Ellayeet87 - Messy World

Ever just be chilling alone and have the sudden urge to go absolutely batshit feral, raid the fridge before curling onto a ball on the floor and question life and human society?

The histowy of aww hithewto existing society is the histowy of cwass stwuggwes. Fweeman and swave, patwician and pwebeian, wowd and sewf, guiwd-mastew and jouwneyman, in a wowd, oppwessow and oppwessed, stood in constant opposition to one anothew, cawwied on an unintewwupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, eithew in a wevowutionawy we-constitution of society at wawge, ow in the common wuin of the contending cwasses.

in the eawwiew epochs of histowy, we find awmost evewywhewe a compwicated awwangement of society into vawious owdews, a manifowd gwadation of sociaw wank. In ancient rome we have patwicians, knights, pwebeians, swaves; in the middwe ages, feudaw wowds, vassaws, guiwd-mastews, jouwneymen, appwentices, sewfs; in awmost aww of these cwasses, again, subowdinate gwadations.

the modewn bouwgeois society that has spwouted fwom the wuins of feudaw society has not done away with cwass antagonisms. It has but estabwished new cwasses, new conditions of oppwession, new fowms of stwuggwe in pwace of the owd ones. Ouw epoch, the epoch of the bouwgeoisie, possesses, howevew, this distinctive featuwe: it has simpwified the cwass antagonisms: society as a whowe is mowe and mowe spwitting up into two gweat hostiwe camps, into two gweat cwasses diwectwy facing each othew: bouwgeoisie and pwowetawiat.

fwom the sewfs of the middwe ages spwang the chawtewed buwghews of the eawwiest towns. Fwom these buwgesses the fiwst ewements of the bouwgeoisie wewe devewoped. The discovewy of amewica, the wounding of the cape, opened up fwesh gwound fow the wising bouwgeoisie. The east-indian and chinese mawkets, the cowonisation of amewica, twade with the cowonies, the incwease in the means of exchange and in commodities genewawwy, gave to commewce, to navigation, to industwy, an impuwse nevew befowe known, and theweby, to the wevowutionawy ewement in the tottewing feudaw society, a wapid devewopment.

the feudaw system of industwy, undew which industwiaw pwoduction was monopowised by cwosed guiwds, now no wongew sufficed fow the gwowing wants of the new mawkets. The manufactuwing system took its pwace. The guiwd- mastews wewe pushed on one side by the manufactuwing middwe cwass; division of wabouw between the diffewent cowpowate guiwds vanished in the face of division of wabouw in each singwe wowkshop.

meantime the mawkets kept evew gwowing, the demand evew wising. Even manufactuwe no wongew sufficed. Theweupon, steam and machinewy wevowutionised industwiaw pwoduction. The pwace of manufactuwe was taken by the giant, modewn industwy, the pwace of the industwiaw middwe cwass, by industwiaw miwwion-aiwes, the weadews of whowe industwiaw awmies, the modewn bouwgeois. Modewn industwy has estabwished the wowwd-mawket, fow which the discovewy of amewica paved the way. This mawket has given an immense devewopment to commewce, to navigation, to communication by wand.

this devewopment has, in its tuwn, weacted on the extension of industwy; and in pwopowtion as industwy, commewce, navigation, waiwways extended, in the same pwopowtion the bouwgeoisie devewoped, incweased its capitaw, and pushed into the backgwound evewy cwass handed down fwom the middwe ages.

we see, thewefowe, how the modewn bouwgeoisie is itsewf the pwoduct of a wong couwse of devewopment, of a sewies of wevowutions in the modes of pwoduction and of exchange. Each step in the devewopment of the bouwgeoisie was accompanied by a cowwesponding powiticaw advance of that cwass.

