All 9 Uses
abolish
in
The Communist Manifesto
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- The proletarians cannot become masters of the productive forces of society, except by abolishing their own previous mode of appropriation, and thereby also every other previous mode of appropriation.†
abolishing = eliminating
- The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favour of bourgeois property.†
*abolished = eliminated
- We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man's own labour, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence.†
abolishing = eliminating
- There is no need to abolish that; the development of industry has to a great extent already destroyed it, and is still destroying it daily.†
abolish = eliminate
- We by no means intend to abolish this personal appropriation of the products of labour, an appropriation that is made for the maintenance and reproduction of human life, and that leaves no surplus wherewith to command the labour of others.†
- The Communists are further reproached with desiring to abolish countries and nationality.†
- But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.†
abolishes = eliminates
- But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.†
- If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organise itself as a class, if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class.†
abolished = eliminated
Definitions:
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(1)
(abolish) eliminate (end, or do away with)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)