The Communist Manifesto
THE PRODUCTION OF TOO MANY USEFUL THINGS RESULTS IN TOO MANY USELESS PEOPLE. KARL MARX
Daniel Godfrey • The Synapse Sequence
Our ruinous, dehumanising society began for Rousseau with the fact that we must work. This leads to us reflecting on our social position, and creates feelings of envy and vanity. The division of labour follows; governments grow to protect the inequality and the unnatural rights of property. And it would be up to human…
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Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
The last 1,000 years can be roughly split into two 500-year chunks: feudalism & capitalism. Feudal lords controlled all of the land, farms, buildings and capital. This was passed down inside families and never distributed to the workers. There was no way for anyone to create new forms of capital because they could not get access to any in the first... See more
Ric Burton • Community Capitalism
Dans les Temps modernes, explique ensuite le Manifeste, « de plus en plus, la société se divise en deux grands camps ennemis, en deux grandes classes qui s’affrontent directement : la bourgeoisie et le prolétariat(2) ». Leur lutte s’achèvera par la victoire du prolétariat, laquelle marquera la fin de l’histoire et l’instauration du paradis communis
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