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Revised in progress. Abolitionism: Abolitionism is an ideology and social movement to end inequality, oppression, all forms of slavery, exploitation and class distinction. It is the oldest and most powerful spontaneous protest against subjugation in human history. Abolitionism is the ideological content of all movements against exploitation and inequality. The first abolitionist impulse arose as a response to the overthrow of matriarchy. The establishment of a technical division of labor in society, the rise of a surplus product, the appropriation of the surplus product by a narrow layer of society, established private property relations and splinted society into economic classes. Overthrowing matriarchy and appropriation of the surplus product were the conditions for the formation of private property and classes. Thousands of years later, the abolitionist movement was the moral and ethical force behind ending the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Abolitionists of all kinds fought to end slavery through passionate appeals, lectures, printed material, public rallies and, in extreme cases such as John Brown, armed rebellions against the slave power. New World slavery was the pedestal upon which Europe’s wage system was built and justified. (Quote) The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of communism. All property relations in the past have continually been subject to historical change consequent upon the change in historical conditions. The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favor of bourgeois property. The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, which is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few. In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. (Emphasis added.) (Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 1848.) marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm (end Quote) Today abolitionism seeks to abolish the wage system, end the existence of the mega-corporate state and aid in the emancipation of the proletariat from all forms of private property. Communists are abolitionists on the side of the proletariat.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 11:18:24 +0000

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