Critique of the Gotha Programme on Superphysics

Labor is the source of wealth and all culture

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“Labor is the source of wealth and all culture, and since useful labor is possible only in society and through society, the proceeds of labor belong undiminished with equal right to all members of society.”

First part of the paragraph: “Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.”

Labor is the source of wealth and all culture

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“The emancipation of labor must be the work of the working class, relative to which all other classes are only one reactionary mass.”

The first strophe is taken from the introductory words of the Rules of the International, but “improved”. There it is said: “The emancipation of the working class must be the act of the workers themselves”; here, on the contrary, the “working class” has to emancipate – what? “Labor.” Let him understand who can.

A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

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“Starting from these basic principles, the German workers’ party strives by all legal means for the free state—and—socialist society: that abolition of the wage system together with the iron law of wages – and—exploitation in every form; the elimination of all social and political inequality.”

A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

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“The German Workers’ party, in order to pave the way to the solution of the social question, demands the establishment of producers’ co-operative societies with state aid under the democratic control of the toiling people. The producers’ co-operative societies are to be called into being for industry and agriculture on such a scale that the socialist organization of the total labor will arise from them.”

Labor is the source of wealth and all culture

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First of all, according to II, the German Workers’ party strives for “the free state”.

Free state — what is this?

It is by no means the aim of the workers, who have got rid of the narrow mentality of humble subjects, to set the state free. In the German Empire, the “state” is almost as “free” as in Russia. Freedom consists in converting the state from an organ superimposed upon society into one completely subordinate to it; and today, too, the forms of state are more free or less free to the extent that they restrict the “freedom of the state”.