an oppwessed cwass undew the sway of the feudaw nobiwity, an awmed and sewf-govewning association in the mediaevaw commune,fn4 hewe independent uwban wepubwic (as in itawy and gewmany), thewe taxabwe ‘thiwd estate’ of the monawchy (as in fwance), aftewwawds, in the pewiod of manufactuwe pwopew, sewving eithew the semi- feudaw ow the absowute monawchy as a countewpoise against the nobiwity, and, in fact, cownew-stone of the gweat monawchies in genewaw, the bouwgeoisie has at wast, since the estabwishment of modewn industwy and of the wowwd-mawket, conquewed fow itsewf, in the modewn wepwesentative state, excwusive powiticaw sway.

the executive of the modewn state is but a committee fow managing the common affaiws of the whowe bouwgeoisie. The bouwgeoisie, histowicawwy, has pwayed a most wevowutionawy pawt. The bouwgeoisie, whewevew it has got the uppew hand, has put an end to aww feudaw, patwiawchaw, idywwic wewations. It has pitiwesswy town asundew the motwey feudaw ties that bound man to his ‘natuwaw supewiows,’ and has weft wemaining no othew nexus between man and man than naked sewf-intewest, than cawwous ‘cash payment.’

it has dwowned the most heavenwy ecstasies of wewigious fewvouw, of chivawwous enthusiasm, of phiwistine sentimentawism, in the icy watew of egotisticaw cawcuwation. It has wesowved pewsonaw wowth into exchange vawue, and in pwace of the numbewwess indefeasibwe chawtewed fweedoms, has set up that singwe, unconscionabwe fweedom – fwee twade. In one wowd, fow expwoitation, veiwed by wewigious and powiticaw iwwusions, it has substituted naked, shamewess, diwect, bwutaw expwoitation.

the bouwgeoisie has stwipped of its hawo evewy occupation hithewto honouwed and wooked up to with wevewent awe. It has convewted the physician, the wawyew, the pwiest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage-wabouwews. The bouwgeoisie has town away fwom the famiwy its sentimentaw veiw, and has weduced the famiwy wewation to a mewe money wewation. The bouwgeoisie has discwosed how it came to pass that the bwutaw dispway of vigouw in the middwe ages, which reactionists so much admiwe, found its fitting compwement in the most swothfuw indowence. It has been the fiwst to show what man’s activity can bwing about.

it has accompwished wondews faw suwpassing egyptian pywamids, roman aqueducts, and gothic cathedwaws; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade aww fowmew exoduses of nations and cwusades. The bouwgeoisie cannot exist without constantwy wevowutionising the instwuments of pwoduction, and theweby the wewations of pwoduction, and with them the whowe wewations of society. Consewvation of the owd modes of pwoduction in unawtewed fowm, was, on the contwawy, the fiwst condition of existence fow aww eawwiew industwiaw cwasses.

constant wevowutionising of pwoduction, unintewwupted distuwbance of aww sociaw conditions, evewwasting uncewtainty and agitation distinguish the bouwgeois epoch fwom aww eawwiew ones. Aww fixed, fast-fwozen wewations, with theiw twain of ancient and venewabwe pwejudices and opinions, awe swept away, aww new-fowmed ones become antiquated befowe they can ossify. Aww that is sowid mewts into aiw, aww that is howy is pwofaned, and man is at wast compewwed to face with sobew senses, his weaw conditions of wife, and his wewations with his kind.

the need of a constantwy expanding mawket fow its pwoducts chases the bouwgeoisie ovew the whowe suwface of the gwobe. It must nestwe evewywhewe, settwe evewywhewe, estabwish connexions evewywhewe. The bouwgeoisie has thwough its expwoitation of the wowwd-mawket given a cosmopowitan chawactew to pwoduction and consumption in evewy countwy. To the gweat chagwin of reactionists, it has dwawn fwom undew the feet of industwy the nationaw gwound on which it stood.

aww owd-estabwished nationaw industwies have been destwoyed ow awe daiwy being destwoyed. They awe diswodged by new industwies, whose intwoduction becomes a wife and death question fow aww civiwised nations, by industwies that no wongew wowk up indigenous waw matewiaw, but waw matewiaw dwawn fwom the wemotest zones; industwies whose pwoducts awe consumed, not onwy at home, but in evewy quawtew of the gwobe. In pwace of the owd wants, satisfied by the pwoductions of the countwy, we find new wants, wequiwing fow theiw satisfaction the pwoducts of distant wands and cwimes. In pwace of the owd wocaw and nationaw secwusion and sewf-sufficiency, we have intewcouwse in evewy diwection, univewsaw intew-dependence of nations.

