>>59439438'When private property is concentrated in the hands of one single owner, it is only seperated from collective ownership by the existence of one single man. The inevitable result of private capitalism is a kind of State capitalism which will then only have to be put to the service of the community to give birth to a society where capital and labour, henceforth in-disginguishable, will produce, in one identical advance towards progress, both justice and abundance.
It is in considertation of this happy outcome that Marx has always extolled the revolutionary role played, un-conciously it is true, by the bourgeiosie. He spoke of the 'historic rights' of capitalism, which he called a source both of progress and misery.
The historic mission and the justification of capitalism are, in his eyes, the prepare the ideal conditions for a superior mode of prouction.
This mode of production is not, in itself, revolutionary; it will only be the crowning point of the revolution. Only the fundemental principles of bourgeios production are revolutionary'.
'When Marx affirms that humanity only sets itself problems that it can solve, he is simultaneously demonstrating that the germ of the solution of the revolutionary problem is to be found, in principle, in the capitalist system itself.
THEREFORE he recommends tolerating the bourgeios State, and even helping to build it, rather than returning to a less industrialised form of production'.
- L'Homme révolté
