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''Der Kommunismus ist für uns nicht ein Zustand, der hergestellt werden soll, ein Ideal, wonach die Wirklichkeit sich zu richten haben [wird]. Wir nennen Kommunismus die '''wirkliche Bewegung,''' welche den jetzigen Zustand '''aufhebt'''.''<ref>http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me03/me03_017.htm#I_I</ref> | ''Der Kommunismus ist für uns nicht ein Zustand, der hergestellt werden soll, ein Ideal, wonach die Wirklichkeit sich zu richten haben [wird]. Wir nennen Kommunismus die '''wirkliche Bewegung,''' welche den jetzigen Zustand '''aufhebt'''.''<ref>http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me03/me03_017.htm#I_I</ref> | ||
The principal word here is ''sublate'', a translation of ''aufheben'', a technical philosophical term used by Hegel which basically means to cancel and preserve simultaneously. This is usually mistranslated and it has led many to think Marx meant communism is the movement which "abolishes" the present state of things and thus does away with tradition entirely, when in reality he meant communism would abolish ''capitalism''<ref>It shouldn't need to be said but of course abolition itself is a process; he did not mean we would press the destroy capitalism button one day and wake up living under socialism.</ref> but ''preserve'' tradition, adapting modernity to tradition and tradition to modernity, creating something new entirely. From this perspective, communism is the highest realization of all human tradition, and shows the infantile nature of both RETVRN-type "traditionalists" and fake "communists" who pose themselves against tradition. | The principal word here is ''sublate'', a translation of ''aufheben'', a technical philosophical term used by Hegel which basically means to cancel and preserve simultaneously. This is usually mistranslated and it has led many to think Marx meant communism is the movement which "abolishes" the present state of things and thus does away with tradition entirely, when in reality he meant communism would abolish ''capitalism''<ref>It shouldn't need to be said but of course abolition itself is a process; he did not mean we would press the destroy capitalism button one day and wake up living under socialism.</ref> but ''preserve'' tradition, adapting modernity to tradition and tradition to modernity, creating something new entirely. From this perspective, communism is the highest realization of all human tradition, and shows the infantile nature of both RETVRN-type "traditionalists" and fake "communists" who pose themselves against tradition. Most historical communists and most modern communists outside of the West, such as the Chinese, understood / understand this, which is why in socialist countries we always see a rejuvenation of the cultures of the various nationalities that live in these countries, and socialism adapted to their particular historical reality and traditions. | ||
Modernity, particularly in its later stages, comes in the form of the mode of production that is [[Capitalism]]. The human being, the worker, was atomized as just another cog in the machine, all of the cultural, social, and traditional, aspects of human life were abstracted into nothing, and world stopped making any sense to humanity. Society was not ruled based on cultural, social, traditional characteristics of each society, which had been the case for thousands of years. Instead society as a whole began to be ruled by the [[exchange-value|dollar]], the need to make [[profit]] triumphing over all others at this time. Communism began as a mass movement that would return to the traditions, cultural, and social, aspects of humanity, without compromising the material progress made by modernity. In other words, [[production]] would no longer be incompatible with the majority of people's lives. This movement would lead to some kind of mode of production in which we would work for humanity: Socialism. | Modernity, particularly in its later stages, comes in the form of the mode of production that is [[Capitalism]]. The human being, the worker, was atomized as just another cog in the machine, all of the cultural, social, and traditional, aspects of human life were abstracted into nothing, and world stopped making any sense to humanity. Society was not ruled based on cultural, social, traditional characteristics of each society, which had been the case for thousands of years. Instead society as a whole began to be ruled by the [[exchange-value|dollar]], the need to make [[profit]] triumphing over all others at this time. Communism began as a mass movement that would return to the traditions, cultural, and social, aspects of humanity, without compromising the material progress made by modernity. In other words, [[production]] would no longer be incompatible with the majority of people's lives. This movement would lead to some kind of mode of production in which we would work for humanity: Socialism. | ||