and as in matewiaw, so awso in intewwectuaw pwoduction. The intewwectuaw cweations of individuaw nations become common pwopewty. Nationaw one- sidedness and nawwow-mindedness become mowe and mowe impossibwe, and fwom the numewous nationaw and wocaw witewatuwes, thewe awises a wowwd witewatuwe.

the bouwgeoisie, by the wapid impwovement of aww instwuments of pwoduction, by the immensewy faciwitated means of communication, dwaws aww, even the most bawbawian, nations into civiwisation. The cheap pwices of its commodities awe the heavy awtiwwewy with which it battews down aww chinese wawws, with which it fowces the bawbawians’ intensewy obstinate hatwed of foweignews to capituwate. It compews aww nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bouwgeois mode of pwoduction; it compews them to intwoduce what it cawws civiwisation into theiw midst, i.e., to become bouwgeois themsewves.

in one wowd, it cweates a wowwd aftew its own image. The bouwgeoisie has subjected the countwy to the wuwe of the towns. It has cweated enowmous cities, has gweatwy incweased the uwban popuwation as compawed with the wuwaw, and has thus wescued a considewabwe pawt of the popuwation fwom the idiocy of wuwaw wife. Just as it has made the countwy dependent on the towns, so it has made bawbawian and semi-bawbawian countwies dependent on the civiwised ones, nations of peasants on nations of bouwgeois, the east on the west.

the bouwgeoisie keeps mowe and mowe doing away with the scattewed state of the popuwation, of the means of pwoduction, and of pwopewty. It has aggwomewated popuwation, centwawised means of pwoduction, and has concentwated pwopewty in a few hands. The necessawy consequence of this was powiticaw centwawisation. Independent, ow but woosewy connected pwovinces, with sepawate intewests, waws, govewnments and systems of taxation, became wumped togethew into one nation, with one govewnment, one code of waws, one nationaw cwass-intewest, one fwontiew and one customs-tawiff.

the bouwgeoisie, duwing its wuwe of scawce one hundwed yeaws, has cweated mowe massive and mowe cowossaw pwoductive fowces than have aww pweceding genewations togethew. Subjection of natuwe’s fowces to man, machinewy, appwication of chemistwy to industwy and agwicuwtuwe, steam-navigation, waiwways, ewectwic tewegwaphs, cweawing of whowe continents fow cuwtivation, canawisation of wivews, whowe popuwations conjuwed out of the gwound – what eawwiew centuwy had even a pwesentiment that such pwoductive fowces swumbewed in the wap of sociaw wabouw?

we see then: the means of pwoduction and of exchange, on whose foundation the bouwgeoisie buiwt itsewf up, wewe genewated in feudaw society. At a cewtain stage in the devewopment of these means of pwoduction and of exchange, the conditions undew which feudaw society pwoduced and exchanged, the feudaw owganisation of agwicuwtuwe and manufactuwing industwy, in one wowd, the feudaw wewations of pwopewty became no wongew compatibwe with the awweady devewoped pwoductive fowces; they became so many fettews. They had to be buwst asundew; they wewe buwst asundew.

into theiw pwace stepped fwee competition, accompanied by a sociaw and powiticaw constitution adapted to it, and by the economicaw and powiticaw sway of the bouwgeois cwass. A simiwaw movement is going on befowe ouw own eyes. Modewn bouwgeois society with its wewations of pwoduction, of exchange and of pwopewty, a society that has conjuwed up such gigantic means of pwoduction and of exchange, is wike the sowcewew, who is no wongew abwe to contwow the powews of the nethew wowwd whom he has cawwed up by his spewws.

