Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have… — Karl Marx
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
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It is in fact not the consciousness dominating life but the very life dominating consciousness.
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.
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