoch. Marx's scientific analysis of the capitalist mode of production shows that it is a mode of production of a ''particular'' kind and a specific ''historical determinacy''; of its ''historically transitory character''. <ref>Capital, Volume III (Penguin), pp. 365-8, 1018.</ref> | |||
=== The Formation of Joint-Stock Companies === | === The Formation of Joint-Stock Companies === | ||
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(1) Tremendous expansion in the scale of production at enterprises which would be other impossible for individual capitalists (read ''development of productive forces''). | (1) Tremendous expansion in the scale of production at enterprises which would be other impossible for individual capitalists (read ''development of productive forces''). | ||
(2) At the same time, capital, which is inherently based on a social mode of production and presupposes a social concentration of means of production and labor-power, | (2) At the same time, capital, which is inherently based on a social mode of production and presupposes a social concentration of means of production and labor-power, now receives the ''form'' ''of'' ''social capital'' (this is what a joint-stock company is, i.e. a public company) in contrast to private capital, and its enterprises appear as ''social enterprises'' ''as opposed to private ones.'' This is the ''abolition of capital as private property within the confines (context) of the capitalist mode of production itself''. | ||
Marx calls this precisely the abolition of the capitalist mode of production within the capitalist mode of production itself, and hence a self-abolishing contradiction, which presents itself as a mere point of transition to a ''new form of production''.<ref>Capital Volume III (Penguin), p. 569.</ref> | Marx calls this precisely the abolition of the capitalist mode of production within the capitalist mode of production itself, and hence a self-abolishing contradiction, which presents itself as a mere point of transition to a ''new form of production''.<ref>Capital Volume III (Penguin), p. 569.</ref> | ||
=== The Transitory Nature of Capitalism === | |||
==Notable socialist states== | ==Notable socialist states== | ||