Marx’s manifesto is famous for summing up his theory of Communism with a single sentence: “Abolition of private property.” But this was hardly the only thing the philosopher believed must be abolished from bourgeois society in the proletariat's march to utopia. In his manifesto, Marx highlighted five additional ideas and institutions for eradication.
Nearly all of these are instances of Marx saying capital makes the thing impossible or that communists want a different version of it. The writer of this article either can't read or he's deliberately misrepresenting Marx in the worst way possible, because the quotes he gives directly contradict what he's saying.
Like here, he says Marx wants to abolish individuality: “In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality,” he wrote. “And the abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of individuality and freedom! And rightly so. The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.”
Marx is clearly saying that capitalism already destroyed individuality and that destroying that condition is falsely called "abolition of individuality" by the bourgeoisie. This is the most :wonder-who-thats-for: thing I've ever read
Nearly all of these are instances of Marx saying capital makes the thing impossible or that communists want a different version of it. The writer of this article either can't read or he's deliberately misrepresenting Marx in the worst way possible, because the quotes he gives directly contradict what he's saying.
Like here, he says Marx wants to abolish individuality: “In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality,” he wrote. “And the abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of individuality and freedom! And rightly so. The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.”
Marx is clearly saying that capitalism already destroyed individuality and that destroying that condition is falsely called "abolition of individuality" by the bourgeoisie. This is the most :wonder-who-thats-for: thing I've ever read
Yeah, was about to comment on that. You have to be trying to misread it that badly.
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I think he's just lazy and just pulled up the Manifesto on marxists.org and did some CTRL+F