42 definitions
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Critique of the Gotha Program
32 concepts · 42 definitions
- labor5
- right3
- state3
- programme2
- wage labor2
- child labor1
- class struggle1
- communism1
- communist society1
- cooperative1
- democracy1
- democratic republic1
- dictatorship of the proletariat1
- distribution1
- distributive justice1
- equal rights1
- freedom1
- freedom of thought1
- Gotha Programme1
- higher education1
- iron law of wages1
- landed property1
- prison labor1
- proletariat1
- Prussia1
- public education1
- republic1
- slavery1
- social question1
- society1
- tax1
- unification1
Labor (n.) becomes, in the higher phase of communism, not only a means of life but life's prime want.
Labor (n.) as it becomes social follows the law of all history so far, that the more labour becomes social and a source of wealth and culture, the more poverty grows among workers and wealth and culture among non-workers.
Labor (n.) is not the source of all wealth: nature is just as much the source of use values, and labor itself is only the manifestation of a force of nature.
Labor (n.) cannot keep its 'undiminished proceeds': they shrink the moment you subtract what society needs, though what the producer loses as a private individual he regains as a member of society.
Right (n.) can never be higher than the economic structure of society and the culture it conditions.
Right (n.) is, in its content, a right of inequality, like every right — for unequal individuals (and they would not be individuals if they were not unequal) can be measured by an equal standard only from one side.
Right (n.) would have to be unequal rather than equal to avoid its defects.
The State (n.) is not brought a flea-hop nearer as the problem of the future by combining the word people with the word state a thousand times.
The State (n.) believed in, whether the belief is servile or democratic, is a belief in miracles, and both kinds are equally remote from socialism.
The State (n.) could, in Lassalle's imagination, build a new society with state loans just as well as a new railway.
A Programme (n.) counts for less than one step of real movement; every such step is more important than a dozen programmes.
A Programme (n.) sets up before the whole world landmarks by which it measures the level of a party's movement.
The Wage labor (n.) has permission to live only insofar as he works a certain time for the capitalist for nothing.
Wage labor (n.) is a system of slavery that grows more severe as the productive forces develop, whether the worker is paid better or worse.
Equal rights (n.) is an unequal right for unequal labor: it measures different people by one standard, seeing them only as workers and ignoring everything else.
Democracy (n.) can be so timid that it keeps within the limits of what is permitted by the police and not permitted by logic.
A Republic (n.) is no aim of workers: states are more or less free precisely to the extent that they restrict the 'freedom of the state'.
Child labor (n.) prohibited outright is an empty pious wish under large-scale industry — and would be reactionary, since combining productive labor with education early is a potent means of transforming society.
Class struggle (n.) is national not in substance but only in form.