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As you accept there is exploitation,communist revolutionaries wanted to end it quickly as majority of people are suffering . Man (individual/total) is a product of history and creates history as marx put it.Every thing is labour otherwise why would some suffer more while others less?if you accept darwin's theory then man is product of nature.Accumulated knowledge (dead labour) belongs to society as a whole , intergenerational equity before the living people is solved and future creators create their devices knowing that their devices are product of whole society.(patents are also for some time in USA-70 Yrs!)USSR did well in some scientific disciplines ,health,education of normal people as socialist society.They wanted to create a new soviet man.As marx said communist society is only after state whithers away.However the intermediate socialist stage is what communist revolutionaries were trying to achieve!.Also USSR or other socialist societies happened their living standards were also good .Madam, do you USA is going to be socialist ?

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Please keep yourself as a journalist or a philosophy student. Your writings are so hollow lacked fundamentals just like you have never studied any book just read the glossary terms in economics and finance, then present you as an expert by showing some irrelevant macro charts. Common sense and mental heuristics with your own biases is not knowledge. Trickle down has never worked anywhere in the world in long run (https://www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-from-LSE/2020/L-December/Tax-cuts-for-the-rich).... it just created enormous amount of accumulation and inequality which further generates absolute rent seeking and more speculative behavior. You seems never read a published research paper in a good journal in your life time. Please first learn and then present as your research.

Marx prescription was for that situation when he lived. But you mistakenly apply it in today's context. He never proposed it to be an universal law. Please try to read some fundamental books on economics and finance to understand the basic principles. Then you will dare not to write these low level/ irrelevant articles which will be appreciated by another set of colourblind crowd who don't know the ABC of either economics or finance or both. Using philosophical copied statements without rigorous model analysis is not economics.

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A brilliant philosophical essay. Argues that human societies and their cultural institutions (like religion, law, morality, etc.) were the outgrowths of collective economic activity.

In opposition to the metaphysical mode of thought, which viewed things in abstraction, each by itself and as though endowed with fixed properties, Hegelian dialectics considers things in their movements and changes, interrelations and interactions. Everything is in a continual process of becoming and ceasing to be, in which nothing is permanent but everything changes and is eventually superseded.

Labour, and metaphysical labour, are one and the same. Man is a victim of false consciousness. There exists no systematic exposition of dialectical materialism and philosophical views in the course of polemics. Marx was against the exploitation of labour, under Capitalism, rather than dismantling society. Material forces not only create value but also destroy value. Man is creative & more than an artifact of his history.

Not an easy read.

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Right.. Marx wanted the base to create prosperity in plenty first.

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Reading this brilliant essay,( where every sentence is a quote) is disconcerting. Semantically articulated to an admirable degree, faithful to Marx's nuances, every para is music.

Behind the impassioned rhetoric of Marx's philosophy, behind the pseudo-science of the labor theory, and behind the class analysis of human history, lies a single emotional source — resentment of those who control things, man being a product of history.

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