Marxism & Christianity by Alasdair MacIntyre

Author:Alasdair MacIntyre [MacIntyre, Alasdair]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Marxism, Philosophy
ISBN: 9780715626733
Publisher: Intl Pub Marketing
Published: 1995-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

The Manifesto begins with outlining the history of society. It contains a fine recognition of the achievements of the bourgeoisie as well as a denunciation of the evils, of bourgeois society. The "bour-

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geoisie . . . has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts and Gothic cathedrals. . . . The bourgeoisie . . . draws all nations . . . into civilization. It has created enormous cities . . . and thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. . . . The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarcely one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together." But this panegyric is only a preparation for the proclamation that the final outcome of the history of the bourgeoisie must be its downfall. "The essential condition for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the accumulation of wealth in the hands of private individuals, the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage labor. Wage labor rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the laborers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of modern industry, therefore, cuts from under the feet of the bourgeoisie the very foundation on which it produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore

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