All 20 Uses of
abolition
in
The Communist Manifesto
- The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of Communism.†
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- The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property.†
- The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property.†
- In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.†
- And the abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of individuality and freedom!†
- And the abolition of this state of things is called by the bourgeois, abolition of individuality and freedom!†
- The abolition of bourgeois individuality, bourgeois independence, and bourgeois freedom is undoubtedly aimed at.†
- This talk about free selling and buying, and all the other "brave words" of our bourgeoisie 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 opposed to the Communistic abolition of buying and selling, of the bourgeois conditions of production, and of the bourgeoisie itself.†
- It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease, and universal laziness will overtake us.†
- But don't wrangle with us so long as you apply, to our intended abolition of bourgeois property, the standard of your bourgeois notions of freedom, culture, law, etc. Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of the conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class made into a law for all, a will, whose essential character and direction are determined by the economical conditions of existence of your class.†
- Abolition of the family!†
- For the rest, it is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of production must bring with it the abolition of the community of women springing from that system, i.e., of prostitution both public and private.†
- For the rest, it is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of production must bring with it the abolition of the community of women springing from that system, i.e., of prostitution both public and private.†
- Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.†
- Abolition of all right of inheritance.†
- Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.†
- Abolition of children's factory labour in its present form.†
- By changes in the material conditions of existence, this form of Socialism, however, by no means understands abolition of the bourgeois relations of production, an abolition that can be effected only by a revolution, but administrative reforms, based on the continued existence of these relations; reforms, therefore, that in no respect affect the relations between capital and labour, but, at the best, lessen the cost, and simplify the administrative work, of bourgeois government.†
- By changes in the material conditions of existence, this form of Socialism, however, by no means understands abolition of the bourgeois relations of production, an abolition that can be effected only by a revolution, but administrative reforms, based on the continued existence of these relations; reforms, therefore, that in no respect affect the relations between capital and labour, but, at the best, lessen the cost, and simplify the administrative work, of bourgeois government.†
- The practical measures proposed in them—such as the abolition of the distinction between town and country, of the family, of the carrying on of industries for the account of private individuals, and of the wage system, the proclamation of social harmony, the conversion of the functions of the State into a mere superintendence of production, all these proposals, point solely to the disappearance of class antagonisms which were, at that time, only just cropping up, and which, in these publications, are recognised in their earliest, indistinct and undefined forms only.†
Definition:
the act of formally ending a system, practice, or institution -- most often used to refer to the movement to end slavery when no specific system is named