The Communist Party is back!

Unions aren't doing so well, so what makes you think Socialism is?

 

Yawn, your point about unions is well taken. However, the distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man’s own labour, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence.

Hard-won, self-acquired, self-earned property! Do you mean the property of petty artisan and of the small peasant, a form of property that preceded the bourgeois form? There is no need to abolish that; the development of industry has to a great extent already destroyed it, and is still destroying it daily.

Or do you mean the modern bourgeois private property?

The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man’s own labour, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence.

Hard-won, self-acquired, self-earned property! Do you mean the property of petty artisan and of the small peasant, a form of property that preceded the bourgeois form? There is no need to abolish that; the development of industry has to a great extent already destroyed it, and is still destroying it daily.

Yawn, I await your answer.

 

And I thought a humorous t-shirt was just a humorous t-shirt.

 

Damn! I just dropped the Grundrisse!

 

Is there any way we can get a Fantasy Communism League going.

Marx would go high, but you have to like Engels as a sleeper in the late second round!

 

I got dibs on Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and Feliks Dzerzhinsky.

 

I am the Walrus.

 

Bakunin for me!

 

Marx is clearly the Albert Pujols of our draft.

I see Stalin as a David Ortiz type. Huge numbers, but little versatility.

 

I'll take Rosa Luxembourg. A lot cuter than Emma Goldman...not that that's saying much.

 

Can you draft Julius and Ethel Rosenberg together, or will they cost you two picks?

 

I'm going to pick up Allen Ginsburg for my pitching staff.