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'''Communism''' is the real movement to achieve dignity for the working class in a world of [[alienation]]. As [[Friedrich Engels]] said in his [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm Principles of Communism] "Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the [[proletariat]].". It emerged out of the social question, which occurred during the final stages of the process of [[Modernity]], in the form of 19th century Anglo Saxon capitalism. | '''Communism''' is the real movement to achieve dignity for the working class in a world of [[alienation]]. As [[Friedrich Engels]] said in his [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm Principles of Communism] "Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the [[proletariat]].". It emerged out of the social question, which occurred during the final stages of the process of [[Modernity]], in the form of 19th century Anglo Saxon capitalism. | ||
Communism is related to [[Socialism]], the difference between the two being that Communism is the movement, | Communism is related to [[Socialism]], the difference between the two being that Communism is the movement, while Socialism is the [[mode of production]]. | ||
Marx described communism in this way: | Marx described communism in this way: | ||
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Pseudo-Marxists claim that talking of a "return" is fascist talk, but they clearly either haven't read Marx or didn't understand him, since Marx himself talks of communism as: <blockquote>''Communism'' as the ''positive'' transcendence of ''private property'' as ''human self-estrangement,'' and therefore as the real ''appropriation'' of the ''human'' essence by and for man; '''communism therefore as the complete return of man to himself as a ''social'' (i.e., human) being''' – a return accomplished consciously and '''embracing the entire wealth of previous development'''.<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm</ref> </blockquote>That is, embracing the entire history of cultural and civilizational development, i.e. tradition, not just developments material and cultural from the capitalist epoch, although these too are of course included. | Pseudo-Marxists claim that talking of a "return" is fascist talk, but they clearly either haven't read Marx or didn't understand him, since Marx himself talks of communism as: <blockquote>''Communism'' as the ''positive'' transcendence of ''private property'' as ''human self-estrangement,'' and therefore as the real ''appropriation'' of the ''human'' essence by and for man; '''communism therefore as the complete return of man to himself as a ''social'' (i.e., human) being''' – a return accomplished consciously and '''embracing the entire wealth of previous development'''.<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/comm.htm</ref> </blockquote>That is, embracing the entire history of cultural and civilizational development, i.e. tradition, not just developments material and cultural from the capitalist epoch, although these too are of course included. | ||
The original Communist movements at this time had no social science or in-depth analysis of material conditions, but were based on [[idealism]], "If I want something It will happen" the idealist says, despite the fact that real, material, or concrete realities would probably not be able to fit what you "want" | The original Communist movements at this time had no social science or in-depth analysis of material conditions, but were based on [[idealism]], "If I want something It will happen" the idealist says, despite the fact that real, material, or concrete realities would probably not be able to fit what you "want." Many of these Communist movements believed that we can somehow go from point A to point B, easily. [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] disagreed. They believed that we can't simply go from point A to point B, we can't go from one mode of production to another, simply based on [[will]]. They believed that there were (and are) real material forces and contradictions within this world that allow Capitalism to exist the way it does, that leads to it's demise, and to the awakening of a new mode of productions, not ideas, or metaphysics. The science in question, used by Marx and Engels, that allowed them to make such a claim was called [[Dialectical Materialism]]. This science, combined with communist or socialist politics is called [[Scientific Socialism]]. | ||
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