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Marx is Back
[based on the Communist Manifesto]
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Chapter 1: "Bourgeois and Proletarians"
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Produced by IPS - Instituto de Pensamiento Socialista Karl Marx -
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Produced by TvPTS - www.tvpts.tv -
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Produced by Contraimagen Group
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- They changed my shift, I'll be working in
the afternoon tomorrow.
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- Oh, so I won't see.
- No, not tomorrow.
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- Hi, how are you doing ?
- Hi, alright, you ?
- Alright.
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- I'll see you inside.
- Yeah, I'll be right there.
- See you, take care.
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- You brought the book ?
- Yeah, I got it.
- Great.
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- But you know - just in case, don't read it inside, right ?
- Ok.
- And be careful with ...
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- ... these guys ...
- Ok.
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- I'm going in. Take care.
- See ya. Bye, see you tomorrow.
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- Hi Mom', what's up, how're you ?
- Good, good. Tell me, can you come pick me
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up to go to the doctors' then ? Or do you
have to work overtime ?
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- No, it's ok. I managed to get out early today.
- Great!
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- Yes, so I'm on my way to pick you up.
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The history of all previous and existing societies
is the history of class struggle.
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Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian,
lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman,
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in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood
in constant opposition to one another, carried
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on an uninterrupted war, sometimes hidden,
sometimes bold and unconcealed.
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The modern bourgeois society, the same one
that developed from the ruins of feudal society,
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has not abolished class antagonisms. It contented
itself with establishing new classes, new
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conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle
replacing the old ones.
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But notably, our era, the era of the bourgeoisie,
has simplified class antagonisms. Today we
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can absolutely and clearly see that society
as a whole is splitting up more and more into
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two great hostile camps, into two great classes
directly facing each other - the bourgeoisie
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and the proletariat -.
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- Isn't it true, young man ?
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The history of all hitherto existing society
is the history of class struggles. [French]
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The history of all hitherto existing society
is the history of class struggles. [German]
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The history of all hitherto existing society
is the history of class struggles. [Czech]
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The history of all hitherto existing society
is the history of class struggles. [Italian]
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The history of all hitherto existing society
is the history of class struggles. [Spanish]
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No no, listen, let's be serious. Don't give
me all that class struggle nonsense. That's
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all 19th century talk. But all that history
of abuses denounced by Marx and Engels is
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behind us now, don't you think ?
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- Tell me now, what are you reading ?
- Karl Marx
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- You're not going to turn communist, are you?
- You have to be communist to read Karl Marx?
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- Mom. Hi. How are you?
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- Good.
- How was it today ?
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- The mistress was out.
- Oh, so you were alright then. And today
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the blood tests, right ?
- Yes, blood tests...
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Capital is a collective product and it can
only be set in motion by the united action
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of many members of society, or rather, in
the last analysis, only by the united action
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of all members of society. Capital is nothing
personal, it is a social phenomena ! The essential
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condition of Capital is Labour, the labour
that each one of you provides one day after another.
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The essential condition of Capital,
it must be made clear, is Wage labour.
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Due to the increasing use of machines and
the division of labour, the worker looses
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all independence. He has already lost all
emotional relationship with the product he produces.
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He is but an accessory to the machine.
He's confined only to simple tasks, easy to
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learn. Therefore his wage needs only very
little to be paid, just the strict necessary
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for his daily subsistance, so he'll be back
in the factory the next day.
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Masses of workers overpopulating factories,
soldiers controlled by an elite of officials
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and sub-officials. They are not only slaves
to the machine, they are slaves to the foreman,
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to the individual capitalist, to the plant
manager and to the entire Capitalist State.
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And this just makes it more bitter, sordid
and infuriating as they plainly declare that
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their sole ambition is profit !
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- So? How did it go 'Ma?
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- Good, I was alright. But they're out of everything in there.
You're reading, what is it?
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- The Communists' Manifesto
- Oh, why would you get in to that stuff.
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What they say is not all true. There's also good bosses.
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- 'Ma, I just started reading it, but from what
I understand, the problem is not that they're
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good or bad, it's that they live off our labour.
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- Here's the beer.
- Great!
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- No foam ?
- No foam.
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- Hi. What's up?
- There's a rumor saying there's gonna be suspensions. A lot.
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- Uh, it's just insane. Alright, we'll talk
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later because you-know-who are here, and they're just coming out of a reunion with the boss.
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- Yeah right, let's meet tomorow, same place
we met yesterday outside the plant.
- Alright.
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The proletariat grows through distinct phases.
As soon as it emerges it starts struggling against the bourgeoisie.
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Sometimes the workers
triumph, but it's short-lived. The only reliable
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outcome of these struggles is not the immediate
success, but the growing unity of the workers.
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All class struggle is a political struggle.
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Marx is Back
[based on the Communist Manifesto]
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