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The Principles of Communist System
The principles
gathered by Marxists from his ideas on which the communist system was set
up and on which the communist government is founded can be summarized in
the following points:
- There
is no god and life is material. In the view of the proletariat law, moral
values and religion are nothing more than deep-rooted bourgeois conceptions
behind which bourgeoisie interest lurk. There are as many interest as there
are concepts. The mission of the proletariat is to destroy religion and
its advocates. In his thesis on Hegel, Marx says of religion that it is
the expectoration of the oppressed creature of his feelings towards a cruel
world; it is the opium given to peoples. Elsewhere, talking about the war
between classes in France, he says that religion is the opium with which
peoples are anaesthetized to be easily robbed. Religion, he adds, was used
for spiritual subjugation as the state was used for economic exploitation.
Lenin,
his successor, says in this respect that religionist the opium given to
people to pacify them. It is, he adds, a kind of alcohol of the spirit
in which the slaves of capitalism bury their human characteristic and their
sense of a dignified human life.
- Abolition of private ownership, nationalization
of projects and establishments and the placing of the wealth of the whole
nation in the hands of the government which will be directed by the proletariat
from outside if they are not represented from within. In this context,
Engels states that the proletariat take over political power and transfer
the means of social production to public ownership in an attempt to escape
control by the bourgeoisie. By such action, they eliminate devices such
as capital and allow devices of a social character the freedom to gain
round. Social production is to be reorganized according to a set plan and
the development of production makes the existence of classes a matter of
the past. It removes the general authority of the state and chaotic social
production. The people finally control mutual cooperation and become the
masters of nature and of themselves that is, they become free.
- The putting an end to internal trade and the adoption of a ration system
which allows individuals to obtain their necessities against a card. Individuals
are not allowed to themselves engage in external trade; it is the monopoly
of the state.
After reviewing the factors which demolish capitalism Engels states that
there is no solution other than practical Precognition of the character
of the new forces of production namely, the reconciling of the means of
production, ownership and exchange and the character of the means of social
production. This goal, he continues, cannot be achieved unless the means
of production, greatly increased and controlled by man himself, are seized
in entirely.
- The
application of wages system. The theory that something has to be taken
from everybody according to his potentiality and given to others according
to their needs should not be determined according to the volume of work
an individual produces. Instead, it should be determined by the value of necessities
required by the worker. Social wealth is nothing but the sum total from
which an individual consumes whatever satisfies his requirements and not
whatever corresponds with his services and work.
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