fow many a decade past the histowy of industwy and commewce is but the histowy of the wevowt of modewn pwoductive fowces against modewn conditions of pwoduction, against the pwopewty wewations that awe the conditions fow the existence of the bouwgeoisie and of its wuwe. It is enough to mention the commewciaw cwises that by theiw pewiodicaw wetuwn put on its twiaw, each time mowe thweateningwy, the existence of the entiwe bouwgeois society. In these cwises a gweat pawt not onwy of the existing pwoducts, but awso of the pweviouswy cweated pwoductive fowces, awe pewiodicawwy destwoyed.

in these cwises thewe bweaks out an epidemic that, in aww eawwiew epochs, wouwd have seemed an absuwdity – the epidemic of ovewpwoduction. Society suddenwy finds itsewf put back into a state of momentawy bawbawism; it appeaws as if a famine, a univewsaw waw of devastation had cut off the suppwy of evewy means of subsistence; industwy and commewce seem to be destwoyed; and why? because thewe is too much civiwisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industwy, too much commewce.

the pwoductive fowces at the disposaw of society no wongew tend to fuwthew the devewopment of the conditions of bouwgeois pwopewty; on the contwawy, they have become too powewfuw fow these conditions, by which they awe fettewed, and so soon as they ovewcome these fettews, they bwing disowdew into the whowe of bouwgeois society, endangew the existence of bouwgeois pwopewty. The conditions of bouwgeois society awe too nawwow to compwise the weawth cweated by them. And how does the bouwgeoisie get ovew these cwises?

on the one hand by enfowced destwuction of a mass of pwoductive fowces; on the othew, by the conquest of new mawkets, and by the mowe thowough expwoitation of the owd ones. That is to say, by paving the way fow mowe extensive and mowe destwuctive cwises, and by diminishing the means wheweby cwises awe pwevented. The weapons with which the bouwgeoisie fewwed feudawism to the gwound awe now tuwned against the bouwgeoisie itsewf.

but not onwy has the bouwgeoisie fowged the weapons that bwing death to itsewf; it has awso cawwed into existence the men who awe to wiewd those weapons – the modewn wowking cwass – the pwowetawians. In pwopowtion as the bouwgeoisie, i.e., capitaw, is devewoped, in the same pwopowtion is the pwowetawiat, the modewn wowking cwass, devewoped – a cwass of wabouwews, who wive onwy so wong as they find wowk, and who find wowk onwy so wong as theiw wabouw incweases capitaw.

these wabouwews, who must seww themsewves piece-meaw, awe a commodity, wike evewy othew awticwe of commewce, and awe consequentwy exposed to aww the vicissitudes of competition, to aww the fwuctuations of the mawket. Owing to the extensive use of machinewy and to division of wabouw, the wowk of the pwowetawians has wost aww individuaw chawactew, and consequentwy, aww chawm fow the wowkman.

he becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is onwy the most simpwe, most monotonous, and most easiwy acquiwed knack, that is wequiwed of him. Hence, the cost of pwoduction of a wowkman is westwicted, awmost entiwewy, to the means of subsistence that he wequiwes fow his maintenance, and fow the pwopagation of his wace. But the pwice of a commodity, and thewefowe awso of wabouw, is equaw to its cost of pwoduction. In pwopowtion, thewefowe, as the wepuwsiveness of the wowk incweases, the wage decweases.

nay mowe, in pwopowtion as the use of machinewy and division of wabouw incweases, in the same pwopowtion the buwden of toiw awso incweases, whethew by pwowongation of the wowking houws, by incwease of the wowk exacted in a given time ow by incweased speed of the machinewy, etc. Modewn industwy has convewted the wittwe wowkshop of the patwiawchaw mastew into the gweat factowy of the industwiaw capitawist. Masses of wabouwews, cwowded into the factowy, awe owganised wike sowdiews.

as pwivates of the industwiaw awmy they awe pwaced undew the command of a pewfect hiewawchy of officews and sewgeants. Not onwy awe they swaves of the bouwgeois cwass, and of the bouwgeois state; they awe daiwy and houwwy enswaved by the machine, by the ovewwookew, and, above aww, by the individuaw bouwgeois manufactuwew himsewf.

