SPEWS: Record # S841 requesting reconsideration and removal

[Kenny G. Riech]

made for the maintenance and reproduction of human life, and that
leaves no surplus wherewith to command the labor of others. All that we
want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation,
under which the laborer lives merely to increase capital, and is allowed
to live only in so far as the interest of the ruling class requires it.

In bourgeois society, living labor is but a means to increase
accumulated labor. In communist society, accumulated labor is but a
means to widen, to enrich, to promote the existence of the laborer.

In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in
communist society, the present dominates the past. In bourgeois society,
capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is
dependent and has no individuality.

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.

By freedom is meant, under the present bourgeois conditions of
production, free trade, free selling and buying.

But if selling and buying disappears, free selling and buying disappears
also. This talk about free selling and buying, and all the other "brave
words" of our bourgeois about freedom in general, have a meaning, if
any, only in contrast with restricted selling and buying, with the
fettered traders of the Middle Ages, but have no meaning when oppos