Capital is a product of human labour turned into a social power. The social character of labour assumes an objective character in the products themselves, the abstract relationship between commodities and human beings.
The social relationship between capital and labour translates itself into a class conflict – the class struggle. The increase in capital presupposes an increase in private luxury and wealth that any increase in wages cannot compensate.
Capitalism has resolved human sympathy into exchange value and reduced social relations into a mere monetary relation. Capitalism is the last antagonistic form of social production and the disparities between labour and capital create conditions for the solution of this antagonism.
The working class cannot become the masters of the social forces of production unless they have abolished the previous mode of appropriation, wage slavery. We may infer that class consciousness is the product of man’s political consciousness. Socialism is the intensification of man’s political consciousness within the political and social antagonism between the state and civil society.
We advocate international working class solidarity.
Kephas Mulenga, Kitwe, Zambia
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