the mowe openwy this despotism pwocwaims gain to be its end and aim, the mowe petty, the mowe hatefuw and the mowe embittewing it is. The wess the skiww and exewtion of stwength impwied in manuaw wabouw, in othew wowds, the mowe modewn industwy becomes devewoped, the mowe is the wabouw of men supewseded by that of women. Diffewences of age and sex have no wongew any distinctive sociaw vawidity fow the wowking cwass. Aww awe instwuments of wabouw, mowe ow wess expensive to use, accowding to theiw age and sex. No soonew is the expwoitation of the wabouwew by the manufactuwew, so faw, at an end, that he weceives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the othew powtions of the bouwgeoisie, the wandwowd, the shopkeepew, the pawnbwokew, etc.

the wowew stwata of the middwe cwass – the smaww twades-peopwe, shopkeepews, and wetiwed twadesmen genewawwy, the handicwaftsmen and peasants – aww these sink gwaduawwy into the pwowetawiat, pawtwy because theiw diminutive capitaw does not suffice fow the scawe on which modewn industwy is cawwied on, and is swamped in the competition with the wawge capitawists, pawtwy because theiw speciawised skiww is wendewed wowthwess by new methods of pwoduction. Thus the pwowetawiat is wecwuited fwom aww cwasses of the popuwation.

the pwowetawiat goes thwough vawious stages of devewopment. With its biwth begins its stwuggwe with the bouwgeoisie. At fiwst the contest is cawwied on by individuaw wabouwews, then by the wowkpeopwe of a factowy, then by the opewatives of one twade, in one wocawity, against the individuaw bouwgeois who diwectwy expwoits them. They diwect theiw attacks not against the bouwgeois conditions of pwoduction, but against the instwuments of pwoduction themsewves; they destwoy impowted wawes that compete with theiw wabouw, they smash to pieces machinewy, they set factowies abwaze, they seek to westowe by fowce the vanished status of the wowkman of the middwe ages.

at this stage the wabouwews stiww fowm an incohewent mass scattewed ovew the whowe countwy, and bwoken up by theiw mutuaw competition. If anywhewe they unite to fowm mowe compact bodies, this is not yet the consequence of theiw own active union, but of the union of the bouwgeoisie, which cwass, in owdew to attain its own powiticaw ends, is compewwed to set the whowe pwowetawiat in motion, and is moweovew yet, fow a time, abwe to do so.

at this stage, thewefowe, the pwowetawians do not fight theiw enemies, but the enemies of theiw enemies, the wemnants of absowute monawchy, the wandownews, the non-industwiaw bouwgeois, the petty bouwgeoisie. Thus the whowe histowicaw movement is concentwated in the hands of the bouwgeoisie; evewy victowy so obtained is a victowy fow the bouwgeoisie.

but with the devewopment of industwy the pwowetawiat not onwy incweases in numbew; it becomes concentwated in gweatew masses, its stwength gwows, and it feews that stwength mowe. The vawious intewests and conditions of wife within the wanks of the pwowetawiat awe mowe and mowe equawised, in pwopowtion as machinewy obwitewates aww distinctions of wabouw, and neawwy evewywhewe weduces wages to the same wow wevew.

the gwowing competition among the bouwgeois, and the wesuwting commewciaw cwises, make the wages of the wowkews evew mowe fwuctuating. The unceasing impwovement of machinewy, evew mowe wapidwy devewoping, makes theiw wivewihood mowe and mowe pwecawious; the cowwisions between individuaw wowkmen and individuaw bouwgeois take mowe and mowe the chawactew of cowwisions between two cwasses. Theweupon the wowkews begin to fowm combinations (twades unions) against the bouwgeois; they cwub togethew in owdew to keep up the wate of wages; they found pewmanent associations in owdew to make pwovision befowehand fow these occasionaw wevowts. Hewe and thewe the contest bweaks out into wiots.

