Subject: AUT: Thanks Harry. Toxic logic
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 18:09:23 -0000


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hi harry
i'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for your time and effort, i know you're a busy man. however you've been at this lark a lot longer than i, so would you be so kind as to try and decipher for me what engels is going on about in the piece that follows. i'm having difficulty squaring it with the views you are putting forward.

thanking you in advance.
dan lambert
spgb s/london branch.


  III. Proletarian Revolution - Solution of the
contradictions. The proletariat seizes the public
power, and by means of this transforms the socialized
means of production, slipping from the hands of the
bourgeoisie, into public property. By this act, the
proletariat frees the means of production from the
character of capital they have thus far borne, and
gives their socialized character complete freedom to
work itself out. Socialized production upon a
predetermined plan becomes henceforth possible. The
development of production makes the existence of
different classes of society thenceforth an
anachronism. In proportion as anarchy in social
production vanishes, the political authority of the
State dies out. Man, at last the master of his own
form of social organization, becomes at the same time
the lord over Nature, his own master - free.

To accomplish this act of universal emancipation is
the historical mission of the modern proletariat. To
thoroughly comprehend the historical conditions and
this the very nature of this act, to impart to the now
oppressed proletarian class a full knowledge of the
conditions and of the meaning of the momentous act it
is called upon to accomplish, this is the task of the
theoretical expression of the proletarian movement,
scientific Socialism.

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