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[[ | "'''We already live in socialism'''" is a phrase used by [[Infrared]] to signify that the process of achieving [[socialism]] has already begun. The phrase was first introduced in Haz's earliest YouTube streams, and later notably during a Twitch stream discussing the controversial tweet by [[Haz Al-Din|Haz]] on the matter. <blockquote>"When we pass from joint-stock companies to trusts which assume control over, and monopolize, whole industries, it is not only private production that ceases, but also planlessness." | ||
— Friedrich Engels (''Neue Zeit'', Vol. XX, 1, 1901-02, p.8) </blockquote> | |||
==Class consciousness== | ==Class consciousness== | ||
The first objective of <nowiki>''</nowiki>We already live in socialism<nowiki>''</nowiki> is a direct clash with the pre-conceived [[Social-democracy|social-democratic]] | The first objective of <nowiki>''</nowiki>We already live in socialism<nowiki>''</nowiki> is a direct clash with the pre-conceived [[Social-democracy|social-democratic]] concept of messianic socialism. Instead of socialism being regarded as a distant ideal, it can be recognized as an already immediately objective reality. The affirmation of this is inherently revolutionary, as it propels the worker to understand only his seizing of the means of production is left to start the communist movement.<blockquote>The expansive force of the means of production bursts the bonds that the capitalist mode of production had imposed upon them. Their deliverance from these bonds is the one precondition for an unbroken, constantly-accelerated development of the productive forces, and therewith for a practically unlimited increase of production itself. (...) The possibility of securing for every member of society, by means of socialized production, an existence not only fully sufficient materially, and becoming day-by-day more full, but an existence guaranteeing to all the free development and exercise of their physical and mental faculties — this possibility is now, for the first time, here, but ''it is here''. <ref name=":0">[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/soc-utop/ch03.htm Frederick Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific]</ref></blockquote> | ||
==Dialectical significance== | ==Dialectical significance== | ||
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For example, in regard to the capitalist system, Marx says that value-form is the most ''abstract'' (highest in form) and most universal (dominant) taken by the product.<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1]</ref> In the instantiations of socialism it would obviously not be the case, as the dictatorship of the proletariat has the strongest, most abstract and universal command over production. Dialectics really is the important part here; abolition is not what determines the change, it is the ''telos;'' i.e, A and not-A are contained within each other, one taking dominance over the other in each economic system because of who controls the forces of production. | For example, in regard to the capitalist system, Marx says that value-form is the most ''abstract'' (highest in form) and most universal (dominant) taken by the product.<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm Karl Marx, Capital, Volume 1]</ref> In the instantiations of socialism it would obviously not be the case, as the dictatorship of the proletariat has the strongest, most abstract and universal command over production. Dialectics really is the important part here; abolition is not what determines the change, it is the ''telos;'' i.e, A and not-A are contained within each other, one taking dominance over the other in each economic system because of who controls the forces of production. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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