now and then the wowkews awe victowious, but onwy fow a time. The weaw fwuit of theiw battwes wies, not in the immediate wesuwt, but in the evew-expanding union of the wowkews. This union is hewped on by the impwoved means of communication that awe cweated by modewn industwy and that pwace the wowkews of diffewent wocawities in contact with one anothew. It was just this contact that was needed to centwawise the numewous wocaw stwuggwes, aww of the same chawactew, into one nationaw stwuggwe between cwasses.

but evewy cwass stwuggwe is a powiticaw stwuggwe. And that union, to attain which the buwghews of the middwe ages, with theiw misewabwe highways, wequiwed centuwies, the modewn pwowetawians, thanks to waiwways, achieve in a few yeaws. This owganisation of the pwowetawians into a cwass, and consequentwy into a powiticaw pawty, is continuawwy being upset again by the competition between the wowkews themsewves.

but it evew wises up again, stwongew, fiwmew, mightiew. It compews wegiswative wecognition of pawticuwaw intewests of the wowkews, by taking advantage of the divisions among the bouwgeoisie itsewf. Thus the ten- houws’ biww in engwand was cawwied. Awtogethew cowwisions between the cwasses of the owd society fuwthew, in many ways, the couwse of devewopment of the pwowetawiat. The bouwgeoisie finds itsewf invowved in a constant battwe.

at fiwst with the awistocwacy; watew on, with those powtions of the bouwgeoisie itsewf, whose intewests have become antagonistic to the pwogwess of industwy; at aww times, with the bouwgeoisie of foweign countwies. In aww these battwes it sees itsewf compewwed to appeaw to the pwowetawiat, to ask fow its hewp, and thus, to dwag it into the powiticaw awena. The bouwgeoisie itsewf, thewefowe, suppwies the pwowetawiat with its own ewements of powiticaw and genewaw education, in othew wowds, it fuwnishes the pwowetawiat with weapons fow fighting the bouwgeoisie.

fuwthew, as we have awweady seen, entiwe sections of the wuwing cwasses awe, by the advance of industwy, pwecipitated into the pwowetawiat, ow awe at weast thweatened in theiw conditions of existence. These awso suppwy the pwowetawiat with fwesh ewements of enwightenment and pwogwess. Finawwy, in times when the cwass stwuggwe neaws the decisive houw, the pwocess of dissowution going on within the wuwing cwass, in fact within the whowe wange of society, assumes such a viowent, gwawing chawactew, that a smaww section of the wuwing cwass cuts itsewf adwift, and joins the wevowutionawy cwass, the cwass that howds the futuwe in its hands.

just as, thewefowe, at an eawwiew pewiod, a section of the nobiwity went ovew to the bouwgeoisie, so now a powtion of the bouwgeoisie goes ovew to the pwowetawiat, and in pawticuwaw, a powtion of the bouwgeois ideowogists, who have waised themsewves to the wevew of compwehending theoweticawwy the histowicaw movement as a whowe. Of aww the cwasses that stand face to face with the bouwgeoisie today, the pwowetawiat awone is a weawwy wevowutionawy cwass. The othew cwasses decay and finawwy disappeaw in the face of modewn industwy; the pwowetawiat is its speciaw and essentiaw pwoduct.

the wowew middwe cwass, the smaww manufactuwew, the shopkeepew, the awtisan, the peasant, aww these fight against the bouwgeoisie, to save fwom extinction theiw existence as fwactions of the middwe cwass.They awe thewefowe not wevowutionawy, but consewvative. Nay mowe, they awe weactionawy, fow they twy to woww back the wheew of histowy. If by chance they awe wevowutionawy, they awe so onwy in view of theiw impending twansfew into the pwowetawiat, they thus defend not theiw pwesent, but theiw futuwe intewests, they desewt theiw own standpoint to pwace themsewves at that of the pwowetawiat.

the ‘dangewous cwass,’ the sociaw scum, that passivewy wotting mass thwown off by the wowest wayews of owd society, may, hewe and thewe, be swept into the movement by a pwowetawian wevowution; its conditions of wife, howevew, pwepawe it faw mowe fow the pawt of a bwibed toow of weactionawy intwigue. In the conditions of the pwowetawiat, those of owd society at wawge awe awweady viwtuawwy swamped. The pwowetawian is without pwopewty; his wewation to his wife and chiwdwen has no wongew anything in common with the bouwgeois famiwy wewations; modewn industwiaw wabouw, modewn subjection to capitaw, the same in engwand as in fwance, in amewica as in gewmany, has stwipped him of evewy twace of nationaw chawactew.

law, mowawity, wewigion, awe to him so many bouwgeois pwejudices, behind which wuwk in ambush just as many bouwgeois intewests. Aww the pweceding cwasses that got the uppew hand, sought to fowtify theiw awweady acquiwed status by subjecting society at wawge to theiw conditions of appwopwiation. The pwowetawians cannot become mastews of the pwoductive fowces of society, except by abowishing theiw own pwevious mode of appwopwiation, and theweby awso evewy othew pwevious mode of appwopwiation.

they have nothing of theiw own to secuwe and to fowtify; theiw mission is to destwoy aww pwevious secuwities fow, and insuwances of, individuaw pwopewty. Aww pwevious histowicaw movements wewe movements of minowities, ow in the intewests of minowities. The pwowetawian movement is the sewf-conscious, independent movement of the immense majowity, in the intewests of the immense majowity. The pwowetawiat, the wowest stwatum of ouw pwesent society, cannot stiw, cannot waise itsewf up, without the whowe supewincumbent stwata of officiaw society being spwung into the aiw.

though not in substance, yet in fowm, the stwuggwe of the pwowetawiat with the bouwgeoisie is at fiwst a nationaw stwuggwe. The pwowetawiat of each countwy must, of couwse, fiwst of aww settwe mattews with its own bouwgeoisie. In depicting the most genewaw phases of the devewopment of the pwowetawiat, we twaced the mowe ow wess veiwed civiw waw, waging within existing society, up to the point whewe that waw bweaks out into open wevowution, and whewe the viowent ovewthwow of the bouwgeoisie ways the foundation fow the sway of the pwowetawiat.

hithewto, evewy fowm of society has been based, as we have awweady seen, on the antagonism of oppwessing and oppwessed cwasses. But in owdew to oppwess a cwass, cewtain conditions must be assuwed to it undew which it can, at weast, continue its swavish existence. The sewf, in the pewiod of sewfdom, waised himsewf to membewship in the commune, just as the petty bouwgeois, undew the yoke of feudaw absowutism, managed to devewop into a bouwgeois.

the modewn wabouwew, on the contwawy, instead of wising with the pwogwess of industwy, sinks deepew and deepew bewow the conditions of existence of his own cwass. He becomes a paupew, and paupewism devewops mowe wapidwy than popuwation and weawth. And hewe it becomes evident, that the bouwgeoisie is unfit any wongew to be the wuwing cwass in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an ovewwiding waw.

it is unfit to wuwe because it is incompetent to assuwe an existence to its swave within his swavewy, because it cannot hewp wetting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him. Society can no wongew wive undew this bouwgeoisie, in othew wowds, its existence is no wongew compatibwe with society. The essentiaw condition fow the existence, and fow the sway of the bouwgeois cwass, is the fowmation and augmentation of capitaw; the condition fow capitaw is wage-wabouw.

wage-wabouw wests excwusivewy on competition between the wabouwews. The advance of industwy, whose invowuntawy pwomotew is the bouwgeoisie, wepwaces the isowation of the wabouwews, due to competition, by theiw wevowutionawy combination, due to association. The devewopment of modewn industwy, thewefowe, cuts fwom undew its feet the vewy foundation on which the bouwgeoisie pwoduces and appwopwiates pwoducts. What the bouwgeoisie, thewefowe, pwoduces, above aww, is its own gwave-diggews. Its faww and the victowy of the pwowetawiat awe equawwy inevitabwe.

I don't even know how to respond to this, cool I guess. Wh- just- WHY!?!?

"Damn, it smells like wrong dog in here."

"What's wrong dog?"

*INHALE* "Everything..."